preferred to remain in the Sen- ate. Both had hopes of 'succeeding Buck in the White House. As an antidote for northern suspicion, Buchanan wanted in a post of high responsibility the most outspoken southern unionist he could find; Howell Cobb of Georgia was that man. He had stumped all through the north

Lancaster in 1845 to become assistant surveyor at the port in Philadelphia under an appointment from President James K. Polk, the first of five consecutive presidents under whose administrations he would hold office. But once in Philadelphia it was not too long before Forney was back in a newspaper office

of guidance. (6) Adam Diller, who had captained a company of militia, marching in the same regiment as had James Buchanan, to the defense of Baltimore, in 1814, lived in Lancaster, and had served as sheriff of the county from 1828 through 1830. It is unlikely that the one-hundred-and-twenty-foot

political canard. James Gordon Bennett,s New Y ork Herald reported : "It is said that Mr. Bu- chanan, in the flower of his manhood, was crossed in his first love, and never had the courage to look after another. It is said that the young lady, driven to despair by the despotic course of a hard-hearted