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The Black man is a permanent part of the American people.

It is hate the nigger and it can be brought into an election with telling effect.

He noted the unfairness of African Americans being subject to taxation without representation.

Douglass began to have second thoughts about moral suasion, arguing that the violence of slavery might demand a violent response.

Andrew Johnson was a racist like most white Americans of the time. But he was a racist who believed strongly that he cared about Black people.

Johnson turned out to be the absolute wrong president for his times, but that wasn't immediately clear to Douglass or the Republicans who worked with him during his first few months in office.

Slavery is not abolished until the Black man has the ballot.

Up to the time he assumed the Vice Presidency, Johnson remained on good terms with Nashville's African Americans.