Andrew Johnson: “I have with that view nominated to the Senate an officer of the same grade with the one now accredited to the Republic…”

I would therefore recommend such an amendment of the Constitution as may remove all intermediate agency in the election of the President and Vice-President.

My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.

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

The foregoing views have long been entertained by me.