From your friend, very respectfully,
James Buchanan.
[MR. BUCHANAN TO MESSRS. OSBORN AND BALDWIN.]
(Private.)
Wheatland, near Lancaster, December 26, 1866.
Gentlemen:—
I received, on last evening, the New Haven Daily Register, containing an extract from Abbott’s Lives of the Presidents. This is a repetition and concentration of all the slanders which were in circulation against myself during the first years of the war, notwithstanding their falsehood has been since established by clear and conclusive official evidence. For your very able and searching reply to Mr. Abbott’s statements, please to accept my most cordial thanks. As the work purports to be history, I may possibly notice it in the only manner which would make its author feel how much injustice he has done me. I remain, very respectfully and gratefully,
Yours,
James Buchanan.
[MR. BUCHANAN TO THE REV. E. Y. BUCHANAN.]