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If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an equality with the poor white man.

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Andrew Johnson
Age: 66 †
Born: 1808
Born: December 29
Died: 1875
Died: July 31
17Th U.S. President
Military Officer
Politician
Slaveholder
Statesperson
Tailor
Raleigh
North Carolina
A. Johnson
President Johnson
Would
Poor
Colored
Men
Upon
Blacks
Bandy
White
Headed
Lipped
Given
Flat
Woolly
Place
Flats
Nosed
Country
Thick
Hump
Right
Equality
Footed
Every
Vote
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