Martin Van Buren actually said...

"In cases where commissions of the same grade and date interfere a retrospect is to be had to former commissions in actual service at the time of appointment."

"I nominate the persons named in the accompanying list for promotion and appointment in the Army to the several grades annexed to their names, as proposed by the Secretary of War."

"I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, which exhibits certain transfers of appropriations made in the War Department under the authority conferred upon the President of the United Sta..."

"The weight which presses upon a large portion of the people and the States is an enormous debt, foreign and domestic."