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Our present embarrassments proceed from failure to comprehend the case, or from perverse sympathy with Rebels,--all of which we inherit from the misrule of Andrew Johnson.
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Sumner criticizes the legacy of Andrew Johnson for complicating the Reconstruction process.
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