Andrew Johnson, by Paul Raymond Audibert, Paris.

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Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States, (1865-1969) Born Raleigh, N.C., December 29, 1808; died near Carter's Station, Tenn., July 31, 1878. The following is excerpted from the coverleaf of the engraving:

"The man of whom we now speak in his youth was poor, unlettered, and obscure. He had a native vigor of mind and body, and the unfettered opportunity afforded by our institutions of government to test freely his capacities in any direction he saw fit. His necessities compelled him to seek employment as a mechanic, and by the labor of his hands he earned his bread; but in all those years of toil he ommited no opportunity or effort to supply the deficiences in his eary education and mental culture. He presented himself as a candidate for public station, and by the suffrages of his fellow-citizens he rose step by step until he became a member of the coordinate House of Congress, then of this body (the Senate), and afterward its presiding officer; then, by an event whose dreadful tragedy shocked the whole country, he became President of the United States."***

"Friend and foe alike must admit his steady, unshaken love of country; his constant industry; his simple integrity and honesty; his courage of conviction, that never faltered. All these are worthy examples for the emulation of American youth and the youth of all lands. These home-bred virtures induced a life of simplicity and thoughtful economy; kept his hand clean from even a suspicion of improper gain, and in a long public career preserved him from the many temptations that so often warp men of strong passions and vigorous character like his from the path of duty. He possessed and cherished the fine old-fashioned sense of propriety that prevented his acceptance of gifts from any source or any nature during his tenure of high official power and patronage, even though proffered in the guise of warm personal and patriotic friendship. His performance of public and official duties was marked by industry and constant care."

"Qualities and habits such as these surely are entitled to thankful recognition, and being admirable and wholesome, are always examples needed by a people; by none more than those living under a republican form of government, never more than in the times in which we live."

"Andrew Johnson's rise and success in life will ever be an encouragement and incentive to the poor and friendless among his countrymen to cultivate their intellectual faculties; to neglect no opportunity for the best and most important education--self-education; to be industrious and frugal, that they may be, and continue to be, honest men; to avoid those extravagent modes of living which create temptations so difficult to resist; to be steadfast in adversity, and ever faithful to the government which protects them."--THOMAS F. BAYARD, from Memorial Address in Congress, January 12, 1876."