Tao Te Ching
William Brown Cooper
Andrew Johnson
1808 – 1875 CE
The first impeached and one of the most egregious of the white supremacist US presidents
First US president impeached in trials that became the country's biggest entertainment focus with color-coded, prized tickets going to the likes of Walt Whitman and Anthony Trollope; Andrew Johnson—who never attended school—openly embraced white supremacy, defied Congress and the Constitution, tried to assume king-like powers, turned the attorney general into his spin doctor, and obstructed justice in every direction. Claiming the US as a "country for white men," he vetoed the Civil Rights bill, gave amnesty to more than 7000 Confederate war criminals, and yelled speeches advocating for the execution of his political opponents, and helped create much of the South's post-war problems.
Born in poverty and uneducated, he attempted to reestablish slavery with a different name by encouraging laws like the "black codes," laws that made it illegal for former slaves to rent or buy land, and stealing land given to former slaves which was then given to the former plantation owners.
After Mark Twain called Congress "damned cowards" for not impeaching him, the House voted 126 to 47 for impeachment but it failed in the Senate by one vote, the vote of Edmund Ross who was believed to have been bribed but became one of Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage."
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Quotes by Andrew Johnson (4 quotes)
“Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.”
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“There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.”
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“I have lived among Negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery ... Before I would see this Government destroyed, I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space.”
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“Those damned sons of bitches thought they had me in a trap! I know that damned Douglass; he's just like any nigger, and he would sooner cut a white man's throat than not.”
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Quotes about Andrew Johnson (5 quotes)
“There are moments in the lives of most men when the doors of their souls are open and their true characters may be read... when Mr. Lincoln pointed me out to him, the first expression which came to his face was one of bitter contempt and aversion... Whatever Andrew Johnson may be, he certainly is no friend of our race.”
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“Johnson vetoed bills to help Negroes; he made it easy for Confederate states to come back into the Union without guaranteeing equal rights to blacks... made the freed slaves like serfs, still working the plantations [with] labor contracts they could not break under penalty of prison... provided that the courts could assign black children to forced labor with punishment for runaways.”
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“A man unable to rise to the demands of one of the most challenging moments in our nation's history... Andrew Johnson was a stubborn, racist politician, whose policies alienated not only Radicals, who never controlled Congress, but the vast majority of Republicans.”
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“No man in Tennessee has done more than Andrew Johnson to create, to perpetuate and embitter in the minds of the Southern people, that feeling of jealousy and hostility against the free States, which has at length culminated in rebellion and civil war. Up to 1860, he had been for 20 years among the most bigoted and intolerant of the advocates of slavery and Southernism.
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