P. H. Sheridan Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals by U. S. Grant]@TWC D-Link book P. H. Sheridan Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals 9/28 With a Democrat elected by the unanimous vote of the Slave States, there could be no pretext for secession for four years. I very much hoped that the passions of the people would subside in that time, and the catastrophe be averted altogether; if it was not, I believed the country would be better prepared to receive the shock and to resist it. I therefore voted for James Buchanan for President. Four years later the Republican party was successful in electing its candidate to the Presidency. The civilized world has learned the consequence. |