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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Declaration of William D. Kelley

Saturday Feb 22, 1868
House of Representatives, Washington D.C, U.S.

Expressing the widespread sentiment among House Republicans, Representative William D. Kelley (on February 22, 1868) declared: Sir, the bloody and untilled fields of the ten unreconstructed states, the unsheeted ghosts of the two thousand murdered negroes in Texas, cry, if the dead ever evoke vengeance, for the punishment of Andrew Johnson.


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