The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.6, page 366, 1901, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers From C. B. Church, Sr. Nigger Heaven was wonce New Orleans Agog Sir All you have said & don for the Nigger goes to naught hardly a day passes but you see a Nigger Lynched shot hung or Burned at the stake. the Nigger has brought al on them selves. Murdering and Rapeing white woman and children. the southern People are no less Law abiding or more vicious than they should be under the circumstances you know there is a million young men grown up that was not Born when the Nigger was turned loos Now they know who and how the Digger was turned loos and are as sower on them as the Digger they are taking no stock in the Lost cans so called. while these men is plowing they are saying to them selves it was for the Digger that my Father Rebelled against the Government of the United States that brought about this state of afairrs. Other wise I would be watching the Digger plow now he is watching me plow in this field and every furrow he plows he gets bitter on the Digger with the rising generation and the two million Dagoes in this country unless the Nigger attens his mooves I will giv him just two years to live in this country. the white man made riggers one becoming impudent presuming on ther being a white mans son. Booker The next to the worst mistake the southern people made was to let the Digger believe that Abraham Lincoln set them free which is not So it was the first gun fired at fort sumper that led up to the fredom of the riggers History tells you that Abraham Lincoln isued the Emancipation proclamation but failes to tell you that he isued two proclamations two years prior to that in which he implored in a begin'' tome to the Southern People to lay down ther armes and return to the Allgiance to the Government of the United States and they would be guaranteed in ther Person 8c popperty (Published in New york Herald and Tribune July 186~) What was meaned by your Propperty. was it not the Negro now Mr Nigger if the sothern people had excepted that propposition what would] be your condition to day. Abraham LincoIn was willing to sell you in Purpetual bondage for the Presorvation of the Union. Lincoin isued the Emancipa366