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The Most Fallen Man: James K. Polk After the Presidency
“[Van Buren] is the most fallen man I have ever known.” - James K. Polk in reference to Van Buren’s support in the creation and acceptance of the nomination of the Free Soil Party of 1848
Historical Quote, 1848
From Vanity Fair, 1861
THE IMMINENT MEETING OF EX-PRESIDENTS
[Caricatures of Former Presidents Sit at a table, sipping tea in their finest drag.]
VAN BUREN --- “I think I should preside at this meeting, for I laid the foundations of this treason by splitting the Democratic Party on the Buffalo Platform.”
PIERCE --- “I think I deserve special consideration, for I put Jeff Davis in my cabinet as Secretary of War, after he had been rejected by the people of Mississippi for his disunion sentiments.”
BUCHANAN --- “God knows I should have precedence, for with Floyd and the rest of my Cabinet I brought about the present rebellion.”
JOHN TYLER --- “I deserve the first place, for I am identified with the traitors as openly working for the disruption of the Union.”
POLK --- “I think I have the preeminent claim for leadership here, the sectional crisis being founded on my seizure of Texas and New Mexico.”
FILLMORE --- “As positive councils are now only available, and as I am not in that line, I’ll leave.”
"Mr. Buchanan is a man of immense talent. He is fully competent to discharge the high duties of the President as he was to be a Senator, as my Secretary of State, as a Minister abroad and as a Representative but it is one of his weaknesses (and perhaps all great men have such) that he exerts massive energies on the minute and is slothful in the face of the great." - James K. Polk, December 1860. Modified Quote.
"Governor Johnson is a Democrat in name only, who's support for Vice President Breckenridge and our Party and our Nation was next to non-existent in the recent national debate. This is not new, while I occupied the White House and he served in the House his opposition to me was both political and personal.
Now he stand against our state, our party and our southern brothers, seeking to force our state to remain in a Republic that no longer supports our Constitutional Rights. It would be better for us all if he were to admit a simple truth, though he lacks the courage to do so: Andrew Johnson is nothing more than a Black Republican." -James K. Polk in the aftermath of the first failed vote on Tennessee's Secession.
[Not a Historic Quote]
Historical Quote, 1848
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From Vanity Fair, 1861
THE IMMINENT MEETING OF EX-PRESIDENTS
[Caricatures of Former Presidents Sit at a table, sipping tea in their finest drag.]
VAN BUREN --- “I think I should preside at this meeting, for I laid the foundations of this treason by splitting the Democratic Party on the Buffalo Platform.”
PIERCE --- “I think I deserve special consideration, for I put Jeff Davis in my cabinet as Secretary of War, after he had been rejected by the people of Mississippi for his disunion sentiments.”
BUCHANAN --- “God knows I should have precedence, for with Floyd and the rest of my Cabinet I brought about the present rebellion.”
JOHN TYLER --- “I deserve the first place, for I am identified with the traitors as openly working for the disruption of the Union.”
POLK --- “I think I have the preeminent claim for leadership here, the sectional crisis being founded on my seizure of Texas and New Mexico.”
FILLMORE --- “As positive councils are now only available, and as I am not in that line, I’ll leave.”
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"Mr. Buchanan is a man of immense talent. He is fully competent to discharge the high duties of the President as he was to be a Senator, as my Secretary of State, as a Minister abroad and as a Representative but it is one of his weaknesses (and perhaps all great men have such) that he exerts massive energies on the minute and is slothful in the face of the great." - James K. Polk, December 1860. Modified Quote.
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"Governor Johnson is a Democrat in name only, who's support for Vice President Breckenridge and our Party and our Nation was next to non-existent in the recent national debate. This is not new, while I occupied the White House and he served in the House his opposition to me was both political and personal.
Now he stand against our state, our party and our southern brothers, seeking to force our state to remain in a Republic that no longer supports our Constitutional Rights. It would be better for us all if he were to admit a simple truth, though he lacks the courage to do so: Andrew Johnson is nothing more than a Black Republican." -James K. Polk in the aftermath of the first failed vote on Tennessee's Secession.
[Not a Historic Quote]
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