Powell and Emanuel Car- penter, its Assessors. As candidates from which the Governor should se- lect a Sheriff the county returned Rob- ert Buchanan and James Galbraith; �and as candidates for Coroner Joshua Lowe and William Caldwell; and the Governor selected Buchanan for Sher- iff and Lowe for Coroner

—Horace Greeley. Here, too, our alert forefathers quickly took up the news of the selection in national convention of a Presidential nominee, and held a great monster ratification of the nomination, before any other section of the country awoke—the ratification of the Presidential nomi- nation of William

James Hopkins and William Jenkins on that committee was asso- ciated James Buchanan. Mr. Buchanan in his long public ca- reer more than once admitted that he had in later years changed some of the political views he entertained in his youth. Thus he recanted the first part of his memorable 1815 Fourth