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 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.

With these brief suggestions the bill is respectfully returned, and the consideration of Congress invited to the accompanying preamble and resolutions.

I transmit to Congress a copy of a dispatch from the United States consul at Elsinore, and of an instruction from the Secretary of State to the United States minister at Copenhagen, relative to an alleged practice of the Danish authorities…

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