Andrew Johnson actually said...

By virtue of the power and authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States, you are hereby suspended f...

You will at once transfer to General Ulysses S. Grant, who has this day been authorized and empowered to act as Secretary of War ad interim,...

For reasons heretofore stated in my several veto messages to Congress upon the subject of reconstruction, I return without my approval the '...

The inevitable result is that the Federal Government, by the agency of its own sworn officers, in effect assumes the civil government of the...