A faithful and conscientious magistrate will concede very much to honest error, and something even to perverse malice, before he will endanger the public peace; and he will not adopt forcible measures, or such as might lead to force, as long as those which are peaceable remain open to him or to his constituents.
He describes the responsibilities of a magistrate to maintain public peace and avoid forceful measures unless absolutely necessary.
Share
More from Andrew Johnson
The danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in the Constitution.
I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.
With these brief suggestions the bill is respectfully returned, and the consideration of Congress invited to the accompanying preamble and resolutions.
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.
Other voices in this conversation
