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seven chillun. Alex, dat‘s de one name for me, is in Tampa, Florida. Carrie marry a Coleman and is in Charlotte, N~ C. Jimmie is dead. Thomas

V	~ ~ Charleston, S. C. Emma rparry a Belton and lives wid her husband in

~fld~eway, S. C. I stay wid nty son, Chancy, up de country.

	ttI voted one time :i~n 1876, for Goy. Chamberlain, but when I moved


to Larster Tom ~ I thought so much of him, I just quit voting. I

-.	~ou1d lak to vote one more time to say: ~I have vote one time wid de black part of ~v nature, dis taie I votes\wid de white side of ri~r nature.‘ V~hat you laughin1 ‘bout? If it was de call of dark blood de fust time, nmybe~itts de call of de white blooddis time. You have no idea de worry azid de pain a mulatto have to carry all his eighty-four years. Forced to ‘sociate wid one side, proud to be related to de other side. Neither side lak de color of your skin. I jine de Methodist church here in i~oro and ‘tend often as I can
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~	and. as I hear my preacher Owens ~preach,/dere will be no sex in hebben, I ~hopes and prays dat d.ere‘ll be xio sich thing as a color line in hebben.

	“Who de best white men I ever know? ~:Ir. Tom i3rice,Mr. W. L.Ros— borough, ~. Watt Sinonton, and Mr. August Nicholson. i~asterBill ~3eaty, dat

-	marry my young mistress ‚ Elizabeth, was a fine n~.n. •

	“What I ththk of Abe Lincoln? What I think of Mr. Roosevelt? Dere de color come up again. De black say 1k‘. Lintoln de best Pi‘esident us ever have ; de white s ay - us never have had and never will have a Pre s ident equal of
	Mr. Roosevelt.“	~ .
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