Union, but he would be pretty safe in the Senate; at least a vast improvement over Brodhead. If Forney got the Senate, there would be no resistance to Jones in the Cabinet. After much prodding, and very late in the game, on January 7th, Buchanan wrote a guarded letter to Harrisburg, stating his personal

Franklin and Marshall College Library. ° George Tichnor Curtis, Life of James Buchanan, N. Y., 1883, I, pi 21. 10 Boston Herald, Aug. 28, 1883; Boston Post, Sept. 12, 1883, containing the refutation. �In those days Lancaster was a proud community which was still quite conscious of the fact that it had

" l James Buchanan, Big Wheel of the Railroads BY OLIVER S. SPROUT While much has been written concerning the early development of our railroads; two local men appear as having been slighted in the roles they filled as railroad builders. Their advancement of land transport techniques would have

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

Lieutenant-General, commander-in-chief of the Army. Courtesy the Library of Congress �At the same meeting, he, and Birch and Maj. Richard Claiborne, of Virginia, the Secretary, were appointed a committee of three to prepare a "corrected and fair copy of the Constitution."39 Thus, James Thackara took a major

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