Show 33 i iTHE Ad fe THE BUCHANAN ELECTED T Today day is la tho the seventy-second seventy anniversary an- an nI of or tho the election eJection of or James s Buchanan to the presidency of ot tho the United 1 States on on November 14 1857 r The electoral vote volo was vas r I Bu Buchanan Buchanan Bu- Bu chanan 1701 f for John C C. C. C l Yc 1 emont e remont re- re mont i 11 for tor J Fillmore 8 S Buchanan had had tho the vote oto of or every lr state except Pt Maryland which went for or Fill Fill- more The otc vote also bo gave e 1 him In Inci In- In ci diana lana Illinois Pennsylvania and New Ne Jersey In Jn the tho executive chair Bu Buchanan Eu- Eu chanan was apparently subservient cut ent to southern rn politicians and al I aJ lowed their theft threats of oC to Influence his actions Alter After Lincoln's Lincoln's Lin Lin- coln's colas election Buchanan was wan more mora than ever Over anxious to stifle HUrtO the slavery di discussion cuelon and auth In iii his Jils last 0 to congress pointedly charged the north with wIll having brought about the existing crisis b by a 11 a. a discussion which lied had produced Its Its' malign Influence ore ion the slaves C and Inspired d them with a a. vague Idea of ot freedom While that the states B had M no no right to dl lie ho I said that H i the n Uon no power ponce to prevent I IL |