James Buchanan actually said...

"I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty of amity and commerce between the United States and Japan, concluded at the city of Yeddo on the 29th of July last..."

"A wiser and better spirit seemed to prevail before the first Monday of January last, when an election was held under the constitution."

"The just equality of all the States has thus been vindicated and a fruitful source of dangerous dissension among them has been removed."

"The principle has been recognized in some form or other by an almost unanimous vote of both Houses of Congress that a Territory has a right to come into the Union either as a free or a slave State, ac..."