Historical Telegram: Telegram from Andrew Johnson to Montgomery Blair, Tuesday, November 24, 1863 (Telegram concerning Lincoln's Reconstruction Policy)

Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan & the Wade Davis Bill He Vetoed

Historical Telegram: Telegram from Andrew Johnson to Montgomery Blair, Tuesday, November 24, 1863 (Telegram concerning Lincoln's Reconstruction Policy)

11/24/1863

Historical Telegram

The Library of Congress presents an 1863 historical telegram, from Andrew Johnson to Montgomery Blair, that addresses Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan. Johnson says in regards to the plan that, "the institution of slavery is gone and there is no good reason now for destroying the states to bring about the destruction of slavery."

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