Andrew Johnson actually said...

I feel well assured that it will be better to trust the rights, privileges, and immunities of the citizen to tribunals thus established, and presided over by competent and impartial judges, bound by fixed rules of law and evidence, and where the right of trial by jury is guaranteed and secured, than to the caprice or judgment of an officer of the Bureau, who it is possible may be entirely ignorant of the principles that underlie the just administration of the law.

07/15/1866

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"The board of registration have no authority to administer any other oath to the person applying for registration than this prescribed oath."
"The applicant for registration must be a citizen of the State and of the United States, and must be a resident of a county or parish included in the election district."
"No one who has been disfranchised for participation in any rebellion against the United States or for felony committed against the laws of any State or of the United States can take this oath."
"Disloyal sentiments, opinions, or sympathies would not disqualify, but where a person has by speech or by writing incited others to engage in rebellion he must come under the disqualification."

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