Andrew Johnson actually said...

No consideration could induce me to give my approval to such an election law for any purpose, and especially for the great purpose of framin...

All this legislation proceeds upon the contrary assumption that the people of each of these States shall have no constitution except such as...

When this shall have been consummated, I pray God that the errors of the past may be forgotten and that once more we shall be a happy, unite...

A military republic, a government rounded on mock elections and supported only by the sword, was nearly a quarter of a century since pronoun...