Creative Speculation

Ulysses Grant wrote in his autobiography that Buchanan and his cronies secretly shipped massive amounts of military supplies and armaments and equipment to hiding places in the South, to give their budding Confederacy the advantage in the coming Civil War. And Elizabeth Keckley wrote in her autobiography about a conversation with Mrs. Buchanan in which Mrs. Buchanan implied that a lot of preparation was underway. Apparently these actions were premeditated, and they seem pretty malicious to me.