Saturday, September 6, 2008

It was Andrew Johnson of Tennessee,

who, in the Senate of the United States, when the secessionists were deserting their posts, dared to say to them as he significantly shook his finger at Jeff Davis, “If I were the President I would arrest you as traitors, try you as traitors, and hang you as traitors.”

– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, Saturday, July 9, 1864

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