Millard Fillmore actually said...

"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."

"A willingness to meet us in some arrangement of this kind is understood to exist on the part of Great Britain, with a desire on her part to include in one comprehensive settlement as well this subject..."

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