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THE WHITE HOUSE
JUL 16 1913
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Newark, N. J., July 15, 1913.

Mr. J. L. Tumulty,
Sec'y to Pres. of U. S. A.

Dear Sir:

Having written our honored prosident on the 21st of
last February concerning a bill to pension all negroes born of
slave parents before the first day of Jan. 1865, 8 people who
deserve the consideration of the whole civilized world, a people
who was worked, bought and sold for upwards of 245 years, and
as late as 1865 was turned out in a competitive country without
one cent as a compensation, or one inch of ground as an inherit-
ance.

In reply to my letter you told me that the president would
appreciate suggestions from all of those interested in his admin-
istration and my letter would be called to his attention as soon
as possible. Having waited patiently for about 6 months and not
having heard whether my letter reached his Honor, the president,
I thought I would write again concerning the same, after seeing
such letters and publications as Miss Greenfields asking the pres-
ident to use his great office and influence to prevent a tariff on
banana, on account of the poor children of New York City, and we
have upwards of 350,000 or 400,000 ex-slaves in this country, who,
with their ancestors were bought and sold, after working in the
cotton and corn field, making canals and railroad beds and cutting
the forests and digging up the roots without anything as a compen-
sation, are far more important in the eyes of civilization and a

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