By what authority have the committee undertaken to investigate the course of the President in regard to the convention which framed the Lecompton constitution?

The true meaning of these words is clearly stated by Chief Justice Taney in delivering the opinion of the court (19 Howard, p. 436).

But I can not so read the words 'dispose of' as to make them embrace the idea of 'giving away'.

In my former protest, therefore, I truly and emphatically declared that it was made for no reason personal to myself, but because the proceedings of the House were in violation of the rights of the coordinate executive branch of the…

We ought ever to maintain the most perfect equality between native and naturalized citizens.

In the language of Mr. Madison, speaking on this very subject in the forty-eighth number of the Federalist: In a representative republic, where the executive magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent and duration of its power.

It would be a strange anomaly indeed to have created two funds--the one by taxation, confined to the execution of the enumerated powers delegated to Congress, and the other from the public lands, applicable to all subjects, foreign and…

There is an enlightened justice, as well as a beautiful symmetry, in every part of the Constitution.

If this were not the case, then by the purchase of a new territory from a foreign government out of the public Treasury Congress could enlarge their own powers.

By what authority have they inquired into the causes of removal from office, and this from the parties themselves removed, with a view to prejudice his character, notwithstanding this power of removal belongs exclusively to the President…

This state of the facts raises the question whether Congress, under the Constitution, has the power to give away the public lands either to States or individuals.

This bill will prove unequal and unjust in its operation, because from its nature it is confined to one class of our people.

The charges made against me in vague and general terms were of such a false and atrocious character that I did not entertain a moment's apprehension for the result.

And in the expressive and pointed language of Mr. Jefferson, when speaking of the tendency of the legislative branch of Government to usurp the rights of the weaker branches: The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the…

By what authority have they undertaken to pry into our foreign relations for the purpose of assailing him on account of the instructions given by the Secretary of State to our minister in Mexico relative to the Tehuantepec route?

Is it just, is it equal, that after they have accomplished all this by their labor new settlers should come in among them and receive their farms at the price of 25 or 18 cents per acre?

I solemnly protested against the creation of a committee, at the head of which was placed my accuser.

It will greatly reduce the market value of these warrants.