James Buchanan actually said...

But I can not so read the words 'dispose of' as to make them embrace the idea of 'giving away'.

This bill will prove unequal and unjust in its operation, because from its nature it is confined to one class of our people.

This bill, which proposes to give him land at an almost nominal price out of the property of the Government, will go far to demoralize the p...

We ought ever to maintain the most perfect equality between native and naturalized citizens.