Andrew Johnson: “I transmit herewith the report of the Secretary of State on the subject, with its accompanying papers.”

No power exists in the Constitution authorizing the joint resolution or the supposed law--the only difference being that one would be more palpably unconstitutional and revolutionary than the other.

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

I herewith transmit to the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded at Fort Sumner, N. Mex., on the 1st instant, between Lieutenant-General W. T. Sherman and Colonel Samuel F. Tappan, on the part of the United…

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