The resistance to rightful authority and the persevering attempts to establish a revolutionary government under the Topeka constitution which caused the people of Kansas to commit the grave error of refusing to vote for delegates to the convention to frame a constitution under a law not denied to be fair and just in its provisions.
Second Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union
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However strong may be my desire to enter into such an agreement, I am convinced that I do not possess the power.
There is but one mode left of settling the dispute, and that is by submitting it to the arbitration of some friendly and impartial power.
Neither the Government nor the citizens in whose behalf the convention has been concluded have any further claims upon the island of Aves.
The peace and order of the city itself and the security of the inauguration of the President elect, were objects of such vast importance to the whole country that I could not hesitate to adopt precautionary defensive measures.
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