Portrait and biographical album of Washtenaw County, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . M, Buchanan looked on in listless de paThe ebel flog was raised ,n Charleston • Fort Sunrpterwas ; our forts, navy-yards and nrse.^alswere seized ; our depots of military stores were p ; and our custom-houses and post-ofiices Wereappropriated by the rebels. The energy of the rebels, and the imbecility of ourExecutive, were alike marvelous
Portrait and biographical album of Washtenaw County, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . M, Buchanan looked on in listless de paThe ebel flog was raised ,n Charleston • Fort Sunrpterwas ; our forts, navy-yards and nrse.^alswere seized ; our depots of military stores were p ; and our custom-houses and post-ofiices Wereappropriated by the rebels. The energy of the rebels, and the imbecility of ourExecutive, were alike marvelous. The Nation lookedon in agon>^ waiting for the slow weeks to glide ^and close the administration, so terrible in its At length the long-looked-for hour of deliver-scepteT ^^ L™ was to receive the cerSnlvH??, °- ^^^^ Buchanan wascertainly the most calamitous our country has ex-perienced. H,s best friends cannot recJll it whhpleasure And still more deplorable it is for hi fan in that dreadful conflic which rolled it binoof flame and blood over our whole land, no word camefrom his his wish thatour countrvsbnniier should tnumph over the flag of the rebe ioV H^ d,ed at his Wheatland retrea^ June i, 868. c^ Q^^QC^ ^^T^^ SIXTEENTH FliES/DEdJ-T. 79
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