Andrew Johnson: “Obey the constitution, submit to the laws, and let us all become one people again.”

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.

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

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.

The foregoing views have long been entertained by me.