Andrew Johnson said...

My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction...

No report upon this subject has yet been received by me from the War Department.

As a mark of respect for his memory, it is ordered that the Executive Departments be immediately placed in mourning and ...

I transmit to Congress a copy of a dispatch from the United States consul at Elsinore, and of an instruction from the Se...