Authors: James Buchanan

1825–1860

Veto Message Regarding Land Grant Colleges

Source: James Buchanan, Veto Message, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/203065. I return with my objections to the House of Representatives, in which it originated,

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The Ostend Manifesto

Pierre Soule, The Ostend Manifesto, 1854, “The Ostend Manifesto,” American History Leaflets, no. 2 (New York: A. Lovell & Co., 1892), available at https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x030754125. The undersigned, in compliance with the

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1825–1860

Annual Message to Congress (1859)

Message of the President of the United States, 36th Cong., 1st sess., Congressional Globe, Appendix p. 1. Fellow—Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: Our deep and heartfelt gratitude is

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1825–1860

Annual Message to Congress (1858)

James Buchanan, “James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers: Series IV: Additions, 1842-1867; Addition III; State of the Union message, 1858, Dec. 3,” in Public Papers of the Presidents of

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1825–1860

Annual Message to Congress (1857)

Message of the President of the United States, 35th Cong., 1st sess., Congressional Globe, Appendix p. 1.  Fellow–Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: In obedience to the command of

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1825–1860

Inaugural Address (1857)

James Buchanan, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202401 Fellow-Citizens: I APPEAR before you this day to take the solemn oath “that

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1825–1860

Annual Message to Congress (1860)

James D. Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Presidents, vol. 5 (Washington, DC, 1897-1917), pp. 656 ff. Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: Throughout the year since our

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