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 tim...

I nominate the persons named in the accompanying list for promotion and appointment in the Army to the several grades annexed to their names...

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, which exhibits certain transfers of appropriations made in the War Department under ...

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