Explanation: James Buchanan was the last president elected before the US Civil War. He is widely considered to have been one of the worst presidents in our history, with his blatant Southern slaver sympathy emboldening the slaver cause, while simultaneously infuriating the anti-slavery North. When the Southern states seceded, he placed the blame on the North for ‘provoking’ the slavers into attempting to murder their way into a perpetual slaverocracy.
The secretary of the interior in 1856, literally the second Buchanan takes office: Mr President, there’s a little mini war happening at the Kansas Nebraska border over slavery, people are literally killing each other about it.
James Buchanan, probably: nah that’s fine. Let em fight it out. That will surely settle the matter once and for all.
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Explanation: James Buchanan was the last president elected before the US Civil War. He is widely considered to have been one of the worst presidents in our history, with his blatant Southern slaver sympathy emboldening the slaver cause, while simultaneously infuriating the anti-slavery North. When the Southern states seceded, he placed the blame on the North for ‘provoking’ the slavers into attempting to murder their way into a perpetual slaverocracy.
Fuckwit.
The secretary of the interior in 1856, literally the second Buchanan takes office: Mr President, there’s a little mini war happening at the Kansas Nebraska border over slavery, people are literally killing each other about it.
James Buchanan, probably: nah that’s fine. Let em fight it out. That will surely settle the matter once and for all.