Buchanan became President Polk's Secretary of State and Cameron succeeded him as one of the United States Sena- tors from Pennsylvania, embarking on an active political career as a Democrat. He advocated the protective tariff, but failed re-election in 1851.7 However, in 1857, Comeron's successful

Grant's cabinet- This was apparently a decisive factor, together with the rapid dissolution of the Curtin clique, in Grant's decision to cast his political fortunes in Pennsylvania with Simon Cameron. See the Philadelphia Bulletin, in the Harrisburg Patriot, March 1, 1869; and Henry Cooke to Jay Cooke, 10

. An elder Barnett kept the "Cat," the old stone tavern on the west side of Prince, near James. His son, Henry L. Barnett, a retired railroad engineer, who had kept the "North American," became proprietor of the Cadwell (and Hiester) house, assisted by his brother, Joseph, and his sisters, Ann and