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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3412129, member: 101855"]Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan helped lead this country to the Civil War. As one of my dealer friends described them at the Winter FUN show, they were both disasters. We were talking about the best president of the 1850s, and our conclusion was, get this, Millard Filmore. Millard at least tried to fix things with the Compromise of 1850.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't think that any president could have solved the Civil War issues peacefully. The South had a huge investment in their slaves, and they were not about to give them up, but Pierce and Buchanan made things worse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pierce supported the purchase of Cuba so that it could be turned into another slave state. If Spain refused to sell it, he was ready to go to war to take it. Instead of containing slavery, he wanted to expand it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pierce also supported William Walker, the South American “filibusterer,” who was looking to set himself up as a dictator in South American countries. Once he was in control, he was going to turn them into slave states with eye toward perhaps joining the Union down the road.</p><p><br /></p><p>Buchanan thought he had the slavery question settled with the Dred Scott Decision. He interfered with the Supreme Court to help push it along. Dred Scott declared that African-Americans were not citizens and had no right to bring suits in the American court system. It further ruled that slave holders had the right to take their slaves to any state the chose and keep them as slaves, even in states that had outlawed slavery. It was one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in history.</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s hard to say many good things about Pierce and Buchanan presidencies. That why they are rated at the bottom.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bringing out the fact that Pierce would have probably been a great drinking buddy was one of the better things I could say about him. He had a very pliable personality and has been rated as the most handsome president by some.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, his home life had to have been awful. After their last surviving child died in a train acident before their eyes, his wife lost her mind and became a recluse in the upstairs of the White House. That would have been enough to drive many men to drink. But you need to look at the big picture and what these two incompetent presidents met to the history of our country. Over 600,000 soldiers died in the Civil War, and it’s hard to put rose colored glasses on that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3412129, member: 101855"]Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan helped lead this country to the Civil War. As one of my dealer friends described them at the Winter FUN show, they were both disasters. We were talking about the best president of the 1850s, and our conclusion was, get this, Millard Filmore. Millard at least tried to fix things with the Compromise of 1850. I don't think that any president could have solved the Civil War issues peacefully. The South had a huge investment in their slaves, and they were not about to give them up, but Pierce and Buchanan made things worse. Pierce supported the purchase of Cuba so that it could be turned into another slave state. If Spain refused to sell it, he was ready to go to war to take it. Instead of containing slavery, he wanted to expand it. Pierce also supported William Walker, the South American “filibusterer,” who was looking to set himself up as a dictator in South American countries. Once he was in control, he was going to turn them into slave states with eye toward perhaps joining the Union down the road. Buchanan thought he had the slavery question settled with the Dred Scott Decision. He interfered with the Supreme Court to help push it along. Dred Scott declared that African-Americans were not citizens and had no right to bring suits in the American court system. It further ruled that slave holders had the right to take their slaves to any state the chose and keep them as slaves, even in states that had outlawed slavery. It was one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in history. It’s hard to say many good things about Pierce and Buchanan presidencies. That why they are rated at the bottom. Bringing out the fact that Pierce would have probably been a great drinking buddy was one of the better things I could say about him. He had a very pliable personality and has been rated as the most handsome president by some. Yes, his home life had to have been awful. After their last surviving child died in a train acident before their eyes, his wife lost her mind and became a recluse in the upstairs of the White House. That would have been enough to drive many men to drink. But you need to look at the big picture and what these two incompetent presidents met to the history of our country. Over 600,000 soldiers died in the Civil War, and it’s hard to put rose colored glasses on that.[/QUOTE]
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