, 1833-1921. Other Author(s): Ellmaker, Amos, 1787-1851. Title: Politics 75 years ago / F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt. D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Ellmaker, Amos, 1787-1851. Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. United States--Politics and government--1783-1865. Publisher

great contempt. Buchanan was a "Doughface" President, meaning that he was a Northerner friendly to Southern grace, institutions, and policy; indeed. Stevens viewed Buchanan as the last Southern Presiednt of the United States and almost a traitor. Buchanan was a strict constitutional construction- alist

; therefore, if the individual was convicted there would be nothing to prevent the other voters of a State from electing representatives to Con- gress, especially if the North held that the Southern States would not secede from the Union. This stand would make his ground tenable, that the United States

."—Jefferson Davis, in United States Senate, February 13, 1850. Preliminary Remarks in Extenuation of the Imperfections of the Paper. The Hon. James Bryce, in his Hls- tory of the Holy Roman Empire, p. 50, says: "The interest of history lies not least in this, that it shows us how men hav at different times

referring to the absence of Stevens' will, the document, more or less mutilated, was located, and returned to the office of Register of Wills, and with the will of James Buchanan, was placed in a locked compartment in the safe. �Stevens when the latter told of the burning of the furnaces con- firms the