March 4, 1857, was a cool, breezy day in Washington, D.C. Pennsylvanian James Buchanan had been elected the 15th President of the United States with one overriding mandate: keep the United States together.
Buchanan, a bachelor and career politician, was succeeding the hapless, often intoxicated Franklin Pierce, who allowed the country to fall into disarray over slavery. Buchanan was supposed to fix that.
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