“I dont buy that. James Buchanan was President and while a Pennsylvanian he was friendly towards the South. His critics called him a doughface, a Northern politician sympathetic to the South.”
You are treating events before Brown’s failed revolution with the days after.
Does what I just wrote make any sense to you?
It’s a fine example of the Argument of the Beard, Continuum Fallacy, Heap Paradox.