State of the Union Addresses

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A financial panic opens the first of James Buchanan's four messages to Congress, dated December 1857 to December 1860 and printed here in order. He describes idle factories, unemployed workers and a shrinking government income, and blames the paper currency and bank credit system. The last, from December 1860, follows Abraham Lincoln's election, with Southern states moving toward secession, a subject the president addresses at length.

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James Buchanan combined careers in law, diplomacy, and Congress before becoming the fifteenth president of the United States. Great Speech of the Honourable James Buchanan records an address delivered at a Democratic mass meeting in Philadelphia in 1856, during the presidential campaign that brought him to office the following year.

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Author: James Buchanan
Reading time: About 4 hours
Pages: 109
Language: English
Genre: American History
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