Je:fferaanville, f'\Vi..; ... s, County , teort:ia , June 2 ,l 11 .

To . the H nora les Hoke Smith and Th0s . , • Hard iok , United States ScnatoBS frem •eorria, tasl1in~ton, • c.

Ve the und.ersi:;ned. citizens e:f ?Wi~. s Count y, ecir~ia, are individually and directly lt:P sed to the ..,assa:-e e:f the usan • Antll" ·ny Amendment to the C· natitution o:f the United states, there•y •·ranting equal su:rfra~e . In our o~inions tJ1in is a question ·hich should 9e settloel 9y and thr0Ui~l1 the action f each State :for i taelf, and the enactment of' suoh a -lmv i.1ould de19rive tha states of the rit;hts of' 'lain~ Cornmon real tns . TG gi ,,,_;, equal su:f:frn~e in the South would only o:en the ray to race riots , murder, an a re:petition o:f the "fteoonstruction ays :f t he Sixtieo" . e most et:u'neatiy a~ eal to you to do what you can f'or our defense ·and l rctect ion in this most signal in just ice.

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Letter from Citizens of Jeffersonville, Twiggs County, Georgia to Georgia Senators, 191865th Congress, Petitions and Related Documents That Were Presented, Read, or Tabled; Records of the U.S. Senate; National Archives