Andrew Johnson actually said...

I feel well assured that it will be better to trust the rights, privileges, and immunities of the citizen to tribunals thus established, and...

The necessity no longer existing for such tribunals, which had their origin in the war, gave objections to their continuance must present th...

There is danger, too, that conflict of jurisdiction will frequently arise between the civil courts and these military tribunals, each having...

I now reaffirm them and the line of policy therein indicated.