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 from office as Secretary of War, and will cease to exercise a..."

"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, all records, books, and other property now in your custody ..."

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

"They apply equally well to the bill now before me, and I am content merely to refer to them and to reiterate my conviction that they are sound and unanswerable."