James Buchanan actually said...

"The principle has been recognized in some form or other by an almost unanimous vote of both Houses of Congress that a Territory has a right to come into the Union either as a free or a slave State, ac..."

"The resistance to rightful authority and the persevering attempts to establish a revolutionary government under the Topeka constitution which caused the people of Kansas to commit the grave error of r..."

"With my deep convictions of duty I could have pursued no other course."

"For these and other good reasons, I, James Buchanan, President of the United States, have thought it fit to issue this my proclamation."