BUCHANAN, JAMES, President. Two autograph letters signed in full as Senator to Senator Arnold Plumer, Bedford Springs, 7 August 1844 and n.d., Together 5 pages, folio and 4to, the second letter with 1 1/2 in. strip at top torn away with loss of several lines on verso, and old tape repairs along one tear, the other letter frayed at edges. Unusually outspoken commentary on the issues of the Presidential election of 1844 (which pitted Polk against Clay) and the Nullification controvery of Jackson's era: "The Whigs seem to have abandoned all other questions...& are devoting themselves with the energy of despair to the Tariff [of 1842]....and the indiscretion & folly of our Southern Democratic friends furnish them with ammunition. I have just read with sorrow the address of the Charlottesville (Va) Convention against the present Tariff & in favor of the Compromise....We are destined to witness greater difficulties on this question than we passed through in 1832 & 1833. Had M. Clay let General Jackson alone he would then have settled the question...Are you aware of the fact, that the Nullification Convention of South Carolina, not M. Clay, are substantially the authors of the Compromise? ...I shall make a quotation for you from General Jackson's Message...He says...'they are willing to make a large offering to preserve the Union [six lines follow]...' Is this not the very spirit & essence of the Compromise Act? What said Old Hickory...? [another quotation follows]...Thus Jackson and the South Carolina Convention were at issue when M. Clay interposed: & the consequence is that we shall have to fight the same battle over again with much greater odds against us...The great question to be determined in the Presidential election is Bank or no Bank...." (2)

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BUCHANAN, JAMES, President. Two autograph letters signed in full as Senator to Senator Arnold Plumer, Bedford Springs, 7 August 1844 and n.d., Together 5 pages, folio and 4to, the second letter with 1 1/2 in. strip at top torn away with loss of several lines on verso, and old tape repairs along one tear, the other letter frayed at edges. Unusually outspoken commentary on the issues of the Presidential election of 1844 (which pitted Polk against Clay) and the Nullification controvery of Jackson's era: "The Whigs seem to have abandoned all other questions...& are devoting themselves with the energy of despair to the Tariff [of 1842]....and the indiscretion & folly of our Southern Democratic friends furnish them with ammunition. I have just read with sorrow the address of the Charlottesville (Va) Convention against the present Tariff & in favor of the Compromise....We are destined to witness greater difficulties on this question than we passed through in 1832 & 1833. Had M. Clay let General Jackson alone he would then have settled the question...Are you aware of the fact, that the Nullification Convention of South Carolina, not M. Clay, are substantially the authors of the Compromise? ...I shall make a quotation for you from General Jackson's Message...He says...'they are willing to make a large offering to preserve the Union [six lines follow]...' Is this not the very spirit & essence of the Compromise Act? What said Old Hickory...? [another quotation follows]...Thus Jackson and the South Carolina Convention were at issue when M. Clay interposed: & the consequence is that we shall have to fight the same battle over again with much greater odds against us...The great question to be determined in the Presidential election is Bank or no Bank...." (2)