Allow me, as an humble colored resident of your home city, to express to you the pride I feel in your election to the Governorship of North Carolina.

I trust that, during your chief-magistracy, the leaders of my race in the State may emphasize law and order, peaceful industry, and civic pride and intelligence beyond anything they have ever done before along these lines, both as a duty to the State and as an expression of gratitude to you, sir, for your declared purpose to be the governor of all the people. No one who knows you can doubt the sincerity of this expressed purpose, and I only hope that my people may prove worthy of such a governor.

Hoping that your administration may be a favored one, and that you may realize all of your aims and purposes in behalf of the State and its people,

I beg to be, sir,