I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space


The Papers of Andrew Johnson: 1862-1864 (ed. 1967)

Andrew Johnson Quotes

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my...

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my...

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my...

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my...