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have taken and borne a leading part. It was their labor in the cotton
fields of the South that made cotton king. The same may be said
as to the cane fields in the same section. In the defense of the
nation on many bloody-stained battle fields the blood of this race
was amongst the first to baptize its soil. For all this You,
Mr. President, and others who believe with you that they are aliens
and should be segregated from their fellows and their rights
withheld as American citizens. Have you forgotten Sir, how well
they served the men of your section, their fidelity to you when
in need, their care of your families while you were on the
tented field, how tenderly the owmen of this race assisted in
nursing you back to health? What the men and women of our race
have done for the White men and women of the South in the past
should from sheer gratitude make them to-day the friends of our
people instead of their worst enemies.

All that we ask, Mr. President, from you is simply
fair play, that justice that one man is entitled to at the hands
of another to receive. We also say to you that no question
of wrong is settled until it is settled with right and justice
to all, in which color or skin should he an unknown quantity.
Every man and woman in this land is entitled to this and will fight
to secure it. It is to you, Mr. President, to undo this great
wrong under which we suffer and to which our Committee who waited

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