If calm reflection shall satisfy a majority of your honorable bodies that the acts referred to are not only a violation of the national faith, but in direct conflict with the Constitution, I dare not permit myself to doubt that you will immediately strike them from the statute book.
Johnson urges Congress to reconsider military governance over Southern states, framing it as a violation of national faith and the Constitution.
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