Andrew Johnson said...

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 5th of February, last, calling for the correspondence upon the subject ...

Copies of the letters which they have addressed to me upon the subject are accordingly herewith inclosed.

It was to prevent such an appointment that I accepted the office of Secretary of War ad interim.

I will only notice one more statement in your letter of the 3d instant—that the performance of the promises which it is ...