John Tyler actually said...

"Under every view which I have been able to take of the subject, I think that the interests of our common constituents the people of all the States, and a love of the Union, left the Executive no other..."

"I have been influenced by what appeared to me to be the most controlling considerations of public policy and the general good."

"The country itself, thus obtained, is of incalculable value in an agricultural and commercial point of view."

"I must be permitted to disclaim entirely and unqualifiedly the right on the part of the Executive to make any real or supposed defects existing in any State constitution or form of government the pret..."