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By James Buchanan
Our own country could alone have exhibited so grand and striking a spectacle of the capacity of man for self-government.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1857
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From James Buchanan's inaugural address on March 4, 1857, about how the country accepted the result of the 1856 election.