John Tyler actually said...

"I congratulate the country upon so happy a termination of a condition of things which seemed at one time seriously to threaten the public peace."

"I utterly repudiate the idea, in terms as emphatic as I can employ, that those laws are not to be enforced or those guaranties complied with because the President may believe that the right of suffrag..."

"I have to inform the House that the Executive did not deem it his duty to interfere with the naval and military forces of the United States"

"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..."