Martin Van Buren actually said...

"In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 30th December, 1839."

"I communicate the report of the Secretary of War, containing the information called for by that resolution as far as it relates to the Department under his charge."

"I deem it my duty to lay the proposition before Congress for such disposition as they may think fit to make of it"

"To the House of Representatives of the United States: I transmit the report of the Secretary of War furnishing a statement of the amounts paid to persons concerned in negotiating Indian treaties since..."