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Andrew Johnson: “We must equally avoid hasty assumptions of any natural impossibility for the two races to live side by side in a state…”

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We must equally avoid hasty assumptions of any natural impossibility for the two races to live side by side in a state of mutual benefit and good will.
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Andrew Johnson
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Johnson argues against the assumption that two races cannot coexist beneficially.

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