Andrew Johnson actually said...

I submit to Congress whether this measure is not in its whole character, scope, and object without precedent and without authority.

While a just, proper, and watchful jealousy of executive power constantly prevails, as it ought ever to prevail, yet it is equally true that...

I know no other way in which they can be preserved and maintained except by a constant adherence to them through the various vicissitudes of...

It reduces the whole population of the ten States--all persons, of every color, sex, and condition, and every stranger within their limits--...