In all human probability James Buchanan will be the last President of the United States. One of the sovereign states of the Union has already declared the compact broken, and her allegiance dissolved.
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"In all human probability James Buchanan will be the last President of the United States. One of the sovereign states of the Union has already declared the compact broken, and her allegiance dissolved."
A Democratic paper in Wisconsin, a thousand miles from Charleston, watching the country come apart and concluding the Union is finished — Buchanan will be its last President. Written the day Alabama seceded (Mississippi and Florida had gone Jan 9–10); by month's end six states were out. Verified verbatim against the AHA "Sixteen Months."