James Monroe actually said...

"The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone possesses the adequate power."

"I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information called for by their resolution of the 1st of this month, touching the capture and detention ..."

"Of the right in Congress to promote these great results by the appropriation of the public money, in harmony with the States to be affected by them, having already communicated my sentiments fully and..."

"From the view which I have taken of these reports I contemplate results of incalculable advantage to our Union"