...the day after this fashion : " Why is it, then, that discontent now so extensively prevails, and tho Union of the States, which is the source of all these blessings, is threatened with destruction? Tho long-continued and intemperate interference of the Northern people with the question of Slavery...

...arguments of the Southern radicals. Buchanan, however, blamed the crisis entirely upon the 'long continued and intemperate interference of the Northern people with the question of slavery." The danger, he said, did not "proceed solely from the claim on the part of Congress or the territorial...

...presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done, until within a very recent period. Why is it, then, that discontent now so extensively...in the Southern States has at length produced its natural effects. The different sections of the Union are now arrayed against each other, aud the time...

...deep of winter had come the somewhat bewildered voice of President Buchanan asking, "Why is it ... that discontent now so extensively prevails, and the...the source of all these blessings is threatened with destruction?"3 Spiritually and morally, the city, indeed the nation, were out of tune, cacophonous,...

...that held the Union together. December 186o, in which Buchanan also blamed the North for the crisis: "The longcontinued and intemperate interference of...in the Southern States has at length produced its natural effects. The different sections of the Union are now arrayed against each other." Buchanan,...

...electoral loss, to promote a nationkeeping plan. Buchanan began by identifying the problem. "Why is it ... that discontent now so extensively prevails, and the Union of the States, which is the source of all ... blessings, is threatened with destruction?," the president asked. He had a simple answer. "The...

...presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until within a very recent period. Why is it, then, that discontent now so extensively...in the Southern States has at length produced its natural effect- The different sections of the Union are now arrayed against each other, and the time...

...as an appeal for the Union, his message resolved nothing and instead provoked widespread anger. To the "long-continued and intemperate interference of...with the question of slavery in the Southern States," he assigned sole responsibility for the crisis. Twenty-five years of such "agitation" had fed disunion...

...tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done. . . . Why is it then that discontent now so extensively prevails, and the union of these States, which is the source of all these blessings, is threatened with destruction?"25 His answer...

...presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until within a very recent period. Why is it, then, that discontent now so extensively...in the Southern States has at length produced its natural effects. The different sections of the Union are now arrayed against each other, and the time...