Andrew Johnson: “In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.”

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.

I transmit herewith, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th of December last, a report from the Secretary of State of the 6th instant.

The foregoing views have long been entertained by me.

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