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11/13 191____.
Mr. Woodrow Wilson, President of U.S. Washington, D.C
[stamp: THE WHITE HOUSE NOV 16 1914 RECEIVED]
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My dear Sir,-
As a warm and stauch friend and supporter of yours, I am assuming the liberty of enclosing a "self-explantory" clipping.
If you will only send the illustrated "Trotter," down here, I'll promise you he will receive a very warm reception.
Believe me,
Yours most obediently, Edw. J. Mair.
N.B. Enclosed find folder of our little city.
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TELEGRAM.
[stamp: ACK'D NOV 14 1914 T.M.H.]
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1 PO JM 35 NL 9am 14th
Nov.13,1914.
The President:
Every democrat in the southland congratulates you as a man on the stand you took yesterday with the negro from Boston as much as they endorse every act of your official life. With best wishes.
R. S. Matthews.
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[stamp: THE WHITE HOUSE NOV 14 1914 RECEIVED]
Ackd 11/14/14
St. Paul School, Lawrenceville, Virginia, November 13th, 1914
President Woodrow Wilson, Washington, D.C.,
My dear President Wilson:—
I have just read an account of the happening in your private office on Thursday when you received a delegation of colored men who had come to ask for certain rights for their race. I am, indeed, very sorry, if Mr. Trotter, so the newepapers say, lost control of himself and became offensive to you and the others. I want to say in defence of ten millions of American Negroes that no such spirit, as demonstrated in your presence, meets with our approval. It is true that we are not given all we should have, but at the same time I have faith in the American White man, and I believe he will give the colored man a full measure. But we need to understand each other better and to appreciate all that is good and noble in both of us. In solving these many problens that come in this period of racial adjustment, it will be good to remember that definite action can be taken only when men reason together.
Thanking you for your interest in the colored race, I am;
Very sincerely yours, Irving [PC?] Merchant
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