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On the recordMarch 1, 1867
All the information I have on the subject convinces me that the masses of the Southern people and those who control their public acts [...] are completely united in the effort to reorganize their society on the basis of peace and to restore their mutual prosperity as rapidly and as completely as their circumstances will permit.
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Andrew Johnson
Democratic · Tennessee

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