The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . me. Themen from the Northern States soon had a majority, andasked admission to the Union. The bloody feud in Kan-sas had by this time produced the greatest excitementin Congress and convulsed the whole country. While the people were in this state of passionateexcitement about the struggle in Kansas, the presidentialcanvass of 1856 came on. The Democrats nominatedJames Buchanan, of Pennsylvania;the new Republican party nomi-nated John C. Fremont, who hadbecome known as a daring explorerin the Western plains, and wh
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . me. Themen from the Northern States soon had a majority, andasked admission to the Union. The bloody feud in Kan-sas had by this time produced the greatest excitementin Congress and convulsed the whole country. While the people were in this state of passionateexcitement about the struggle in Kansas, the presidentialcanvass of 1856 came on. The Democrats nominatedJames Buchanan, of Pennsylvania;the new Republican party nomi-nated John C. Fremont, who hadbecome known as a daring explorerin the Western plains, and who hadtaken part in the conquest of Cali-fornia. The American, or Know-nothing, party nominated ex-Presi-dent Millard Fillmore. Buchanan,the Democratic candidate, was elect-ed. Fillmore got but eight electo-ral votes, Fremont one hundred andfourteen, and Buchanan one hundred and seventy-four. The election showed that the peoplewere interested in nothing but the settlement of theslavery question. No presidential election had everbefore turned wholly or chiefly on this 304 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Sketch of James Buchanan, the fifteenth President, was born in Pennsylvania in 1791. He was a successful lawyer, amember of Congress, United States minister to Russia,member of the Senate, and Secretary of State in theCabinet of President Polk. He was minister to Englandduring the administration of Pierce. In 1854 he was oneof the signers of a document known as the OstendManifesto, by which three foreign ambassadors of theUnited States assembled at Ostend, in Belgium, threat-ened that their Government would seize the island ofCuba by force if it could not be purchased from lived until 1868. Dissolution of the The division of parties on the slavery question caused Union feared. rii !••• riTT- t^ re men to forebode a division of the Union, livery effortto settle the question once for all had failed. The Mis-souri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, the
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