Chapter X: Part 2: , page 2089, et seq

Footnote 24:

Mr. Buchanan’s proposal was not adopted, and on the 2d of March, 1829,
the President, Mr. Adams, approved “An act for the continuation of the
Cumberland Road.” Mr. Buchanan voted against this bill, saying that he
did so reluctantly, but that now the House had voted to keep the
Cumberland Road in repair, by erecting toll-gates upon it under the
authority of the Federal Government, and so long as this pretension
continued to be set up, he would not vote for the construction of any
road intended, after its completion, to be thus placed under the
jurisdiction of the United States, as he believed it to be entirely
unconstitutional.

Footnote 25:

This allusion to the Secretaryship of the Russian Mission was, of
course, merely playful. George Buchanan had no thought of seeking this
appointment, nor would his brother have asked for it.

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