retirement from the office of Collector of the Port of Philadelphia. Throughout his entire life he was active in political affairs and as the mentor of James Buchanan, he has been given prime credit for putting Mr. Buchanan in the White House. Later, differences arose between him and Buchanan and he became

abolitionists of dividing the party and defeating Johnston, calling for a universal return to conservative "Old Guard principles."' The Democrats took pleasure in announc- ing that Johnston's defeat would finally disintegrate the Whig party into a number of factional interests. James Buchanan, a native of

, 1876 The house of Jacob Lindemuth in Manheim is today the Washing- ton House on Market Square. "JAMES BLACK, ESQ. of this city at the Prohibition State com- mittee meeting in Philadelphia yesterday was chosen as a Presidential Elector for the Ninth District." —September 6, 1876 Four years previous