Daily News | A Pennsylvania town remembers its president: James Buchanan
MERCERSBURG, Pa. — It was rainy and cold, and the Tuscarora Mountains were blanketed in a mist so thick they could barely be discerned.
Reisner, a slight, soft-spoken history teacher at Mercersburg Academy, a local boarding school, has during the last decade occasionally taken on the role of the often-criticized 15th president of the United States, giving performances for his students and for audiences in the area. Buchanan was elected president in 1856 during a time of growing anti- slavery sentiment and concerns about political corruption, urban crime, economic problems, the breakdown of the Victorian family and immigration troubles. When Kansas adopted a pro-slavery constitution and Buchanan, a Democrat, didn’t intervene, an anti-Buchanan political juggernaut began to move.
In December 1860, when South Carolina threatened to secede, Buchanan refused to send troops to restore order even though he had been urged to do so. because he was an ambassador and a congressman and secretary of state. That’s not to take anything away from Ronald Reagan.”
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