James Buchanan actually said...

By what authority have they undertaken to pry into our foreign relations for the purpose of assailing him on account of the instructions giv...

There is an enlightened justice, as well as a beautiful symmetry, in every part of the Constitution.

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

If this were not the case, then by the purchase of a new territory from a foreign government out of the public Treasury Congress could enlar...