This language is very significant.

I make great allowance for a change of opinion, but such a change as this hardly falls within the limits of greatest indulgence.

The suspension has not been revoked, and the business of the War Department is conducted by the Secretary ad interim.

There was an interval of a week between that date and the order of suspension, during which two Cabinet meetings were held.

Public considerations of a high character constrain me to say that your resignation as Secretary of War will be accepted.

Mr. Stanton holds the position unwillingly.

You are hereby suspended from office as Secretary of War, and will cease to exercise any and all functions pertaining to the same.

Under a sense of public duty I am compelled to deny your right under the Constitution and laws of the United States.

To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 25th ultimo, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers.

It can not be legally accepted by the executive government without the advice and consent of the Senate.

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the papers accompanying it.

I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 26th ultimo, a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers.

On the contrary, candor compels me to declare that at this time there is no Union as our fathers understood the term, and as they meant it to be understood by us.

The great difference between the two races in physical, mental, and moral characteristics will prevent an amalgamation or fusion of them together in one homogeneous mass.

A trust artificially created, not for its own sake, but solely as a means of promoting the general welfare, its influence for good must necessarily depend upon the elevated character and true allegiance of the elector.

Business in the South is paralyzed by a sense of general insecurity, by the terror of confiscation, and the dread of Negro supremacy.

To me the process of restoration seems perfectly plain and simple.

The great interests of the country require immediate relief from these enactments.