Andrew Johnson: “I submit herewith the report of the Secretary of State and the papers accompanying it.”

By direction of the President, Brigadier and Brevet Major-General Irvin McDowell is assigned to the command of the Department of the East.

I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.

In further answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 25th of November, 1867, calling for information in relation to the trial and conviction of American citizens in Great Britain and Ireland for the last two years, I…

I would therefore recommend such an amendment of the Constitution as may remove all intermediate agency in the election of the President and Vice-President.