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Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 Andrew Johnson on Negro Suffrage

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00269 Author/Creator: Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Broadside Date: 15 August 1865 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 22 cm, Width: 12 cm Order a Copy

[Title continued] His letter to Gov. Sharkey of Mississippi. Reconstruction era printing of Johnson's letter commending the governor's convention to amend the state constitution. In the letter, Johnson also attacks the radical Republicans.

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873

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