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- GLC#
- GLC00150
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- May 12, 1866
- Author/Creator
- Cooper, Peter, 1791-1883
- Title
- to John Sherman
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ; Height: 24.6 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Cooper, an inventor and philanthropist, discusses disagreement between President Andrew Johnson and Congress regarding reconstruction. Suggests to Sherman, a Senator from Ohio, that Johnson and Congress require Southern Congressional members to take an Oath binding them to maintain the Constitution of the United States. Also recommends "that all persons who may at any time on the floor of Congress either advocate the right to secede from the Union, or the repudiation of the National debt, or propose any unrepublican laws ... shall be declared guilty of treason, and the party so offending, shall be expelled from Congress."
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