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Contributions To America By James Buchanan
During the middle of the 19th century, the US President greatly suffered from handling the task of controlling slavery. It created chaos over the entire American society. In the midst of the much disrupted atmosphere, a strong willed leading of a president could have saved the country from breaking out into civil war. The nation needed some power and voice to know how to exercise its freedom rightly and how to shoo off the extremists and the radicals. |
But by failing to not take any firm stand on either side with regards to the issues of slavery, James Buchanan failed to arrive with a resolution. And hence, this led to a much daunting task to his successor.
Historians from all over the world truly believed that James Buchanan’s passivity was the leading cause of the Civil War breaking out. To a lot of people, he seemed like a Northerner by name alone for he only hated abolitionists. But it was the Southerners who made up his circle of friends and hence, when he was asked to take sides, he apparently sided with the interests of the Southerners.
Nevertheless, James Buchanan was known to be a very skillful and talented politician; honest and has a great sense of balance in terms of coalition agendas. He could have been a more successful President in a different era.
After his term, James Buchanan still suffered from difficulty of carrying blame and shame up to the last years of his life. He isolated himself from the public in his own home and spent the rest of his life with the family and a few friends.
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