James Buchanan actually said...

"The representatives of the States and of the people, feeling a more immediate interest in obtaining money to lighten the burdens of their constituents than for the promotion of the more distant object..."

"Surely the present is the most unpropitious moment which could have been selected for the passage of this bill."

"I deem it to be both inexpedient and unconstitutional."

"This bill, should it become a law, will operate greatly to the injury of the new States."