For reasons heretofore stated in my several veto messages to Congress upon the subject of reconstruction, I return without my approval the 'Joint resolution to carry into effect the several acts providing for the more efficient government of the rebel States,' and appropriating for that purpose the sum of $1,000,000.
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I have been unable to find in the Constitution of the United States any warrant for the exercise of the authority thus claimed by Congress.
This event will occasion mourning in the nation for the loss of an eminent citizen and honored public servant.
I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to a resolution of the 9th instant, the accompanying report from the Secretary of State.
I transmit to Congress the accompanying documents, which embrace all the papers that have been submitted to me relating to the proceedings to which they refer in the States of North Carolina and Louisiana.
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