James Buchanan said...

The immediate peril arises not so much from these causes as from the fact that the incessant and violent agitation of th...

I certainly had no right to make aggressive war upon any State, and I am perfectly satisfied that the Constitution has w...

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...