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[stamp: THE WHITE HOUSE
FEB 23 1914
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Challenge to Debate
Negos vs Senators

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Near Sir

As a Negro I have for years tried to bring before the general public the men who
have made a fortune by going up and down the land abusing the negro but they have
never had the courage by their many convictions to meet a negro face to face. I
here with send to you an excerpt from a 9500 worded letter sent to them to meet
me in a public debate upon the negro question. Nothing can stand alone
nor can it be long lived that is not based on reason and reason will not
stand in any government whose foundation has not been washed in blood.
Blood is the cement [?] of courage and bravery which which is not
possess by any coward and can not be crushed out of the negro by unjust laws,
lynching nor Constitutional discrimination. This letter speaks for
itself and it is open to all or any one who may dare to accept this challenge.
Is [farries?] the accolated negros [?] Vardaman Hoke Smith [?]
Cole Blease and the most eminent Right Rev John [Dihon?] Lord High priest
and Cardinal of the Order of the League of [?] and A. Malong
the shy gotten highway man the acrimonious attacks which they have
made upon the head of a poor and defenseless peoply burn with in their souls
with all the fury that the heat of their future homes can produce. As they drift
towards their future homes final end. They are afraid of me, for I was [borned?]
in Old Ky On the Bank of the Rubicon. I have set up my standard behind
me are marshalled and [?]of weak and and defensless men, women and childen
Gouge like a wild beast in a cage I show my teeth and hurl my defiance in
the fall of the world. If they be man or devil beast or demon who would dare to
cross the Rubicon and pick up the bow that Ulysses has laid upon its bank, who
has not the mark of Cain nor the blot of Lot upon his brow. I challenge dare and
defy you in the name of God to close the Rubicon, and meet me on equal
grounds. If there is not a streak of yellow in you Bend the Bow that Ulysses
sends you. The whole bunch of you are a set of [?]. The intelligent the
crummy mess the ingenuity of the Anglo Saxon, the plots and schemes, of the
Government, the press the silence of the pulpit against the negro will in the
end amount to nothing, as she the negro will with ease defend herself
against those who wouled wish her harm Bend the Bow that Ulysses sends
you after God. God had created the Heaven and the Earth. He peopled the earth
with human beings after his own likeness, and as he looked with favior upon his
handy work. He was much pleased. Men [waked?] in numbers, while the Earth was
transforming wildness to land of pleanty, cities and countries grew
until mighty kingdoms and empires covered the Earth. Nations rose
and fell. Africa became barbarbous. Asia sought after strange Gods then
[?] emerged from barbarity and the world again took on new life. Again
did God smile upon his people, with favor only to be decieve again