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The colored citizens of Ohio supported you, unanimously I imagine, in your election to the Senate, and I as one of them, and reflecting, I believe, the unanimous opinion of the thinking element of that group of our population, am intensely interested in the present situation in Haiti and Santo Domingo. I would respectfully suggest that it would greatly please me and all those who feel as I do, if you would support the conclusions set out at the end of the enclosed report on the military occupation of Haiti, and specifically the three resolutions introduced into the Senate by Senator King and now pending before the Foreign Relations Committee, numbers 219, 233 and 256, calling for the withdrawal of our forces from Haiti and Santo Domingo, for opposition to any loan to Haiti at the present time (the present proposed loan would subject Haitian finances and indirectly the Haitian Government to complete control by the United States for the next thirty or forty years), and finally, provide the practical means for the withdrawal of the American forces, the restitution of a genuine native government in Haiti and the transfer of governmental functions as now exercised by Americans to a re-constituted Haitian Government.
It is obvious from reading the list of lawyers who signed the enclosed report, that a great many other men besides colored people take the same view of this matter. I can assure you that so far as I and any others whom I can influence are concerned, any action that you may take toward complying with this request will not be forgotten.