Let us rather encourage them to honorable and useful industry, where it may be beneficial to themselves and to the country; and, instead of hasty anticipations of the certainty of failure, let there be nothing wanting to the fair trial of the experiment.
Johnson calls for support of freedmen in their pursuit of productive work rather than premature judgments of failure.
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The danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in the Constitution.
With these brief suggestions the bill is respectfully returned, and the consideration of Congress invited to the accompanying preamble and resolutions.
I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.
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