Andrew Johnson: “Indeed, it is not too much to ask of the States which are now resuming their places in the family of the Union to give…”

My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.

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.

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.

I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.