Millard Fillmore actually said...

"I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation, between the United States and the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, signed at..."

"Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: The brief space which has elapsed since the close of your last session has been marked by no extraordinary political event."

"It is, nevertheless, a subject of national congratulation that the choice has been effected by the independent suffrages of a free people."

"The illness and death of the late Secretary of State prevented the commencement of the contemplated negotiation."