December 22, 1857
To the Senate of the United States:
In answer to resolutions of the Senate of the 16th and 18th instant, requesting correspondence and documents relative to the Territory of Kansas, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the papers by which it was accompanied.
JAMES BUCHANAN.
James Buchanan, Message to the Senate on Affairs in Kansas Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202452