President Johnson: “EXHIBIT A” Identifies The Law’s Subject Beneficiaries

(veto directory)

In a sense of “duty to the whole people and my obligations to the Constitution”, by stating his reasons for not signing the 14th Amendment bill, in the form of the 1866 Civil Rights Act, he inadvertently identifies its proper Subject Beneficiaries.

Ironically, in the attempt to veto the 14th Amendment, the Hon. President, Andrew Johnson, became the “EXHIT A” by correctly identifying African American, chattel slaves, and their descendants as the Subject Beneficiaries of the 14th Amendment.

Below are references to the identity of the Subject Beneficiaries, mentioned 15 times by Mr. Johnson.
They are in Sentences

1. # 6 – “the several excepted races”
2. #8 – “entire colored population and all other excepted classes.”
3. # 9 – “Four million have just emerged from slavery into freedom.”
4. # 10 – “give like protection and benefits to those for whom this bill provides special legislation.”
5. # 12 – “in favor of the negro”
               Note: No mention of immigrants.  An “Anchor baby” can’t be inserted anywhere in this veto letter.
6. # 13 – “to be enjoyed by these classes”
7. # 14 – “as is enjoyed by white citizens.”
8. # 16 – “equality of the white and colored races”
9. # 17 – “any power of discrimination between the different races”
10. # 22 – “State laws discriminating between whites and blacks…between the two races”
11. # 23 – “without regard to color or race”
12. # 25 – “discriminating protection to colored persons”
13. # 28 – “the Freedmen’s Bureau”
14. # 36 – “the colored race” and “for the white race”
15. # 37 – “the distinction of race and color” and “the colored and against the white race.

See: What Johnson Feared