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March 11, 1866
The Daily Gate City
Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa
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John Minor Botts publishes a letter expressing confidence that President Johnson will not concede to Northern Copperheads or Southern Coppertails, praising his integrity, but warns of the dangers from reconstructed rebels potentially gaining power, especially if war occurs.
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JOHN MINOR BOTTS ON THE PRESIDENT.
John Minor Botts, who has been here much of the time during the past year, gives his opinion of President Johnson's course in a letter just published, in which he says:
"I am not one of those who entertain the opinion that Mr. Johnson has intended or means now to make any concessions to the Copperheads of the North or the Coppertails of the South. To the credit of human nature be it said that our history has furnished not even one instance of such revolting turpitude and depravity as would be exhibited by his tergiversation at such a time as this, and under such circumstances as now exist."
Mr. Botts, however, evidently places no great dependence upon some of the reconstructed rebels:
"I am not silly enough," he says, "to apprehend another rebellion, but I do fear the ascendency of this party to power, and I do fear that power if the country should by any misfortune become involved in a foreign war, which I have every reason to believe is anxiously prayed for by many who have recently taken the oath of strict fidelity to the United States, as contained in the amnesty oath."
John Minor Botts, who has been here much of the time during the past year, gives his opinion of President Johnson's course in a letter just published, in which he says:
"I am not one of those who entertain the opinion that Mr. Johnson has intended or means now to make any concessions to the Copperheads of the North or the Coppertails of the South. To the credit of human nature be it said that our history has furnished not even one instance of such revolting turpitude and depravity as would be exhibited by his tergiversation at such a time as this, and under such circumstances as now exist."
Mr. Botts, however, evidently places no great dependence upon some of the reconstructed rebels:
"I am not silly enough," he says, "to apprehend another rebellion, but I do fear the ascendency of this party to power, and I do fear that power if the country should by any misfortune become involved in a foreign war, which I have every reason to believe is anxiously prayed for by many who have recently taken the oath of strict fidelity to the United States, as contained in the amnesty oath."
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Political Opinion
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John Minor Botts
President Johnson
Copperheads
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Reconstructed Rebels
Amnesty Oath
Foreign War
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John Minor Botts
President Johnson
Copperheads
Coppertails
Reconstructed Rebels
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John Minor Botts
President Johnson
Copperheads
Coppertails
Reconstructed Rebels
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John Minor Botts publishes a letter opining that President Johnson has not intended to concede to Northern Copperheads or Southern Coppertails, crediting him with avoiding turpitude; however, Botts fears the rise to power of reconstructed rebels who may desire foreign war despite their amnesty oaths.