
Veto of the First Reconstruction Act
Source: Andrew Johnson, “Veto Message,” March 2, 1867. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://goo.gl/LbX7C2. I have examined the bill “to provide for the

Source: Andrew Johnson, “Veto Message,” March 2, 1867. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://goo.gl/LbX7C2. I have examined the bill “to provide for the

Source: Andrew Johnson, “Proclamation 136 – Reorganizing a Constitutional Government in Mississippi,” June 13, 1865. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. https://goo.gl/XLjiRC. Whereas the

Governor William L. Sharkey, Jackson, Miss. I am gratified to see that you have organized your Convention without difficulty. I hope that without delay your Convention will amend your State

To the Senate of the United States: I regret that the bill which has passed both Houses of Congress, entitled “An Act to protect all persons in the United States

To the Senate of the United States: I have examined with care the bill which originated in the Senate, and has been passed by the two Houses of Congress, to

Fellow-citizens for I presume I have the right to address you as such to the committee who have conducted and organized this meeting so far, I have to render my

Whereas, the President of the United States, on the 8th day of December, A. D. 1863, and on the 26th day of March, A. D. 1864, did, with the object

Message of the President of the United States, 40th Cong., 3rd sess., Congressional Globe, Appendix p. 1. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=087/llcg087.db&recNum=428 Fellow—Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: Upon the reassembling of Congress it

Source: James D. Richardson, ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897. Volume VI (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1897), 558-81. . . . How far

Message of the President of the United States, 39th Cong., 2nd sess., Congressional Globe, Appendix p. 1. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=077/llcg077.db&recNum=620 Fellow—Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: After a brief interval the Congress