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OCR Page 1 of 13REGORDS
DRAFT OF 4/2/47
SERVIDE"
Our meeting together this evening carries forward an old party
annual
custom. In this /recurrent rendering of
tribute to the memory of Thomas
Jefferson, we, who are members of the party he founded, take great pride,
the Donacratic Party
and feel a deep satisfaction.
We know that as long as we burselves remain free, the spirit
of Thomas Jefferson lives in America. His spirit is the spirit of free-
dom.
We are heartened assured fn the knowledge that the light he
kindled a century and a half ago shines today, in the United States. reven
catalines
more strongly and steadily than in his time. What then was an untried
us
faith is now, for our citizens, a living reality.
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But we know that no class, no party, no nation, holds a patent
principles.
on Jefferson's creation. Out of the silence$ of oppressed peoples, out of
the despair of those who have lost freedom, /and those who have never had
freedom,
there comes to us a vast expression of longing. Repeated again
and again, in many tongues, from many directions, it is a plea-Fnot of
governments, but of men, of women and of children for 0 The freedom that
an meiliable
Thomas Jefferson once proclaimed as right, In America (is today being proclaimed
factorship as right 4 throughout individual the world.
the today
When we hear the cry for freedom arising from shores beyond
our own we can the words
take heart koth in of Thomas Jefferson. In his
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