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-3spirit of morale to their soldiers fighting the mob spirit acrose the sea.
We call upon every colored man and woman in the land to be care-
ful to abstain from evil so as to give no occasion for the outbreak of the mob spirit.
We further call upon our people to cooperate with new zeal in every part of the war progran to the end that the spirit of injustice
may be removed from the face of the earth, both at home and abroad.
And now may the God of battles that hovered oner Washington
and Lincoln guard and guideyou that in his own time and way the feet of the nation may be led into the way of peace.
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COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE WASHINGTON
STATE COUNCILS SECTION
Ackgd 8/5/18
August 5, 1918.
Honorable Joseph P. Tumulty, Secretary to the President, White House, Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. Tumulty:
This office desires to have printed for distribution to the State, County and Community Councils the President's statement of July 26th relative to mob action.
Will there be any objection to our having the signature of the President to that statement printed in facsimile?
Your early answer will be appreciated.
Very truly yours,
Arthur H. Elening Chief of Section.
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NATIONAL OFFICERS PRESIDENT
MOORTIELD STORFY
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE
EKECUTIVE OFTICERS
ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
PROFOSES TO MAKE 110OO.OOO AMERICANS PHYSICALIY
VICEPRESIDENTS ARCHIBALD H. GAIMKE
TREE FROM FEONAGE, MENTALLY TREE FROM IGNORANCE
POLITICALLY FREE FROMDISFRANCHISEMENT, AND
REV. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES
SOCIALLY TREE TROM INSULT
BISHOF JONN HURST
MARY WMITE OVINGTON
TIRLD SECRTTARY
WALTER F. WAITE ASSISTANT SECRTTANY
IELEPMONE CHELSEA 74SI
OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD
OF PUELICATIORS AND RESLARCH
JONN R. SMILLABY, SECRETARY
JAMES WELDON SOMNSON
70 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW VORRK
JOHN E. MILHOLLAND
MAIOR S. E. SPINCARH 0. S. VILLARD, TREASURER
Da. W. E. BS. DU BOts. DIRECTOR
August 9. 1918. Mr. Joseph P. Tumulty, Secretary to the President,
Washington, D. C.
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My dear Sir: I had your prompt acknowledgment of the memorandum
submitted to the President by me on behalf of this Association on
July 25. This memorandum concerned the lynching of Negroes.
The Association is deeply gratified at the Presidents
strong and powerful denunciation of Lynching and mob violence. It
is difficult to see how the statement the President has made could
be improved upon. It is in every sense admirable.
There is one thing to which I should like to direct your attention and that is as to whether the President would think the following fact important enough to warrant his attention; that
on July 10 the Assistant Secretary of the Association presented to Governor Dorsey of Georgia the names of seventeen participants in
the mob which had lynched the first two of eleven victims of the
orgy of lynching which occurred during four days in May. The
memorandum presented by our Assistant Secretary to Governor Dorsey
on that occasion accompanies my letter on lynching to the President,
under date of July 25, and is Exhibit A. This Exhibit contains the
names of the seventeen alleged lynchers. Press stories published
widely on Monday, August 5, do not give the names as we have not
yet released them for the press.
World.
I am enclosing you a clipping from the New Tork Sincerely yours,
John PR. Shillady Secretaty.
IRS/RR
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THE FORLD: MOND
Names of Two Alleged Kingeaders and Fitteen Others in
Georgia Mobs Are Given
to Gov. Dorsey. The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peopie has announced that two of the ringleaders
and Rfteen other members of mobs that lynched negroes in Brooks and Lowndes Counties, Georgia, last May
have been named to Gov. Dorsey of Georgia. The information was got by
Walter F. White, Assistant Secretary of the association, who made a per-
sonal Investigation.
Mr. Whites
Andings were submitted to Gov. Dor-
sey on July 10, and a copy was malled to President Wilson.
Eleven Nevroes Eracbed.
A summary of his report says:
instead of six victims of the mobs
which ranged over Brooks and Lown.
des Counties from May 17 to May 22. eleven authenticated cases were dis-
covered during an investigation of the
circumstances surrounding the Kiting of Hampton Smith, a white farmf of
Brooks County, Ga., and the wanding of his wife near Barney. Cs or
ay 16. and of the lynchings pich
followed.