encouragement to the secessionist extremists who formed the main opposition to Buchanan. This data lay on Buchanan's desk in his study at Wheatland. From it he needed to find, by the proper dispensation of office and political favor, a recipe to cement the national Democrats and national Whigs into a single

. 16 E. C. Watmough : Scribblings and Sketches, Phila., 1844, p. 27. �Hopkins was also an iron-master, owner of Conowingo Furnace near the Buck Tavern. James Buchanan began to study law in his office in the fall of 1809, and became a favored protege of the old gentleman. The town soon, and not

made them famous had not their political errors served to overshadow their other successes. The men referred to are the Fifteenth President of our Nation, the Honorable James Buchanan; and a Secretary of War under Mr. Buchanan's successor, the Honorable Simon Cameron. A unique pair indeed. Mr. Buchanan

penned those lines. James Logan and Andrew Hamilton were two subtle minds, mutually appreciative, matching wits for decades ... but that is another story. *February 6, 1955. L. L. B. means Logan Letter Book. All manuscripts referred to are to be found in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania unless

prolong the session at ½ eleven at night , , , received for my services, $350."61 On Dec, 9, 1810, James Thackara returned unhappily from Lancaster, his fourth term having been voted down, �Although Thackara never returned to Lancaster again in a political office (the state capital was moved to Harrisburg

characteristic which appears to have stuck with him throughout his life. He jumped into things with both feet. He was only twenty years old and writing his first letter to the then U. S. Senator James Buchanan. But that did not stop Forney from recommending another young man for a position. The letter also would