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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers the way the President is standing up and notwithstanding many things that I have tried to do to help the race, I notice that the enemies in Washingon and in Boston especially seem to be most active at the present time. Yours truly, Booker T. Washington TLS Con. ago BTW Papers DLC. From James H. Hayes N.Y. LCitY] Feb. 3, 19°3 Dear Sir: Having been informed by Bishop Walters, that you are or have been under the impression that the work we are trying to do—pushing the Virginia Suffrage Cases and arousing popular interest to the National Negro Suffrage Convention, Louisville, July Pith is in some way intended to critics you, I hasten to discIaim any such idea or intention. In me there is not the slightest desire for the usual ''killing off'' business in which the Negro has become an adept. Your place in history has been made. Your name has been written where it will never be erased. Should God call you now, yours would be among the few immortal names which will never die. I couldn't harm you if I would nor wouldn't if I could. I do not write this so much to disclaim, as to let you understand that I am not so silly as tto] think that anything, I can say will injure you. I enclose a clipping from the ''Sun'' of today. Res., Jas. H. Hayes ALS Con. ~49 BTW Papers DLC. ~ James H. Hayes (b. 185~), a graduate of Howard University Law School (~88~), was a lawyer in Richmond. He was the first president of the National Negro Suffrage League in 1903, and opposed the adoption of the Virginia Constitution of 1902 because of its Jim Crow provisions and voting restrictions. Hayes was one of only a few black lawyers in the South who publicly opposed BTW. go