Letter from Robert Grier to Aubrey Smith

United States Supreme Court Justice Robert Cooper Grier (Class of 1812) writes to Aubrey H. Smith regarding the secession crisis. Grier describes President James Buchanan as "wholly unequal" to dealing with the secession crisis, calls Secretary of War John B. Floyd a traitor, describes flaws of other members in President Buchanan's cabinet, and predicts a civil war. "We are governed by fools and knaves," as Grier explains. Transcript included.