Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2)Curtis, George Ticknor
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Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2)
Curtis, George Ticknor
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
I requested Mr. Vail, some time ago, to send me the semi-weekly _Globe_
by mail from London. Although this may be expensive to the Government,
it cannot be avoided, and it is absolutely necessary that I should
receive it. It would seem, however, that the department has ceased
forwarding them to London. Will you be kind enough to give directions
that they shall be sent, in a separate parcel, by every Liverpool packet
from New York.
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Footnote 32:
It should be said here that the whole course of this negotiation shows
that the details of the treaty were entrusted largely to Mr.
Buchanan’s discretion. At that time, indeed, it was impracticable for
an American minister in Europe, and especially at St. Petersburg, to
be guided from day to day, or even from month to month, by the
Secretary of State. The Atlantic had not then been crossed by steam. I
have gone through with the minute discussions which took place between
Mr. Buchanan and the Russian Foreign Office, but have not deemed it
necessary to display them to my readers. They evince on his part a
thorough acquaintance with the whole subject, and a remarkable power
of carrying his points.
Footnote 33:
See _post_ an account of Mr. Buchanan’s conversation with Pozzo di
Borgo in Paris.
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CHAPTER IX.
1832–1833.
GENERAL JACKSON’S SECOND ELECTION—GRAVE PUBLIC EVENTS AT HOME REFLECTED
IN MR. BUCHANAN’S LETTERS FROM HIS FRIENDS—FEELINGS OF GENERAL
JACKSON TOWARDS THE “NULLIFIERS”—MOVEMENTS IN PENNSYLVANIA FOR
ELECTING MR. BUCHANAN TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES—HE MAKES A
JOURNEY TO MOSCOW—RETURN TO ST. PETERSBURG—DEATH OF HIS
MOTHER—SINGULAR INTERVIEW WITH THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS AT HIS AUDIENCE
OF LEAVE.
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