Andrew Johnson: “But in this case the end itself is evil, as well as the means.”

The danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in the Constitution.

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 foregoing views have long been entertained by me.

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.