...States, unwilling to bequeath a war to his successor, he could only ascribe the present situation to the "long-continued and intemperate interference of...with the question of slavery in the Southern States," and beg the revolters to await some overt act on the part of the Presidentelect to justify their action....

...we wuz naf lly right." President Buchanan's message of the first Monday of December, 1860, declared "the long-continued and intemperate interference of...with the question of slavery in the Southern States " had at last produced its natural effect ; disunion was impending, and if those states could not obtain...

...States, unwilling to bequeath a war to his successor, he could only ascribe the present situation to the "long-continued and intemperate interference of...with the question of slavery in the Southern States," and beg the revolters to await some overt act on the part of the Presidentelect to justify their action....

...Buchanan, see GT Curtis, Life of Jama Buchanan. — Bibliography as in No. 63 above. WHY is it ... that discontent now so extensively prevails, and the...these blessings is threatened with destruction? The long continued and intemperate interference of the northern people with the question of slavery in...

...day. Extract from President Buchanan's message, December 3d, 1860: " Why is it, then, that discontent so extensively prevails, and the Union of the States,...these blessings, is threatened with destruction? The long continued and intemperate interference of the Northern people with the question of slavery in...

...it wants to." When the secession movement began he had words of blame only for the Abolitionists. " The long-continued and intemperate interference of...with the question of slavery in the Southern States," he said, " has at length produced its natural effects." The truth is, his whole prejudices were with...

...a lesson of what may happen. In his Fourth Annual Message (page 3157) the President announces that "The long-continued and intemperate interference of...Southern States has at length produced its natural effect. The different sections of the Union are now arrayed against each other, and the time has arrived,...

...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...these blessings is threatened with destruction? The long continued and intemperate interference of the northern people with the question of slavery in...

...lamented the decay of the prosperity of the Union, and its threatened destruction, which he attributed to "the long-continued and intemperate interference of...the Northern people with the question of slavery." He said that they had been agitating in every way since 1835, and causing quarrels in Congress. The...

...cautious Republicans took occasion to throw the blame where Buchanan threw it in his annual message, upon the "long-continued and intemperate interference of...with the question of slavery in the Southern States." In Congress the compromiser was in evidence. The responsibility for the failure of Congress to repeat...