President Buchanan's revolving door
With Louisiana, like the other seceding states, snatching every federal outpost, weapon and snuff box that can possibly be seized, John Dix, President Buchanan’s newest treasury secretary — one is tempted to say that Dix is also his last, but with three men having held that job within the last six weeks, one does not wish to underestimate the president — ordered William Hemphill Jones, the chief clerk in the first comptroller’s office, to journey to Louisiana and prevent the department’s two revenue-cutters from falling victim to appropriation.
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