childhood with her uncle and his political friends, her observations in England and on the Continent, living with her uncle during his "Front Porch" campaign for the presidency, and her qualities of leadership and her devotion to Buchanan seem naturally and logical- ly to indicate that she would advise him

. He served with success and distinction as Secretary of State under President Polk, and was ap- pointed our minister to England by President Pierce. His was a long, honorable, and most useful career. Never in his long political life did the breath of scandal touch him. Only for his openly held and