General Ulysses S. Grant having found it inconvenient to assume the duties specified in my letter to you of the 26th instant, you will please relieve him from the same and assign them in all respects to William T. Sherman, Lieutenant-General of the Army of the United States.
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The danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in the Constitution.
I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.
My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
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.
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