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2my plan for "a more equal apportionment". You have only to turn upon your adversaries with that proposal, to completely silence the Northern cant about "Southern race prejudice", even if its practical execution should fail of its purpose to eliminate the negro from the american equation. I pray that God may give you strength and wisdom to act for the highest good of your race and country in every crucial test. With highest esteem, I remain,
Faithfully yours,
Annie Riley Hale
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TELEGRAM.
[stamp: ACK'D NOV 14 1914 T.M.H.]
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848am 14th
Tarboro, N.C.' Nov. 13,1914.
The President:
Dear Sir: Mr. Trotter does not represent the negroes of the United States. We believe that he should not have approached you with a minor domestic protest when you are filled with graver respensibilities, your recent bereavement and the burdens of a seeming international conflict; should have spared you such insolence. You are our President.
E. D. W. Jones, Pastor, A. M. K. Z. Church.
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HD., New Orleans, La., Nov.13,1914.
The President:
Speaking for nine-tenths of the intelligent negroes of this country, especially of the south, I congratulate you upon your kind words at your office to Chairman Trotter of the anti-segregation comittee, touching the progress of my race.
Pierre Landry, Marrying Prelate, City Board of Health.
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To His Excellency, Woodrow Wilson Preident of the United States
Kindly permit me to en close what a New Orleans paper edited abut the TROTTER incident. Now then let me tell you some thing about the Boston negro. Some years ago I was in Boston as well as in Washing ton, and the more insanely insolent negroes I ever struck up against in any part of the United States was the Boston Negro