James Buchanan said...

It is my duty at all times to defend and protect the public property within the seceding States so far as this may be pr...

I therefore appeal through you to the people of the country to declare in their might that the Union must and shall be p...

Governments may be, and doubtless often have been, wrong in going to war to enforce claims.

I confess I hail this movement on the part of Virginia with great satisfaction.