thought of themselves as possibilities now pressed their claims through their friends, and sectionalism, which it was Buchanan's main object to eliminate by his Cabinet selections, ran wild. Every newspaper spread speculation and built false hopes or �JOHN W. FORNEY JOHN ADAMS APPLETON Forney (1817-1881

of 1834, the new bridge at Columbia was opened for traffic, as previously mentioned; with Mr. Buchanan being elected the next month to the United States Senate, where he was destined to serve until 1845. With a pair of men like Messrs. Buchanan and Cameron at the throttle of the Mount Joy Road, the

author of, among other things, The Story of Wheatland and Pennsylvania Politics, 1817-1832. The present paper, which grew out of a biography of Buchanan which Dr. Klein i's now writing, was read at the annual dinner of the Pennsylvania Historical Association, Lan- caster, October 23, 1953. 1 Review by