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Title: A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1897.
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: United States. President Richardson, James D. (James Daniel), 1843-1914, comp
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Publisher: New York, : Bureau of National Literature, Inc.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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States will be acquired from themost authentic sources; because, as has been said, Each Presi-dent reviews the past, depicts the present and forecasts the futureof the nation. 3498-B Andrew Johnson April 15, 1865, to March 4, 1869 SEE ENCYCLOPEDIC INDEX. The Encyclopedic Index is not only an index to the other volumes, not only a key thatunlocks the treasures of the entire publication, but it is in itself an alphabetically arrangedbrief history or story of the great controlling events constituting the History of the UnitedStates. Under its proper alphabetical classification the story is told of every great subjectreferred to by any of the Presidents in their official Messages, and at the end of each articlethe official utterances of the Presidents themselves are cited upon the subject, so that youmay readily turn to the page in the body of the work itself for this original information. Next to the possession of knowledge is the ability to turn at will to where knowledgeis to be found.
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JOHNSON The three facts which will forever keep Andrew Johnsons name aliveare that he rose from a tailors bench to be Chief Magistrate of theRepublic; that he was the only Senator of the United States from anyseceding State that remained faithful to the Union, and that he was theonly President of the United States who was ever impeached, althoughbills of impeachment were prepared against John Tyler, a fact notgenerally known. Not only is there great prejudice against AndrewJohnson in the public mind, but his talents are also greatly underrated.In integrity of purpose, in personal and moral courage, in intensity ofpatriotism he has had no superior among our Presidents. That hisimpeachment marks one of the most dangerous epochs of Americanhistory there can now be no question among people whose opinion is atall worthy of respect. Even intelligent Republicans now take this viewof the matter. Not long since in a lecture delivered before a college in this city,Mr. Justice John M. Harlan, of

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