...President Buchanan, after describing the great prosperity of the United States, asks the question, "Why is it then that discontent now so extensively prevails?" And the true answer is given that " the long continued and intemperate interference of the Northern people...

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...President began the message with a declaration that the threatened danger to the Union was caused by " the long-continued and intemperate interference of...with the question of slavery in the Southern States." He said that the immediate peril arose neither from the claims that Congress or the Territorial Legislatures...

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...until within a very recent period.115 Still, a crisis faced the country, which Buchanan describes thus: Why is it, then, that discontent now so extensively...States, which is the source of all these blessings in threatened with destruction? The long continued and intemperate interference of the northern people...

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...issue. In his message, he questioned, "Why is it [with all the prosperity the country was blessed with] that discontent now so extensively prevails, and the Union of the States..., is threatened with destruction?" Further into his message he replied to this question by blaming the...