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,...

It is impossible to conceive any state of society more intolerable than this; and yet it is to this condition that 12,000,000 American citiz...

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