El IV ' . "''''"i4ts . eo44 l l:ol..B l ,otiolis, wl* thr.4cificasisr 7rvltiesdetrilltliii • _ t ; • tnar 'ART • . ' ; mla pa,n i , tIl inky ou to annnce! ::tn t. eaeith or lamented - 110104)(4r, the Hon.} James RuChariaw He departed.this life on 1 theally of June; 1856, surrounded by his' 'friends, "the. Keystone Club.' ' Like most illuitrionsinen tailad his "last words" which are: recorded, and *ill long be remernbered. - Timmeet.T. Q. Adains were " - this is the last' oft am content." Of. Panic) Web ' stitt'; - " I still live." ; .0f the stilject f this tun no fongerlames:fluclitman." ,All memorable words, and worthy of those wbouttered -them. • ' Mr, Buchanan was the son of '.:revectable Irish parents'; he Wis born in the county of Pennsylvania, in the last :quarter; .0 . 1110 .last eentut*, Never having been, Married, and ; the familylecord being some .•-what defaced,' it has not been tonna Fo s sib) e 'to ascertain the - eiect. year Of his birth. It iR variously stated,. 'rem 1783 •te 1181. Of -course; be attained 'the age of fromo6 to 74—adeetling you take the assumed dates of his birth: , He graduated witty ths'tinction at Dickinson College' ' read . law under that distinguished jurist, -Jame&,ll(pkinS, dec'd. Met having rend j the hill term, he: , was mitted to the har of tAncaster aunty., in , 3e12. - He - soon-rase distittetion, - and ac quired. a large practice. He. early `;entered; with great zeal and success, into )ras anordenti Federalist Jiandrhis 0 ,433p1es were 'Of the triost pore and imniixed kind. Indeed; it' was proverbial: ithat • 'nine were Unalloyed. by a " singlet:drop of democratic As , he advanced, in life, , Maumee, th e rederal party fell hope. ,leas minority, and Mr. Bnehanan, cOnsl44tient . V, became convinced' that - their prinqp'e.z 'tarsi wrong', , sooner had ' he Imo& the disoovery titan he boldly igined the .S.:3 ) ;11 Carolina school. Of his sincerity fthrre can. tin.no doubt, as he went forthCr in'the doe _Vino of free tatade, and the divin4, right of Slivery, than even the great South: Cli•oliria foiandhr of-those dogmas. Awl in dehatiee of popular odium, hp maintained; -,on, the floor of C.oVeas,the ficiliey of retitteing'rhe wages 'of litho* in this cOuntry to the Evipean stan. dard. Even ini . the midst of unpopularity which it brought upon him, we.,belteve he never retracted the opinion %%bleb be then-ad v./weed. .This was a mos t severe tet of tide,. • ity tp prineiples;:whiehle met fwiih Roman fortitude. 4:Le adopted, also, if indeed he,did -not help to. originate, the philanthropic- idea of compelling the weaker Sfeitherli nations lot this eotitineni,'((as well as C4a,) to re edit the blessings of our free Repubq,'hnd suilmit to annexation. Haying seen the, in; uutuerable'biessings which we