george washington's birthday. much of washington assembles in the streets of people come in from the countryside and newspapers advertise this event. the night before old president john tyler, a suite of the browns hotel, to find out about this big military demonstration and realizes and sees it for what it is, and intimidation aimed at the south and in particular the southern delegate at the peace conference. so he sends an urgent note to president buchanan, the parade must be canceled, otherwise it would disrupt the peace conference. buchanan being a very in many ways a nervous person trying to hold things together am intimidated by the implied threat, and that night or early morning tries to cancel this parade even after the crowds are assembling. so the army and navy units and the marines offered back to the parents and the d.c. militia units march alone. and congressman sickles is so upset that he storms up to the white house to protest, and again president began is very nervous come intimidated and says yes, i agree with you, this is embarrassing, the parade is back on. so they had to bring the army and navy and it's back to pennsylvania avenue. it was too late for the marines. they were a