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“Our people have the vigor and determination to preserve our liberties and the fundamental con cepts of the republic. We have been singularly free of unscrupulous politicians who promote and foster popular prejudice to gain and hold office, influence and poweri
“The white and Negro races of Virginia have lived together jn peace, harmony, and understanding for more than three hundred years—longer than any other place in the Western Hemisphere. They will continue to do so, if left free from the extraneous and unwarranted interference of the Humphreys, the Harrimans and their ilk who know nothing of the Negro and care less except to use him. as a vehicle upon which to ride into high public offfice. v “There has not been a death by lynching in Virginia since the passage of the Byrd anti-lynch law in 1328. This indefensible crime is all but extinct in the South—the incontrovertible and final answer to continued agitation for Federal anti-lynch laws.
“Our government is efficient
and economical and clean.
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