JOHNSON, Andrew, President. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Johnson," with flourish) as Tennessee Senator, to A.J. Gardiner, Greenville, TN, 18 September 1860. Fine condition. Johnson, who opposed railroad expansion, responds to a request. our letter...desiring me to send you a copy of the Pacific Rail Road Report has been received. I am sorry to inform you that I have no spare copies." Johnson, in various public addresses, deplored the railroads for "their tendency to put inns and drovers out of business," and "voted against various railroad projects dear to the people of East Tennessee" (H. Trefousse, Andrew Johnson, p.38). In February 1861, Johnson voted against proposals for a rail line to the Pacific, although the bill passed in 1862.