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[stamp: THE WHITE HOUSE
JUL 27 1916
RECEIVED]

To His Excellency, The President.
Washington, D.C.

Sir:-

I am herewith enclosing for your perusal a copy of a letter
which I am sending to the NEW YORK WORLD.

The Colored man, like other wholehearted Americans is sup-
porting you, chiefly because you have up-held the principle of un-
divided allegiance to America, for which a great number of citizens
who seem of divided allegiance to America, have organized and banded
themselves together to defeat you.

In my letter to the World I point out greivous conditions
in this country affecting the Colored man, and believing as I do that
some expression from you at this time calling the Country's attention
to the injustice those conditions impose, would go a long way toward
bringing about their harmonious adjustment, I take the liberty to be-
seech you to do so.

My position as County leader of the United Colored Democracy
of the Bronx, and like yourself, a proud son of the great State of
Virginia, enables me to speak with authority on the foregoing matters.

Hoping that you may deem it proper at this time to make such
a statement, I am,

Very sincerely yours,

Eengene McIntosh

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