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BUCHANAN, JAMES, President. Autograph letter signed in full as Secretary of State, to Col. Reah Frazer of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C., 11 May 1846. 2 full pages, 4to, integral blank with recipient's docket. The future President explains at length why he cannot use his influence on behalf of a young man who wants to be appointed a cadet at West Point Military Academy. Buchanan has "made inquiry into the regulations of the War Department, and finds, that they place it wholly out of my power to render him any service. The practice, of appointing cadets, on the nomination of the member of Congress representing the district, has not been deviated from once in fifteen years...So sacred is this rule regarded by the Secy. of War [William Marcy] that he would not even make an appointment in the absence of such recommendation....There will be no vacancy in the Lancaster district before February 1847 [and]..."no possible influence which I could bring to bear would serve to take the nomination out of the hands of a member of Congress....The reason of the rule is that West Point may not become a political Institution but receive the support of both parties as a National one...."

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BUCHANAN, JAMES, President. Autograph letter signed in full as Secretary of State, to Col. Reah Frazer of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C., 11 May 1846. 2 full pages, 4to, integral blank with recipient's docket. The future President explains at length why he cannot use his influence on behalf of a young man who wants to be appointed a cadet at West Point Military Academy. Buchanan has "made inquiry into the regulations of the War Department, and finds, that they place it wholly out of my power to render him any service. The practice, of appointing cadets, on the nomination of the member of Congress representing the district, has not been deviated from once in fifteen years...So sacred is this rule regarded by the Secy. of War [William Marcy] that he would not even make an appointment in the absence of such recommendation....There will be no vacancy in the Lancaster district before February 1847 [and]..."no possible influence which I could bring to bear would serve to take the nomination out of the hands of a member of Congress....The reason of the rule is that West Point may not become a political Institution but receive the support of both parties as a National one...."