Franklin Pierce, “Franklin Pierce Papers: Series 5, Messages to Congress, 1853-1856,” in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Franklin Pierce, 1856, Franklin Pierce Papers (Washington, DC: Library

Message of the President of the United States, 34th Cong., 1st sess., Congressional Globe, Appendix p. 1. https://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20211117141943/https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=042/llcg042.db&recNum=12 Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: The Constitution of the

Franklin Pierce, “Image 325 of Franklin Pierce Papers: Series 5, Messages to Congress, 1853-1856,” in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Franklin Pierce, 1854, Franklin Pierce Papers

Franklin Pierce, “Franklin Pierce Papers: Series 5, Messages to Congress, 1853-1856,” in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Franklin Pierce, 1853, Franklin Pierce Papers (Washington, DC: Library

Franklin Pierce, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/201856 My Countrymen: IT is a relief to feel that no heart but my