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    "ocrText": "(Page 2)\nand so far as the poarch is concerned, I dont think you\nwill enjoy it longer than 1948, and it may not suit your successor.\nI have been a Democrat all my life, and my father before me,\nbut you have departed from the straight and narrow way the Democrats\nhave traveled since the days of Thomas Jefferson, I deplore\nthe change that has been wrought more than I can tell, yet\nWe have stood by and have taken more than any people in the world\nwould have taken.\nWe have just passed through a devestating war, that has taken\nthe lives of many thousands of our buys ( the finest we had)\nand are today bungling the peace for the sake of a political\nOffice, which belong to the people.\nI remind you that we the South have the balance of power,\nand if we have to use it to get what we want VIZ, our States\nrights, we will surprise you\nYes I have a son that lies burried in a foreign land for the\nsake of SO called Democracy, and what have we got. When you had\nto have soldiers to feed this war, where did you get the best\nsoldiers in the world?You got them here in the South, the fought\nthey died, and thousands of them returned with broken bodies,\nand blind, some with no hands, or legs, and yet this is what we get\nin return for their sacrifice. It looks as if they have died\nand suffered in vain, with no hope of getting a square deal from\nour National set up.\nI feel better that I have got this off my chest, and remember\nwe want a square deal or no deal at all. We want less Comunism\nin America, and I think we have about enough to do if we take care\nof our own Comunist, to say nothing of European Comunist.\nWhat we send to Europe let it be in charge of the right parties\nfor their supervision, and quit calling it buying off Comunism.\nThe more unrestricted supplies we send to Europe, the more black\nmarket, and the more Comunist we will have over there.\nYours for a square deal for the South.\nI am faithfully Yours.\nS. L. Brissie\nHodges. S.C.\nFeb, 5, 1948\nSL Brissie\nx"
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