James Buchanan actually said...

The day of evil may never come unless we shall rashly bring it upon ourselves.

In the meantime, who can foretell what would be the sufferings and privations of the people during its existence?

The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of the slavery question t...

no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until within a very recent per...