. Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times. Some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration . - township; and Ican fitly quote the eloquent tribute of Charles Sumner: I see him now as I have so often seen him during life;his venerable form moves slowly with uncertain steps,but the gathered strength of years in his countenanceand the light of victory on his path. Politician, calcu-lator, time-server, stand aside; a Hero Statesman passesto his (Photo by Saylor, Lancaster, Pa.) JAMES BUCHANAN, 1865. LINCOLN AND BUCHANAN. IT is now more than thirty years sinc
. Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times. Some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration . - township; and Ican fitly quote the eloquent tribute of Charles Sumner: I see him now as I have so often seen him during life;his venerable form moves slowly with uncertain steps,but the gathered strength of years in his countenanceand the light of victory on his path. Politician, calcu-lator, time-server, stand aside; a Hero Statesman passesto his (Photo by Saylor, Lancaster, Pa.) JAMES BUCHANAN, 1865. LINCOLN AND BUCHANAN. IT is now more than thirty years since James Buchananretired from the office of President of the UnitedStates, but I doubt whether there is any one of our greatnational characters whose relations to our civil war areso widely and so flagrantly misunderstood. It will sur-prise many at this day when I say that Abraham Lincolntook up the reins of government just where James Bu-chanan left them, and continued precisely the same pol-icy toward the South that Buchanan had inaugurated,until the Southern leaders committed the suicidal act offiring upon Fort Sumter. From the time that Buchan-ans original Cabinet was disrupted on the sectionalissues that culminated in armed rebellion, the adminis-tration of Buchanan was not only thoroughh loyal tothe preservation of the Union, but it fixed the policythat Lincoln accepted, and from which he took nomarked departure until actual war came upon is not the common a
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