Hon. James Buchanan, Democratic Candidate for the Presidency, 1856 discipline_artwork Daniel Webster Secretary of State

Daniel Webster Secretary of State 1843 — the Massachusetts orator rendered at his diplomatic post

South Carolina Columbia arrives by way of the Congaree

the lithographer's careful shading lending dignity to a coalition already fracturing over slavery's westward creep

the hollowed eyes

Hon. James Buchanan, Democratic Candidate for the Presidency, 1856 discipline_artwork Daniel Webster Secretary of StateHon. James Buchanan, Democratic Candidate for the Presidency, 1856. A campaign portrait of the Pennsylvania doughface on the eve of his victory over Frmont and Fillmore, printed in that brittle season when the Union still pretended compromise might hold and Kansas was already bleeding into the headlines. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional