James Buchanan: 15th and WORST president EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
President James Buchanan (YUCK!)
We are going to Lancaster, Pennsylvania where we will visit President Buchanan's home. Upon arrival, I will run through the rooms of his house yelling, "I can't stand you! You supported slavery and did everything in your power to perpetuate it! You let the Union dissolve and did NOTHING to repair it. Your presidency is a black mark on American history! You are a LOSER!!!!"
President Buchanan's home- Wheatland
Following this cleansing tirade, we will move on to James Buchanan's grave site where I will throw dirt on it and spit. (Well, I probably won't go that far...but I might!)
President Buchanan's Grave Site
In case you do not remember why I dislike Buchanan so much, I encourage you to read the following excerpt from wikipedia, which sums it up: Buchanan personally favored slaveowners' rights and he sympathized with the slave-expansionists who coveted Cuba. Buchanan despised both abolitionists and free-soil Republicans, lumping the two together. He fought the opponents of the Slave Power. In his third annual message Buchanan claimed that the slaves were "treated with kindness and humanity.... Both the philanthropy and the self-interest of the master have combined to produce this humane result" [13]. Historian Kenneth Stampp wrote:
Shortly after his election, he assured a southern Senator that the "great object" of his administration would be "to arrest, if possible, the agitation of the Slavery question in the North and to destroy sectional parties. Should a kind Providence enable me to succeed in my efforts to restore harmony to the Union, I shall feel that I have not lived in vain." In short, in the northern anti-slavery idiom of his day Buchanan was the consummate "doughface," a northern man with southern principles.[14] His inactivity was so great, he even vetoed a bill passed by Congress to create more colleges, for he believed that "there were already too many educated people."[15] (www.wikpedia.com)
In short, he did everything in his power to deny equality and freedom to African Americans and others. Buchanan STINKS!!!!!!
O.K. Now on to fun stuff to do while in Lancaster, PA!!
1. Go on a ghost tour! So fun!!!! Lancaster Ghost Tour
2. Go to Hersheypark! Also VERY fun!!! Hersheypark
3. Take a hot air ballon ride with the U.S. Hot Air Balloon Team!
Oh, and one more thing.....
Thank you for being the best CUSH class EVER and giving me so much to look forward to when coming to school each day this year. You guys are AWESOME!!!!!!! (Even though you always bring up Buchanan and don't have the best track record when it comes to homework completion!) :)
Thank you, Mrs. Abramovich, for supplying me with caffeine and SANITY all year!! You are the BEST!!!!!!
James Buchanan: 15th and WORST president EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are going to Lancaster, Pennsylvania where we will visit President Buchanan's home. Upon arrival, I will run through the rooms of his house yelling, "I can't stand you! You supported slavery and did everything in your power to perpetuate it! You let the Union dissolve and did NOTHING to repair it. Your presidency is a black mark on American history! You are a LOSER!!!!"
Following this cleansing tirade, we will move on to James Buchanan's grave site where I will throw dirt on it and spit. (Well, I probably won't go that far...but I might!)
Buchanan personally favored slaveowners' rights and he sympathized with the slave-expansionists who coveted Cuba. Buchanan despised both abolitionists and free-soil Republicans, lumping the two together. He fought the opponents of the Slave Power. In his third annual message Buchanan claimed that the slaves were "treated with kindness and humanity.... Both the philanthropy and the self-interest of the master have combined to produce this humane result" [13]. Historian Kenneth Stampp wrote:
Shortly after his election, he assured a southern Senator that the "great object" of his administration would be "to arrest, if possible, the agitation of the Slavery question in the North and to destroy sectional parties. Should a kind Providence enable me to succeed in my efforts to restore harmony to the Union, I shall feel that I have not lived in vain." In short, in the northern anti-slavery idiom of his day Buchanan was the consummate "doughface," a northern man with southern principles.[14]
His inactivity was so great, he even vetoed a bill passed by Congress to create more colleges, for he believed that "there were already too many educated people."[15] (www.wikpedia.com)
In short, he did everything in his power to deny equality and freedom to African Americans and others. Buchanan STINKS!!!!!!
O.K. Now on to fun stuff to do while in Lancaster, PA!!
1. Go on a ghost tour! So fun!!!! Lancaster Ghost Tour
2. Go to Hersheypark! Also VERY fun!!! Hersheypark
3. Take a hot air ballon ride with the U.S. Hot Air Balloon Team!
Oh, and one more thing.....
Thank you for being the best CUSH class EVER and giving me so much to look forward to when coming to school each day this year. You guys are AWESOME!!!!!!! (Even though you always bring up Buchanan and don't have the best track record when it comes to homework completion!) :)
Thank you, Mrs. Abramovich, for supplying me with caffeine and SANITY all year!! You are the BEST!!!!!!
Happy Summer Vacation, Everybody!!!!!!!