Andrew Johnson actually said...

"How far the duty of the President 'to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution' requires him to go in opposing an unconstitutional act of Congress is a very serious and important question."

"It is clear to my apprehension that the States lately in rebellion are still members of the National Union."

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

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