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

character; and no assemblage of American people, however mingled in years and creed and political be- lief, should ever fail or falter when called upon to do homage to his blessed memory. To have been either the success- ful captain in a great war or master in a great political revolution would merit "fame

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