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Suffrage limitations in the South

Suffrage limitations in the South

The editorial writer claims that northern newspapers have not presented an accurate account of suffrage in the South. The article discusses how the requirements for voting registration will “disfranchise only the ignorant and the thriftless negroes.” The author notes that there may be some areas where black citizens meeting these qualifications are still refused the vote. He argues that “the remedy for this condition…is not the repeal of the Constitution, but the just and equable enforcement of the Constitution.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-12

Creator(s)

Unknown

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lawrence F. Abbott

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lawrence F. Abbott

President Roosevelt clarifies William H. Taft’s opinion on the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, and on the appointment of African Americans, for Lawrence F. Abbott. Namely, that Taft shares Roosevelt’s sentiments, as well as those of The Outlook, on Mississippi Governor James Kimble Vardaman and Representative John Sharp Williams. Roosevelt offers a list of the principle African American appointments he has made while in office, and encourages Abbott to contact Booker T. Washington for further statement on the character of the appointees.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-06

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Maurice Francis Egan

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Maurice Francis Egan

President Roosevelt has received praise for Minister to Denmark Maurice Francis Egan, along with John Wallace Riddle and David Jayne Hill, from Nicholas Butler Murray. Roosevelt is confused by the rates of depression and tendency toward socialism in Denmark, a country of farmers. Mississippi is the most agricultural state in the United States, and Roosevelt concludes that although there are many great Mississippians, a mixture of farmers and townsfolk is the best population to have.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from William K. Kavanaugh to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from William K. Kavanaugh to Theodore Roosevelt

William K. Kavanaugh, President of Great-Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway Association, encloses a speech he gave in which he mentioned Theodore Roosevelt and hopes Roosevelt will read it. Kavanaugh also mentions that the people of the Mississippi Valley are still talking about Roosevelt’s visit and speech at the Memphis Convention several years ago.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-11

Creator(s)

Kavanaugh, William K. (William Kerr), 1860-1932

Marse Theodore

Marse Theodore

President Roosevelt, as a southern plantation owner, rides on a donkey, holding an umbrella, a jug of “Corn Lickker” behind him. William Loeb walks behind, holding the donkey’s tail. In the background, perched on a tree, is a bird labeled “Vardaman.” Caption: “Way down South in the land of cotton.”

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-10-18

President Roosevelt in Mississippi

President Roosevelt in Mississippi

President Roosevelt is seen holding a gun and ready for a hunting trip as bears flee in the background. Caption reads, “Associated Press Dispatch – Most of the men sat on cotton bales. They showed their white teeth in hard grins, but made no other demonstration as the president stepped from the train. He was clad in a hunting costume – khaki riding trousers, heavy leather leggings, blue flannel shirt, corduroy coat and wore on his head a brown slouch hat. Around his waist was buckled a cartridge belt and at his side hung his ivory handled hunting knife.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-11-15

Creator(s)

Gregg, Lewis Crumley, 1880-1957

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Sharp Williams

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Sharp Williams

President Roosevelt responds to Representative Williams’s claim that he does not understand the South. Although Roosevelt is “greatly puzzled” by some difficulties he has encountered in the South, he has tried to treat the Southern States fairly. Roosevelt believes there are no issues with what he has done in the South but how he has been misrepresented in the South. The president is fine if people disagree with his policies, but he does not like when the facts are misrepresented. He mentions statements made by Alabama Senator John Tyler Morgan and Williams himself that were incorrect. Roosevelt does not appreciate the application of base motives to the president of the United States, and believes if the people of the South have been misled, it is because Southern leaders have misled them. Roosevelt also does not appreciate white men in the South trying to get their vote to count more than those in the North, and believes African American men should be judged by the same tests as “ignorant, vicious and shiftless whites.” Roosevelt closes by saying that what the South “really needs” is for her leaders to tell the truth.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919