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Yours truly,
Sarah E. Williams
Chester (lap, Va.
P.S. You can send this letter to the Rappahannock News if you feel that it will help any to have it published.
YOUR
CONGRESSMAN
( REPORTS
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Washington—It is "civil rights" time in Wahsington. and. if it were not for the inflammatory nature of tihe repressive proposals being given serious consideration, the furore could be discounted, in large measure, as an election year phenomenon of little lasting consequence.'
1M fact, however, the Congress has before it a conglomeration of legislation which, on the claim of safeguarding the rights of citizens, embraces the most punitive measures advanced against the South siitce Reconstruction days.
(Because this report must be written some days in advance of publication, reference to the current news colums is suggested for the latest developments in the parallel drives in 'House and Senate.)
There is no more callous and cynical exhibition in the drama of American politics than the electonkeyed eruptions of synthetic "rights" fervor in the Congress, and in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. It is a bipartisan anti-south exhibition.an
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