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You have no understanding of what it is to live in a community surcharged with an idle, dissolute, vicious, ignorant negro population just emerged from slavery.

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Edgar Cowan

Born: September 19, 1815
Died: August 31, 1885
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Profession: Dred Scott V. Sandford

Biography

Edgar Cowan was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate during the American Civil War.

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