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THE WHITE HOUSE
AUG 6 1913
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Mr. President,

I very much regret that such opposi-
tion to the negro democrat, from a state where the race prob-
lem must become even more accute than in the south,
should come from southern senators. Southern states-
men must recognize the worth of the negro who has risen
himself above the average of his race. The contempt of
the average American for all other races than the caucasian
— another example of race prejudice — is at the bottom of the
enmity, or unfriendliness of Mexicans, Latin-Anmericans and
other races to our people. How shall me follow up the
great work of our foreign Missionaries; or push our
trade relations with the Oriental and Latin-American
races when we officially and publicly manifest that
contempt for other races than our own?

The writer is the son of a "slaveowner" (though our "old Virginia"
negroes were never called slaves in his family) and a
life-long democrat. But he believe in "a square deal"
for the negro, politically and in the matter of educa-
tion, the Education that fits him for intelligent
work in what ever field may be open to him

A Treas'r for Mission work among negroes in
Tennessee, under Bishop Sailor, the writer has

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