James Buchanan: “We ought ever to maintain the most perfect equality between native and naturalized citizens.”

I have to state that all the information within my possession or power on these subjects was communicated to the House by the Secretary of the Treasury on the 21st instant, and was prepared under the resolution above referred to and a…

The dispatch of Mr. Dallas being in the original, its return to the Department of State is requested.

Had I refused to adopt this precautionary measure, and evil consequences, which many good men at the time apprehended, had followed, I should never have forgiven myself.

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.