. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ieces byits defeat in 1852, and had now entirely dis-appeared, t The canvass was unusually was the principal question in dispute. Party ties had little influence uponmen. The sentiment of the nation at largehad been outraged by the repeal of the Mis-souri Compromise, and thousands of Demo-crats, desiring to rebuke their party for itscourse in bringing about this repeal, unitedwith the Republican party, which declaredas its leading principle t
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ieces byits defeat in 1852, and had now entirely dis-appeared, t The canvass was unusually was the principal question in dispute. Party ties had little influence uponmen. The sentiment of the nation at largehad been outraged by the repeal of the Mis-souri Compromise, and thousands of Demo-crats, desiring to rebuke their party for itscourse in bringing about this repeal, unitedwith the Republican party, which declaredas its leading principle that it was both theright and the duty of Congress to prohibit inthe Territories those twin relics of barbar-ism—polygamy and slavery. The elections resulted in the triumph ofJames Buchanan, the candidate of the Dem-ocratic party. Mr. Buchanan received 174electoral votes to 114 cast for a majority of the American peoplesustained the action of the Democratic party,the significant fact remained that 1,341,264of the voters of the country had recordedtheir condemnation of it by casting theirvotes for Fremont and CHAKfER XLThe Administration of James Buchanan. Inauguration of Mr Buchanan—The Mormon Rebellion—The Financial Crisis of 1857—Laying of the Atlantic Telegraphic Cable—Minnesota Admitted Into the Union—-The San Juan Affair—Admission of Oregon Into the Union—The Kansas Question—The Lecompton Constitution—Its Defeat—The Wyandotte Constitution—Admission of Kan»as Into the Union—The John Brown Raid—Prompt Action of the Government—Brown and His Companions Surrendered to the State of Virginia—Their Trial and Execution—Presidential Campaign of t86o—Rupture of the Dem.,cratic Party—Abraham Lincoln Elected President of the United States—Secession of South Carolina—Reasons fo7this Act—Secession of the Other Cotton States—Major Anderson Occupies Fort Sumter—^Trying Position of the General Government—Course of Mr.
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