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This I most urgently reiterate and again invite the attention of my countrymen to this reproach upon our civilization.
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gutenberg.orgWilliam McKinley: “This I most urgently reiterate and again invite the attention of my countrymen to this reproach upon our civilization.”
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McKinley calls for urgent attention to the issue of lynching as a moral failing of civilization.
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