I have considered the bill entitled 'An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,'' passed March 2, 1867, and to facilitate restoration.
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Feeling constrained to withhold my consent, I herewith return the resolution to the Senate, in which House it originated, with a brief statement of the reasons which have induced my action.
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 danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in the Constitution.
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.
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