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then he would be a ‘tire?y different person to dis very day, I ic~ows dat.

	“Does I ‘member President Lincoln? I ~~t‘.does, but not so much, f cause I was t 00 young to have much s ense • I has heard ~r manrnry and daddy say he was a good man and wanted everybody to be free,, both white and black. Dere was a heap of poor white folks in slavery time, and some of them lived mi~hty hard, worse than the slaves sometimes. Yo~ knows blood is thick and ±t is gwine to turn to its kind beTh ‚ helpi& de others . Their say slavery . was wrong but what ‘baut hard times? Dat is de worse kind of slavery, I thinks • All dis hollerin‘ ‚ round ‚ bout freedom they has ‚ shucks ‚ all dat kind of talk ain‘t nothin‘ • ~ihen you has work and some money in your pocket

—	so you c&n go tode store and buy some meat and bread, thenyou has de best
	freedom there is, don‘t tell me. ~ ~	.

	~	1% Pres ident Roosevelt ~ is tnother . good man. He has looked ddv~n on de p~9or and ‘tressed in~ dis land wid mercy; has give work end- food to de poor people when. nobody else would. He sho‘ has turnt d1S country ‘round and ~

tried so hard to make things ~right wid de people. When he turn disway and turn dat way,~ them menup there where he is, try to stop him from helpi&

~ ‚. us, but-deBlessed Master is gwine to hold his hands up. ~ They ai.&t gwine • ~to be able to ‘stop h5iii, ‘cause he has done so~mueh good ‘in de world. Dat

‚ man is ~w‘ine to be ‘membered by de people always, but them da~ has fought •~ ‚

‚ -	‘him and worked--against ~him is ~ho‘ gwine to be forgot. i~obody waiits to ‚ ‚ ‘member them for de evil they has done. You knows dat if you sows evil ‚ yoti -is sho‘ gwine to gather evil in time. They aintt gwine sow much longer; their harve~st tinie is right out dere in sight, but de President is ‘swine to

~ . live onwid us.	‚ ‚

„ „	~uI,8 gettin‘ old now, I has to draw ou de ‘membrance of de past, tottle
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