Jun 22, 1860
I therefore earnestly recommend that the act referred to be so modified as to empower the Postmaster-General to provide for carrying the California mails at a rate of compensation which may be deemed reasonable and just.
James Buchanan
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James Buchanan was the 15th President of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in Pennsylvania and held several significant positions in government prior to his presidency, including Secretary of State and minister to the United Kingdom. His presidency is often marked by his attempts to maintain peace in a nation increasingly divided over the issue of slavery, but he is frequently criticized for his failure to prevent the Civil War. Buchanan's administration faced numerous challenges, including economic turmoil and rising tensions between the North and South.
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Jun 22, 1860
The Postmaster-General has offered the California mails to the several companies and shipowners engaged in the trade with the Pacific via the Isthmus, but they have all declined carrying them for the postages.
Jun 22, 1860
They demand a higher rate of compensation, and unless power is given to the Postmaster-General to accede to this demand I am well satisfied that these mails can not be forwarded.
Jun 21, 1860
And in the expressive and pointed language of Mr. Jefferson, when speaking of the tendency of the legislative branch of Government to usurp the rights of the weaker branches: The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the…
Jun 21, 1860
By what authority have they inquired into the causes of removal from office, and this from the parties themselves removed, with a view to prejudice his character, notwithstanding this power of removal belongs exclusively to the President…
Jun 21, 1860
If this were not the case, then by the purchase of a new territory from a foreign government out of the public Treasury Congress could enlarge their own powers.
Jun 21, 1860
In my former protest, therefore, I truly and emphatically declared that it was made for no reason personal to myself, but because the proceedings of the House were in violation of the rights of the coordinate executive branch of the…
Jun 21, 1860
In the language of Mr. Madison, speaking on this very subject in the forty-eighth number of the Federalist: In a representative republic, where the executive magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent and duration of its power.
Jun 21, 1860
There is an enlightened justice, as well as a beautiful symmetry, in every part of the Constitution.
Jun 21, 1860
The true meaning of these words is clearly stated by Chief Justice Taney in delivering the opinion of the court (19 Howard, p. 436).
Jun 21, 1860
This state of the facts raises the question whether Congress, under the Constitution, has the power to give away the public lands either to States or individuals.
Jun 21, 1860
But I can not so read the words 'dispose of' as to make them embrace the idea of 'giving away'.
Jun 21, 1860
By what authority have they undertaken to pry into our foreign relations for the purpose of assailing him on account of the instructions given by the Secretary of State to our minister in Mexico relative to the Tehuantepec route?
Jun 21, 1860
The resolution of the House, so far as it is accusatory of the President, is confined to an inquiry whether he had used corrupt or improper means to influence the action of Congress or any of its committees on legislative measures pending…
Jun 21, 1860
By what authority have the committee undertaken to investigate the course of the President in regard to the convention which framed the Lecompton constitution?
Jun 21, 1860
This bill will prove unequal and unjust in its operation, because from its nature it is confined to one class of our people.
Jun 21, 1860
We ought ever to maintain the most perfect equality between native and naturalized citizens.
Jun 21, 1860
This bill, which proposes to give him land at an almost nominal price out of the property of the Government, will go far to demoralize the people and repress this noble spirit of independence.
Jun 21, 1860
It would be a strange anomaly indeed to have created two funds--the one by taxation, confined to the execution of the enumerated powers delegated to Congress, and the other from the public lands, applicable to all subjects, foreign and…
Jun 21, 1860
I solemnly protested against the creation of a committee, at the head of which was placed my accuser.
Jun 21, 1860
Is it just, is it equal, that after they have accomplished all this by their labor new settlers should come in among them and receive their farms at the price of 25 or 18 cents per acre?
Jun 21, 1860
The charges made against me in vague and general terms were of such a false and atrocious character that I did not entertain a moment's apprehension for the result.
Jun 13, 1860
I concur in the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior that the treaty should be ratified, with the amendments suggested by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
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