Letter from James Buchanan to Daniel Sickles

James Buchanan writes Daniel E. Sickles to explain why he cannot deliver a speech at Tammany Hall in New York City so soon after Daniel Webster's death. "It would be indelicate, if not improper, for me so soon after his death" to "make a political speech in New York in which I must necessarily condemn the policy of the administration of which [Webster] was a leading member," as Buchanan notes. Transcript included.