Andrew Johnson: “In the present circumstances of the country someone must be held responsible for official delinquency of every kind.”

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.

The foregoing views have long been entertained by me.

My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.

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.