The Southern trade, from which the North would have derived so great a profit under a government of law, still languishes, and can never be revived until it ceases to be fettered by the arbitrary power which makes all its operations unsafe.
Johnson argues that Southern trade cannot thrive under oppressive governance.
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I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to a resolution of the 9th instant, the accompanying report from the Secretary of State.
I have been unable to find in the Constitution of the United States any warrant for the exercise of the authority thus claimed by Congress.
I transmit to Congress the accompanying documents, which I deem it proper to state are all the papers* that have been submitted to the President relating to the proceedings to which they refer in the States of South Carolina and Arkansas.
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.
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