Tyler's Quarterly Historical and SARAH CONSTANT THE SARAH CONSTANT, GOODSPEED AND DISCOVERY Genealogical Magazine Editor: LYON G. TYLER, M. A., LL. D. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in Richmond, Va., according Genealogical Magazine Annual subscription, $4.00. Single numbers, $1.25. As back numbers of the old William and Mary Quarterly, of which I was proprietor, have become very scarce, single copies, as far as had, may be ob- Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Vol. IX. JULY, 1927. No. 1 JAMES BUCHANAN AND HIS CABINET JAMES BUCHANAN AND HIS CABINET, on the eve of Secession. By Philip G. Auchampaugh, Professor of History, State Teachers College, Duluth, Minnesota, 1927. The scope of this work embraces the period from the election in 1860 to the close of Buchanan's term of office, and is a successful attempt of the writer to set forth the real facts relating to the closing months of James Buchanan's administration. It is a relief to see the moderate men of the North coming into their own again. The disgusting and unscrupulous manner in which facts have been misrepresented by Northern extremists since 1861 receives a signal rebuke when men of the North, with the impartial spirit of P. G. Auchampaugh, Claude G. Bowers, George Morgan, Gamaliel Bradford, and Paul S. Whitcomb, use the pen. Mr. Auchampaugh justly observes that "the defeated parties in civil conflicts are twice unfortunate, once on the field of arms and again in the matter of bard, for few minstrels love to sing of defeats"; and as time goes on, even the conquered begin to forget their ancestors under the conditions to which they have to conform themselves. It is that way with the South today. The cause, therefore, of the Democratic party of the North in 1860 is more a "lost cause" than that of the South. As nation, practically unanimous, the South has had no small number of able writers who have placed their case before the world, but the Democrats of the North, who put their confidence in peaceful measures for the maintenance of the Union, have been overwhelmed by the successful party in their midst, and they have had few defenders in the South because they stopped short |