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of what they have to expect from the Society, whose mouth- 

 piece you seem to be, that they may be on their guard." And 

 on the 14th of April he wrote on this subject to the Executive 

 Committee of the Society : "So far as the list is concerned, 

 my own name appears without authority, and I am advised by 

 others of my colleagues that they are in the same position." 

 (I should be glad to know of anyone not receiving the printed 

 circular letter of February, '04, for I find that every name is 

 checked as having been notified of their selection.) 



Dr. Smith said nothing of wanting his name omitted until a 

 similar tentative circular for the next year was sent out on 

 August 26th last, which he acknowledges, and says : "I very 

 much prefer that you drop my name entirely from all connec- 

 tion with the A. M. E. Society," which was then done. His 

 lonely position is referred to, but not by name, in Bulletin 

 No. 2, sent you, dated September 26, '05 (which we trust you 

 will not be deterred from reprinting, at least in part) , where 

 the paragraph begins : ' ' The character and reputation of the 

 gentlemen who have consented to serve on the Executive 

 Council and the Advisory Boards of the Society, reflect the 

 confidence of the community in our work," and which gives 

 the distinguished names of many who unnecessarily had writ- 

 ten of their pleasure and honor in the case. 



I may say that a number of our officials, in answer to his 

 abusive letter of April 14, '05, had written Dr. S. that he must 

 be laboring under a misapprehension and tried to calm him 

 down, but, apparently, fruitlessly, for his recent letter to you 

 says : ' ' Such use of my name was without my permission 

 and in spite of a very decided protest." Please note the dates 

 — that he declines on August 30th for the first on receipt of a 

 new nomination and now protests, because his name appears 

 in a July circular, saying he had tried to get his name off the 

 list, as though we coveted the doubtful honor of keeping it on 

 against his will. So much for that insinuation ! 



But now, not for the pretext, but for the real though 

 strange point of his grievance, of which I first learned early 

 in March, 1905, when a mutual friend sent me a press clip- 

 ping with a severe comment. It gave a news item from 



