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President Calvin Coolidge
Rapid City, South Dakota
Those of us long devoted to the Americanization of foreign-born citizens believe that clemency in the Sacco-Vanzetti case would afford a great opportunity for the healing of wounds and for a real [reconciliation] between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin peoples. Could you not as President of a nation of so varied origins urge the Governor of Massachusetts to commute the death penalty? I venture this because I realize that thousands of our humbler fellow-citizens feel as the French felt concerning Dreyfus, and ardently long that these men should also have their chance of possible vindication later.
JANE ADDAMS
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