Show z X X X X X X z X X rs X X X x z z x X X X X X x X i President in n P Power in in n Troublous Times Trine S James Buchanan n as ns fifteenth dent of the United States Stales occupied the Will to House when the time questions of ot slavery sla and states rights were dangerously dangerously dan dan- fermenting Ills his administration ion tion from 1857 to saw the pi prelude prel- prel el elude ude to the Civil war Buchanan was born April 23 1701 1711 1 As s a n Penns Pennsylvanian he hc disapproved of or slaYer slavery but being a strict constitutionalist constitution constitution- alist and a n Democrat he held to om- om convictions He publicly denied I the time right of secession an and refused to treat South Carolina representatives as foreign n delegates ills His is chief difficulty was an unsympathetic unsympathetic pathetic congress The Dred Scott decision and John JohnBrown's JohnBrown's Browns Brown's raid on Harpers Harper's Ferry so 60 stirred the nation nution during his administration adminis adminis- administration that those events c somewhat submerged ed his diplomatic accomplishments accomplish ments of settling the question of British British Brit Brit- ish dominion In Central America and by stopping Great Britain's right of ot search on American ships The he first Atlantic cable was laid in Buchanan's administration Uon Before he lie died lied June Tunc 1 an nn wrote his own vindication of ot his bin a administrative o policies Exchange |