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New fields of enterprise would be opened to our progressive people and soon the devastations of war would be repaired and all traces of our domestic differences effaced from the minds of our countrymen.
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gutenberg.orgAndrew Johnson: “New fields of enterprise would be opened to our progressive people and soon the devastations of war would be repaired…”
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Johnson envisions new opportunities for progress and the healing of war's scars on the nation.
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