Andrew Johnson: “Business in the South is paralyzed by a sense of general insecurity, by the terror of confiscation, and the dread of…”

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and a report from the Secretary of the Navy, with accompanying papers.

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…

The danger of a defeat of the popular choice in an election by the House of Representatives is no greater than in an election made nominally by the people themselves.

Thus far during the existence of the Government the Supreme Court of the United States has been viewed by the people as the true expounder of their Constitution, and in the most violent party conflicts its judgments and decrees have always…