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me very fully and a plan of opposition to the meeting was
mapped out. As a result, the committee in charge of the
Trotter meeting called it off and notified Mr. Trotter that
he need not undertake the trip to this city. The day before
yesterday I learned that several of the democrats, who curiously
enough were the most noisy advocates of the Trotter meeting.
were accusing me of a lack of race loyalty and were threatening
to organize a movement for my displacement as Collector of Internal
Revenue. While I am not at all fearful of the wrath of these gen-
tlemen I, nevertheless, feel that the President ought to know that
their opposition to me was due entirely to my success in preventing
them from disgracing themselves and damaging the race of which I
am so poor and so unsatisfactory a representative.

Youre yery respectfully.

Charles N. Anderson
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