James Buchanan actually said...

I still entertain the same opinion, deeming it highly important, if not indispensable to the success of any negotiation which I might instit...

The magnitude of the work has prevented the preparation of another copy.

In my late annual message I stated in reference to the purchase of Cuba that 'the publicity which has been given to our former negotiations ...

I herewith transmit to the Senate a digest of the statistics of manufactures according to the returns of the Seventh Census, prepared under ...