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this statement. I wish to state that there is no exception when I say that Southern
Senator and Representatives are with out national diplomic potitical
honors. They are the very embodiment of all that is nauseous to the American
people and their greatest forte while in office is Nepotisom. The vast matority of
them loose all sense of honor & become political proletarians, and whose very
acts are always questionable. Standing here on the Banks of the Gulf of despair
I clench my fist and shake the same in your face, and I say D____ you come out
and meet me on equal grounds. Your haste in getting this letter into the hands
of the Government my cause your heels to brake neck, or for you to become a
[Eunach?] for the remainder of your life, but your dastardly nerves will never
let you accept this challenge. You are proud, malicious and greedy. You are
not only a publicity hunter but a lying contemptable sensationalist
and a braggart, as well. Were it only one of those beautiful Octoroons of
whom white men of the South forsake there, in which the south abounds
for her charmes. Were I to offer myself as a free public commodity, I would have to apply
to the police for protection, as every Old Copper Slimy Head Devil, South of Mason
and Dixie line, would swarm around my door like flies around a sugar barrel.
The worlds knows that the United States has always sent gentlemen to her United States
Senate but here of late abound of knaves whos foul mendacities has become
[?] even to the unbalanced mind of kind have become Senators of these
United States until today they all but control the very destiny of the
country. The [?] of their ancestors has so concreted their minds
that today the very sight of a Negro acts upon their nerves like tonic does to the
system. These white [leveled?] [?] scorpions with their rattle snake
brains and viper heart, these modern days Negros would plung this fair
land of ours into darkness and sorrow. They would sell flesh for personal
honor. Wear the shoe if it fits you. These [Hydras?] who look nine different ways and
speak fifty delight in stirring up enmity between the Whites and the Blacks of
this Country. Negros upon bended knees with the olive branch in one hand and
a glass of ice cream soda in the othe with quivering lips and a faint heart have for
years tried to get you to meet them in a public debate. You turned them down and
went right on pouring hot coals of fire upon our heads. I do not come to you as a king
nor as a serf, neither do I appear before you as a man or a [debator?], but as a
gladiator turned for the fray ready to meet eny Devil, man of [?]
or demon. In my right hand I hold the Bow of Ulysses in my left my challenge
and by the God that you serve by there is one spark of manhood in you. If you
have not the mark of Cain, nor the blot of Lot upon you, I challenge you, one and all
to meet me in a public debate. Bend the Bow that Ulysses sends you or forever
hold your peace. The [?] of Tilman, Vardaman and [?] who both
are cowards and liars and a disgrace to the public life of America is the virus
of the whole social and political life the South. When the South learns to bar
all d_____ [?] and [?] like them, then the world will look upon the
South with much favor Michael backed by the Angelic Hoste of Heaven brave

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