Andrew Johnson actually said...

This instrument provides for a cession of territory to the United States in consideration of the payment of $7,200,000 in gold.

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07/05/1867

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I am President, and I am President of the whole United States.

He who is opposed to the restoration of this government and the reunion of the States, is as great a traitor as Jeff. Davis or Wendell Phill...

I am not the Chief Justice. I am not the prosecuting attorney.

Large as it is, it is not large enough to divide.