It should induce us to pause in a course of legislation which, looking solely to the attainment of political ends, fails to consider the rights it transgresses, the law which it violates, or the institutions which it imperils.
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No power exists in the Constitution authorizing the joint resolution or the supposed law--the only difference being that one would be more palpably unconstitutional and revolutionary than the other.
My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.
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