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James Buchanan: The host of...

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The host of contractors, speculators, stockjobbers and lobby members which haunt the halls of Congress, all dersious . . . to get their arm into the public treasury, are sufficient to alarm every friend of this country. Their progress must be arrested.

Source: Letter to Franklin Pierce, 1852.
-- James Buchanan, (Apr 23 1791-1868), US president (15th); As the 15th U.S. president, 1857-61, he tried, but failed, to find a compromise in the conflict between the North and the South.


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