He was interred in Woodward Hill Cemetery in Lancaster.[101]

Political views
James Buchanan (1859) by George Healy as seen in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC
Buchanan was often considered by anti-slavery northerners a "doughface", a northerner with pro-southern principles.[102] Shortly after his election, he said that the "great object" of his administration was "to arrest, if possible, the agitation of the Slavery question in the North and to destroy sectional parties".[102] Although Buchanan was personally opposed to slavery,[18] he believed that the abolitionists were preventing the solution to the slavery problem. He stated, "Before [the abolitionists] commenced this agitation, a very large and growing party existed in several of the slave states in favor of the gradual abolition of slavery; and now not a voice is heard there in support of such a measure. The abolitionists have postponed the emancipation of the slaves in three or four states for at least half a century."[103] In deference to the intentions of the typical slaveholder, he was willing to provide the benefit of the doubt. In his third annual message to Congress, the president claimed that the slaves were "treated with kindness and humanity. ... 