Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2)

CHAPTER XV.

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1860—November.

Election of President Lincoln—The Secession of South 315 Carolina—Nature of the Doctrine of Secession—President Buchanan prepares to encounter the Secession Movement—Distinction between making War on a State and enforcing the Laws of the United States