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President Roosevelt asks West Point Superintendent Scott if there is anything that can be done within the bounds of propriety and fairness to make sure Stonewall Jackson’s grandson Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian graduates with his class at West Point.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-31
President Roosevelt does not want to commute the sentence of Benjamin G. Hill, who was convicted of murdering his wife. He will defer Hill’s execution and go over the evidence again if Attorney General Knox still favors clemency.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-18
John Allison encloses a letter to the editor from the Nashville Banner for President Roosevelt to read. Allison tells Roosevelt that this communication verifies what he wrote in a letter to William Loeb. Allison believes that racial traits define how African Americans act when they protect other members of their race from what Allison describes as “lawful” punishment. He says that an African American clergyman, J.A. Jones, admitted this. Allison cannot remember a time when an African American denounced or condemned the criminal acts of another African American. He says while mob violence is sometimes “winked” at by the community and (police) officers, “it is condemned by the White pulpit in the South, almost all of the newspapers of influence, and by public meetings of the White population.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-24