archives and property from Corydon, the then capital, to Indianapolis, and lived in Indianapolis until his death, about 1855. Aster leaving the office os treas- urer he helped to organize the State Bank os Indiana, and was its presi- dent sor many years, and during the later years os his connection with

James Hopkins and William Jenkins on that committee was asso- ciated James Buchanan. Mr. Buchanan in his long public ca- reer more than once admitted that he had in later years changed some of the political views he entertained in his youth. Thus he recanted the first part of his memorable 1815 Fourth

county, Ky., in 1813, "changed the whole course of Ameri- can history." Briefly stated, the nar- rative goes,in that year the late James Buchanan, afterwards President, lo- cated at Elizabethtown,Hardin county, Ky., to practice law, his choice being directed by the fact that his father owned a tract of

by many of them remaining residents and owners of real estate in that lo- cality ever since. Before the Phila- delphia turnpike—the oldest road of its kind in the country—was built, Jasper Yeates, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, had large land ownings in common with the

right to regulate its own domestic institutions; and that right was expressly recognized and guaranteed even by the Republican party and by Abraham Lincoln long after the outbreak of the Civil War. The slavery questions upon which political parties differed up to 1851 were not disputes as to the rights

to any office. He kept himself well informed as to the prin- ciples of the different political parties, and upon all the current topics of the day. Mr. Thomas Scanlan, one of Mr. Brown's teachers in the public school, told me James Scott Brown was the brightest pupil he ever had. Mr. Brown told me he