Andrew Johnson: “If Congress is satisfied that Nebraska at the present time possesses…”

On the recordJanuary 28, 1867

If Congress is satisfied that Nebraska at the present time possesses sufficient population to entitle her to full representation in the councils of the nation, and that her people desire an exchange of a Territorial for a State government, good faith would seem to demand that she should be admitted without further requirements than those expressed in the enabling act, with all of which, it is asserted in the preamble, her inhabitants have complied.

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Andrew Johnson

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