Sunday, September 10, 2017

Andrew Johnson in the United States House of Representatives, June 5, 1860

My position is, that Congress has no power to interfere with the subject of slavery; that it is an institution local in its character and peculiar to the States where it exists, and no other power has the right to control it.

SOURCE: Frank Moore, Speeches of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, p. xvi

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