Andrew Johnson: “The mutual confidence and general accord which should exist in such a relation had ceased.”

I transmit to the Senate, in further answer to their resolution of the 14th of April last, the accompanying report from the Secretary of State.

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of the Interior, made in reply to the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on the 13th instant.

Would it not be the part of wisdom to take for our guide the Federal Constitution, rather than resort to measures which, looking only to the present, may in a few years renew, in an aggravated form, the strife and bitterness caused by…

Thus far during the existence of the Government the Supreme Court of the United States has been viewed by the people as the true expounder of their Constitution, and in the most violent party conflicts its judgments and decrees have always…