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

Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in...

no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until with...