Veto Message
03/01/1867
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It is clear to my apprehension that the States lately in rebellion are still members of the National Union.
Business in the South is paralyzed by a sense of general insecurity, by the terror of confiscation, and the dread of Negro supremacy.
The great interests of the country require immediate relief from these enactments.
On the contrary, candor compels me to declare that at this time there is no Union as our fathers understood the term, and as they meant it t...