Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 4, 1920, Page 4

(Copyright, 1930, by James Morsan.) ADRIFT IN A STORM March 8, Dred Scott de- ~-olelotl, ‘l-l—Aun- 8, ccmplnh of At fantia’ cable. = Oct. 16, John Brown's rald, 1801=Fob. 4, the Southern Con- federacy formed. March- 4, Buchanan retired from the presidency. 1868=June_1, died at Wheat- land, Pa, aged seventy- seven, ; EOAUSE -the drama. of history, like that of the theater, must ?vé 1ts: heroes and ' villalns, James uchanan has been palated all black ip the opéning scene of the Clvil war, 6aded” down” with all ‘the weaknesses a sins-of his generation and ban- ed forever info the wilderness. Any- d can see now, with the ald of hind- :l;ht, what Buchanan should have one, but not what he could have done: The North itself; in the bewlldering winter of 180061 ‘was far " from that secession could or should be stopped by force. “Let the Union slide,” the :bolltlonml sald, “Let the _ ‘erring brethren go,” said Horace Gree- ley. ~ “Wayward sisters, depart in peace,” General Scott: would bave nid to the seceding states. In common with the nolltlclans of his fast - vanishing ‘time Buchanan clung to the {dea that.freedom rather than slavery was to blame for all the trouble. He had not gone with Doug- Ias and the northern wing of the di- vided Democrats in the campaign ef 1860, but had sided with the southern- ers and voted for Breckinridge. When the first state seceded he was already within ten weeks: of the end of his term, with a hostile congress In front of him and behind him .a country as irresolute-as himself. As he saw the Union g..to pleces he hoped on that it could be patched together again ! by “anbthef ‘old-faskionéd ‘com- promise. Al the-:while-there::were southern ‘members of his cabinet who were ;staying in Washington only- to ship federal war. supplies south. oud to ald’ip’the preparatidns’ tm dmrcy- ing the gdvernment, ' . Edwin M. StAutsn of .Ohio, llthongh a _Breckinridge: :Democrat, arned-Buchanan: “You @ véicano. The gtound I8 |: nd “under you and| ready it6 explode, and without prompt “and efiérgetic action you-will be-the 1ast prestlient of the United States.” - “Mr; ‘Stanton,” pleaded the feeble ‘old man, “for God’s sake‘cerne in ‘and| help me.” The!first day that Sunton took his seat at:iBuchanan’s cabinet ‘table he secretary of war, Floyd of hat he “ought to be hanged > Work. © Harrlet Lane. on & ganows higher than Haman's” for having ordered Major Anderson, with: out the knowledge of the president, to stay ‘in a defenseless old fort at Cherleston harbor ‘Instead . of -trans- ferring himself to Fort Sumter, as.the major had -done in deflance of: orders. Before the middle of January the cabinet wasreorganized -and Buehanan was surrounded by stanch Union men, who swept him along-at a pace which sometimes: Teft him: breathless. The new secretary of the treasury, John A. Dix, quietly reported one day that he had ‘sent to New Orleans his now famous message: “If ‘any man at- tempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on the spot.” 4 “Did you™ write such a letter as that?” Buchanan exclaimed. “No,” Dix replied; “I telegruphed 1t Had Buchanan been-a man- 6f iron lnatead of pntty. probably he could have done no good in_ that chaotic interregnum between the election and inauguration of his-successor. If he had taken any step which should haye hastened Virginia. and Maryland into revolt there would have been no na- tional capital on March 4, 1861, The retiring _president would only .have made heavier, perhaps impossible, the task which he wearily laid upon & stouter soul“when he transterred the presidency. .to -Lincoln and sadly -tot- tered into the shadows. 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