Lives of the presidents of the United States of America, from Washington to the present time .. . ed to do any thing, either by voice or pen, tostrengthen the hands of the National Governmeiit. He con-tinued to reside in Concord until the time of his death, whichoccured in October, 1869. He was one of the most genial andsocial of men, an honored communicant of the Episcopal Church,and one of the kindest of neighbors. Generous to a fault, hecontributed liberally of his moderate means for the alleviationof suffering and want, and many of his townspeople were oftengladdened by his material bounty
Lives of the presidents of the United States of America, from Washington to the present time .. . ed to do any thing, either by voice or pen, tostrengthen the hands of the National Governmeiit. He con-tinued to reside in Concord until the time of his death, whichoccured in October, 1869. He was one of the most genial andsocial of men, an honored communicant of the Episcopal Church,and one of the kindest of neighbors. Generous to a fault, hecontributed liberally of his moderate means for the alleviationof suffering and want, and many of his townspeople were oftengladdened by his material bounty. UHaPTER XV. JAMES BUCHANAN. His Childhoods Home. — Devotion to Study. — Scholarship, and Purity of Character. — Con*gressional Career. — Political Views. — Secretary of State. — Minister to the Court of St.•Tames. — Ostend Manifesto.—Elected to the Presidency. — The New-Haven Corre-spondence. — Disasters of his Administration. — Retirement. James Buchanan, the fifteenth President of the United States,was born in a small frontier town, at the foot of the eastern ridge. 11)I;N< i; ol- JAMliS ulchanan. of the Alleghanies, in Franklin County, Penn., on the 23d ofApril, 1791. The place where the humble cabin of his fatherstood was called Stony Batter. It was a wild and romantic spotin a gorge of the mountains, witli towering summits rising grandly 352
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