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Now military governments, established for an indefinite period, would have offered no security for the early suppression of discontent, would have divided the people into the vanquishers and the vanquished, and would have envenomed hatred rather than have restored affection.

Andrew Johnsonverified·First Annual Message to Congress·December 4, 1865