James Buchanan said...

It was impossible that Congress could have had such an intention, and therefore, according to my construction of the cla...

no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until with...

It is evident that Congress intended nothing more by this clause than to express a decided opinion that Captain Meigs sh...

I certainly had no right to make aggressive war upon any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Constitution has w...