Letter from James Buchanan to J. C. Plumer

Senator James Buchanan writes to J. C. Plumer regarding the fate of a Bank Bill that the House of Representatives had recently approved. "We shall show it off in its naked deformity before it passes the Senate," as Buchanan observes. Buchanan also discusses the support for Democratic Pennsylvania Governor David R. Porter as well as the demise of the Whig Party. Transcript included.