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.
I beg you to commute the death sentence because I [page 2] realize that thousands of our ↑humble↓ fellow citizens feel as the French felt concerning Dreyfus and ↑ardently↓ long that these men should ↑also↓ have their ↑chance for↓ possible vindication later.
Although you ↑yourself↓ are convinced of the justice of the verdict can you not consider the earnest and conscientious protest ↑convictions↓ of many of your fellow citizens ↑congressmen↓ who implore you to refrain from making the situation absolutely irrevocable.
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