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[stamp: THE WHITE HOUSE
NOV 30 1914
RECEIVED]

American Colonization Association.
M.M. Madden, Supreme President,
Home Office, Oklahoma City, Okla.
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Oklahoma City,Okla.Nov.27th,1914.

To His Excellency,
Hon. Woodrow Wilson
President of the United States.

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Sir:

Please permit me through the medium of expression to utter ny dissa-
proval of the manner in which Mr. W.M. Trotter addressed you as President of
the United States. I feel under many obligations to ask you apoligies for the
manner in which Mr. Trotter addressed you. I hope you will credit this as an
error of the head instead of the heart and not credit the same to the race as
a whole and as an individual error of a member of the race.

The better thinking part of our race does not think like Mr. Trotter.
Also kindly thanking you for your good will toward the race and your advice
to them with reference to a complete independence of the white people, may I
kindly call your attention to the fact that we have a movement on to that
effect and the same is incorporated under the laws of Oklahoma, I being the
Supreme President of said movement.

I have been addressing large congregations of persons for about eleven
months getting the endorsement of my people. I have men in every State. I hope
to get the endorsement of my people to represent before Congress with refer-
ence to colonizing them on American soil by national legislation; they to be
colonized on some thinly populated part of the United States, or some other
place that the government will prepare for them. Negro property throughout
the Union to be appraised and paid for by the government and to becone the
property of the government is the plan. Then, the Negroes are to be moved to
this new Liberia where they would reserve a right to make their own laws by
a treaty with the United States and at the same tine take an oath of allegi-
ence to protect the constitutional laws of the United States.

The object for getting the endorsement of the Negroes of America is to
do this without abridging the Constitution of the United States or repealing
any part of the same but simply stcoping to the wishes of the people for
good government.

Hoping you accept this as a letter of apology to the manner in which
Mr. Trotter has addressed you and also your endorsement of the movement that

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