Andrew Johnson: “As the nature of government requires the power of removal, it was maintained that it should be exercised in this way by…”

I transmit herewith reports from the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney-General, prepared in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 17th December last, requesting information in reference to the seizure and…

I have been unable to find in the Constitution of the United States any warrant for the exercise of the authority thus claimed by Congress.

Strongly impressed with the truth of these views, I feel called upon by an imperative sense of duty to revive substantially the recommendation so often and so earnestly made by President Jackson.

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.