GOVERNOR B.F. PERRY: I thank you for your dispatch of the 28th instant. I have to congratulate your Convention upon its harmonious and successful amendments to the constitution. It affords great satisfaction here to all who favor a speedy restoration of all the States in the Union. Let this work go on, and we will soon be once more united, a prosperous and happy people, forgetting the past, looking with confidence to a prosperous and harmonious future.
ANDREW JOHNSON, President United States.
Source: John Savage, "Life and Public Services of Andrew Johnson".
Andrew Johnson, Message to Governor Benjamin Franklin Perry of South Carolina Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/355905