. Sickles visited Buchanan at Wheat- land in February 1857, just before Buchanan's inauguration as Pres- ident. As late as February 22, 1861, less than two weeks before the end of the Buchanan Administration, Sickles still had influence on the President. On that day he obtained from Buchanan a reversal of a

exhibited at Wheatland. The model is approximately thirty inches high. Schuler had already become a distinguished sculptor before he started work on the Buchanan Memorial, which, upon completion, represented his mature style. Born in Morange, Lorraine, Germany in 1874 he was brought to the United States in

preacher in Mercersburg on a first day had deprecated the war with England as a judgment and calamity. Whatever glory attached to Mr. Buchanan's early career—and it was certainly an illustrious one—belongs wholly to Lancaster county. None of it, we are confident, is to be shared by the "dark and bloody