Lincoln a better was president than vet Davis?https://twitter.com/Mdiesel16/status/1420237577429336066 …
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Nobody saw that with Buchanan. He'd been involved with all levels of government & served with distinction wherever he had been. And aside from a bit of silliness involving eggnog at West Point, there were no blemishes on Davis's character: Davis's military record was excellent.
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You couldn't ask for more ostentatiously qualified establishment men than Buchanan & Davis. They were Emerson's "city dolls," while Lincoln was the "sturdy lad" who "tries all the professions [...] teams it, farms it, peddles [...] and always, like a cat, falls on his feet."
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Buchanan's chief virtue was the fact he was a Northern Democrat with a track record of avoiding the slavery issue or appeasing Pro-slavery forces. He allowed enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act until the final day of his administration.
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Buchanan's chief virtue, if it can be called such, was that he was negotiating a treaty in England while the Kansas-Nebraska Act was being hashed out. He was thus one of a very few active political figures left unscathed in the fracas.
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