[MR. BUCHANAN TO HON. GEORGE G. LEIPER.]
Wheatland, December 21, 1863.
My Dear Sir:—
I have received your kind favor, and am always rejoiced to learn your continued health and happiness. May you live to enjoy a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and a number of such, until, in a good old age, you shall be peacefully gathered to your fathers in well-grounded Christian hope.
The storm of persecution against me, as you intimate, has nearly spent itself, though the Herald and the Tribune, both of which I take, occasionally strike me a blow. My time will, however, soon come. I am now much more fully prepared than I was a year ago. I view it as a merciful dispensation of Providence that the report of General Scott to President Lincoln has been published during my lifetime, and this through his own folly.....
Miss Lane desires her kindest remembrance to you. I need not say we shall always be most happy to see and welcome you at Wheatland.
Your friend,
James Buchanan.
[MR. BUCHANAN TO DR. BLAKE.]
Wheatland, near Lancaster, December 31, 1863.