March 29, 2024
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Wheatland, the home of James Buchanan, is a small estate in the rolling-hills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, eighty miles west of Philadelphia. It was much the same 165 years ago, an unlikely place to find a presidential candidate who would be dubbed a “doughface.”
History would be much more confusing if there were no dates to align the events. Some days very little is historical, but on other days even the amateur historian could fill pages and pages with tales of good and evil. March 9, 1905, was such a day.