I not only rejoice, but congratulate my beloved country Texas is reannexed, and the safety, prosperity, and the greatest interest of the whole Union is secured by this great and important national act.

Their object is disunion.

Temporize not! It is always injurious.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

I not only rejoice, but congratulate my beloved country Texas is reannexed, and the safety, prosperity, and the greatest interest of the whole Union is secured by this great and important national act.

It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy, and to give that humane and considerate attention to their rights and their wants which is consistent with the habits of our Government and the feelings of our people.