I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to its ratification, an additional article to the treaty of navigation and commerce with Russia of the 18th of December, 1832, which additional article was concluded and signed between the plenipotentiaries of the two Governments at Washington on the 27th instant.
Special Message
Share
More from Andrew Johnson
The danger of a defeat of the popular choice in an election by the House of Representatives is no greater than in an election made nominally by the people themselves.
The danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in the Constitution.
My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
Strongly impressed with the truth of these views, I feel called upon by an imperative sense of duty to revive substantially the recommendation so often and so earnestly made by President Jackson.
Other voices in this conversation
