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BUCHANAN, JAMES

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BUCHANAN, JAMES
(1791 - 1868) Fifteenth President of the United States whose hands-off attitude toward states' rights directly contributed to the start of the Civil War. A.L.S. 1p. 8vo., Wheatland, June 16, 1862, in part: ""àWill you have the goodness to deliver the enclosed letters to Lord Lyons? The one addressed to the Prince of Wales is an acknowledgement of the receipt of his Portrait sent to me, as a mark of his ""grateful recollection of the hospitable reception & agreeable visit at the White Houseà"" Very good.