Public Dinner Declined by James Buchanan By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Monday evening, March 3rd, 1828, the Hon. James Buchanan, who represented this district in the Congress of the United States, arrived in Lancaster for a short stay. A number of his friends met at Stehman's tavern on the day

graphed and sent me a copy. By this kindly act, for which we are grateful, he has rendered most valuable service, for he has rescued the drawing from its obscurity, and has given to us the only out- line, so far as known, of the original building of St. James's church. LETTERS OF JAMES BUCHANAN By

could see you ; I can hear you and you sound fine. I have always wanted to come to Lancaster and I am going to do so sometime in the daylight and see the home of President Buchanan. I have a personal interest in the Buchanan home ; many years ago, my father was secretary to James Buchanan when he was

. Michael, John Getz, Michael Wimer and Henry Carpenter, Esquires." On Wednesday, July 4th, 1827, nearly two hundred citizens of Lancaster, friendly to the election of General Andrew Jackson to the presidential chair, assembled at a spring, on the property of Langdon Cheves, Esq., to celebrate the

James Buchanan During the Administrations of Lincoln and Johnson By PHILIP G. AUCHAMPAUGH, PH.D. Author of "James Buchanan and His Cabinet on the Eve of Secession," and "Robert Tyler, Southern Rights Champion, 1845-1861." CHAPTER I BUCHANAN VIEWS THE SCENE. 1861-1868. Buchanan's return to Wheatland

member of the Legislature. He died in Lancaster, July 28, 1830, and is buried �George Ross William Henry General Hand James Buchanan �in the Lancaster cemetery, according to the Congressional Direc- tory Biographies. JACOB HIBSHMAN. In the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1819, to March 3, 1821) the

interred in St. James's churchyard, Lancaster, Pa. 5 October, 19th, 1832. �some of the addresses delivered in the Senate of to-day. But all the while the poor Indian was being moved westward and his land confiscated. On May 1st, 1834, James Buchanan excited the ire of the Bethania editor by delivering a

. Lincoln's nomination and election. Lancaster's first citizen, James Buchanan, occupied the White House from 1857 to 1861. In writing from Washington, Septem- ber 13, 1860, to William Carpenter, Esq., of Lancaster, relative to business matters, Mr. Buchanan addressed him privately as follows : "Some knave or