James Buchanan actually said...

In my former protest, therefore, I truly and emphatically declared that it was made for no reason personal to myself, but because the procee...

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...

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

I concur in the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior that the treaty should be ratified, with the amendments suggested by the Com...