James Buchanan said...

They demand a higher rate of compensation, and unless power is given to the Postmaster-General to accede to this demand ...

It must be allowed that these precedents, so numerous and so long continued, are entitled to great respect, since we can...

I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims o...

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