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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3751027, member: 101855"]This Buchanan piece was issued many years after the Civil War and after he left office. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the last months of his presidency, seven states left the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. Buchanan opined that their actions were illegal, but that the remaining states had no legal powers to force them to return to the Union. Buchanan did not want to offend the secessionists. </p><p><br /></p><p>When Fort Sumner was under siege, Buchanan sent a privately owned relief ship to aid it. The Confederates fired on the ship, forcing it to withdraw. Buchanan would go no further because he did not want to upset the secessionists. </p><p><br /></p><p>In short, Buchanan did nothing to restore the Union and even turned a blind eye when Southerners were taking arms from the Union stores, in preparation for fighting the Union. Buchanan was a northern man (from Pennsylvania) who supported the position of the Confederacy. That was how he got the Democratic Party nomination is 1856. His predecessor, Franklin Pierce, who was from New Hampshire, took the same position. Both of them watched the country drift toward the Civil War,.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3751027, member: 101855"]This Buchanan piece was issued many years after the Civil War and after he left office. In the last months of his presidency, seven states left the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. Buchanan opined that their actions were illegal, but that the remaining states had no legal powers to force them to return to the Union. Buchanan did not want to offend the secessionists. When Fort Sumner was under siege, Buchanan sent a privately owned relief ship to aid it. The Confederates fired on the ship, forcing it to withdraw. Buchanan would go no further because he did not want to upset the secessionists. In short, Buchanan did nothing to restore the Union and even turned a blind eye when Southerners were taking arms from the Union stores, in preparation for fighting the Union. Buchanan was a northern man (from Pennsylvania) who supported the position of the Confederacy. That was how he got the Democratic Party nomination is 1856. His predecessor, Franklin Pierce, who was from New Hampshire, took the same position. Both of them watched the country drift toward the Civil War,.[/QUOTE]
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