Andrew Johnson actually said...

It reduces the whole population of the ten States--all persons, of every color, sex, and condition, and every stranger within their limits--...

To pronounce the supreme lawmaking power of an established state illegal is to say that law itself is unlawful.

The history of the world has been written in vain if it does not teach us that unrestrained authority can never be safely trusted in human h...

The bill in this respect conflicts, in my judgment, with the Constitution of the United States.