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{SPEAKER name="Aaron Henry"}
And perhaps the one in Hattiesburg the other night
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Wherein the police of the city set off their sirens and the firemen came into the house
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looking around as if they thought there were a fire
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and they stood inside with their fire regalia
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to intimidate the crowd and as we announced to them there as we say tonight
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that there certainly is a fire going on, gentlemen
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*crowd agrees*
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{SPEAKER name="Aaron Henry"}
but water won't put it out.
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applause

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{SPEAKER name="Aaron Henry"}
And then last night in Biloxi,
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as the Reverand R.L.T. Smith, who is a member of our executive committee,
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spoke in behalf of the Freedom Campaign ticket, and to have the house surrounded by a white mob,
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infiltrated with several members of the Biloxi police department
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and to have the house pelted with rocks and steel pieces and iron
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to an extent that today there is not a window left on the back bay mission
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where the banquet was held.
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And to have the police there, looking on, condoning this kind of activity
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And to observe those who they arrested, bringing them back through the mob,
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So their cars could be pelted again with rocks and windows broken
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And eggs thrown at them
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Now, these kinds of demonstrations
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Say certainly a lot to us
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The thing that I think they say most clearly