{"id":61944,"date":"2015-05-26T09:32:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T13:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61944"},"modified":"2015-05-24T09:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T13:42:46","slug":"historian-tom-henry-takes-on-pres-buchanan-and-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61944","title":{"rendered":"Historian Tom Henry takes on Pres. Buchanan and the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oneida-public-library.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-61797\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oneida-public-library-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"oneida-public-library\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oneida-public-library.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oneida-public-library-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(Oneida, NY- May 2015) When today\u2019s U.S. Supreme Court is making big decisions that will change the nation, historian and teacher\u00a0\u00a0Tom Henry makes a timely visit to Oneida Public Library to discuss \u201cOld Buck and Old Dred: President Buchanan, Dred Scott and the Crisis of Union\u201d\u00a0on Thursday\u00a0evening\u00a0June 11 at\u00a07 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>In several classes at Oasis Senior Living in Syracuse, Henry has addressed the constitutional impact that many \u201cforgotten\u201d presidents have had. In his Oneida lecture, he focuses on the 15th president, James Buchanan, who has been thoroughly eclipsed in the people\u2019s estimation by his successor, Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Buchanan literally let the Union slip away,\u201d Henry said recently, \u201cfirst over the Dred Scott case and later by failing to respond to secession. In the presentation, we\u2019ll look at Buchanan\u2019s character and his thinking, and we\u2019ll find out why his presidency was vitally critical to the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreat cases like hard cases make bad laws,\u201d said Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857 is the supreme example of this. In deciding the fate of a free black man under the Fugitive Slave Law, the Court, dominated by Southerners and supported by Buchanan, decreed that African-Americans, whether slave or free, were not American citizens and thus could not sue in court for redress in any state or U.S. territory. Dred Scott was then remanded to Missouri and back into slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of putting the slavery issue to rest, as Buchanan hoped, the Dred Scott decision ignited it. The North became radicalized, the Republican Party emerged as a viable party and the South was emboldened never to compromise.<\/p>\n<p>Henry\u2019s lecture\u00a0June 11\u00a0is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, stop by the Oneida Library, 220 Broad St., or call 363-3050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Oneida, NY- May 2015) When today\u2019s U.S. Supreme Court is making big decisions that will change the nation, historian and teacher\u00a0\u00a0Tom Henry makes a timely visit to Oneida Public Library to discuss \u201cOld Buck and Old Dred: President Buchanan, Dred Scott and the Crisis of Union\u201d\u00a0on Thursday\u00a0evening\u00a0June 11 at\u00a07 p.m. In several classes at Oasis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}