abama

23 DRYADS GREEN,
Nov. 7, 1916.

_My dear Mr. Woodson:_

Your letter in the interest of THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY is
welcome. I will try to send you a subscriber or two.

Allow me to suggest a point. It may have been well covered
already without my knowing of it. In Louisiana and, I think, in
some other states, in Reconstruction days, the
lieutenant-governorship was conceded by the Republican party,
regularly, to a man of color. These men were sometimes, to say no
more, of high character and ability. Such a one in Louisiana was
Oscar J. Dunn, the first of them. He was of unmixt African
origin. His signal ability and high integrity were acknowledged
by his political enemies in the most rancorous days of his
career, and his funeral was attended by Confederate generals.

I wish your enterprise the fullest measure of success.

Yours truly,
(Signed) GEO. W. CABLE.

WASHINGTON, D.C.
1443 R ST., N. W.,
NOV. 1 --17.

MR. CARTER G. WOODSON,
1216 You St., N.W.,
Washington, D. C.

_Dear Sir:_

I recently received from you a letter followed soon by a volume
of THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY edited by yourself which I have
scanned and am much impressed with its merits and consider a
valuable contribution to our historical literature.

It is somewhat unusual to find colored men in America of American
birth who are individually conversant with all of the West Indies
a part of South America and the western part of Europe.

My advent in life began at an epoch in the early history of
Baltimore when incidents occurred that seem to have escaped the
notice of the numerous writers of the history of our race which I
shall briefly relate.

Owing to the rapid decadence of the sugar industries of the
British West Indies on the Abolition of Slavery and the gravity
anent the threatened ruin of the peasantry, some philanthropists
and business men from England were sent to Baltimore to try to
get free colored people to go to Trinidad. They spoke in many
colored chur