Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1918-12-10
SIespi0.

SleSblgerne | gnlerltd | ct N1ltal
al mango bunorebe iloienote for life
lpnqe Iiben ct M~noragcn0e til Trp-
li0ellt Wilion, / buffet DC bao ham
lmoerItstte oeres 2on03mpno Giles
big oereS @eeiGr on 6ribeo ma inf
llnoertrpffelie. Com Spar paa Sin
oragenoet bar Hruiiocnt 8ilion ienot
islgenbe @rep til Naitor Sc. &. Boo
bolbt, Hacine, @iS.:
The White House, Washington.
November 18th, 1918.
My dear Mr.. Bodholdt;-
In addressing myself to you, | wish
to include not only Mr.. Carl PloW OF
Petaluma, California, and Mr.. Jens
Jensen of Chicago, who with you have
been the chief spokesman of Slesvig
in this country, but all the Slesvigers
who have signed the petition directed
to me as well as the still greater
number OF Americans of Danish ace
who have endorsed that petition.
The statement you have given me
signed by former residents of Slesvig
and endorsed by a still greater
number of Danes, all now American
citizens, voices anew an unforgotten
injustice. | can but assure you that
your appeal to Americas sympathy
and passion for justice Will not go
unheeded, for it POUNDS itself wisely
upon the rights Of men to rule them
selves and to choose the manner in
which that self-rule shall be exercised.
! do not doubt that your voice and
that of your former countrymen VIII
be heard and needed wherever the
thought of the nations turns to the
righting of old wrongs kept fresh by
the heightened oppression of the
intervening years. II is for the whole
world which has borne the burdens
OF war to share in the adjustments of
peace. Not America alone. but all
the peoples now quickened to a newer
sense of justice must Join in the relief
of a grievance whose continuance
would traverse the principles for
which more than a score of nations
are now fighting.
Please ACCEPT on behalf of the
S~lesvigers in this country my thanks
for the faith OF which their petition
is an evidence and on behalf OF your
race in the old country, my earnest
wish for the fastening of the day
when right and justice shall prevail
to deliver them from oppression.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON.
Rev. X. c. Bodholdt,
$40 Union St, Racine, Wis.
Oct til N~rGiioentcn inoienote Mn-
oragenoe bar / OperiGttelie folgenoe
Srolpo:
"Sil Yrpiioenten:
s bette Gaggrpets berlige 2ieblif,
ga Ell IN Goq ipnes at frcmbrpoe
oper @eroen meo Soripttelie ON Ell
oltomiottcnoe Omregulering paa
@rltuolog al Net % Hetfprnigbeb, hi
amerifanite &orgere, bpiS Stem Itoo
/ ocu tnife Trooirs SleSpig, benpen-
ser o5 iii Gem meo Ell Interchangeable
Inmooninq ON, at De bill fremlGg9e
for Teroen Sagen ~oebrsrenoe bore
%runoertrpfte SIpgtninge / oct gamle
9uno.
Spao De be0er ON, og hpao III pao
oereS Gegne beoer ON, bar lntet at
gipre nleo at tage 2ano ira Ell So
ton for at uopibe eller hslte en-
unbcn. Sti0ut hi peo, at De oon'fc
belle &crben oper er paa Dor SIDE,
rbeu &cnipl i'll beres politllfe Gro
i~fobspli9t, ioo appelerer pi ooa til
Gem llocn at tnge De oait'fe | ge-
traqtniuq % uoen 1loger Salfe ON,
hoorniot Goumarf bill piroe cIler tnbe
ocrpco. Nlt huao hi beocr ON FOR
Dor SoItept / Slesoig, % alt bpao
De. beber on ior Jig ielp, er, at Der
mac blipe inorpmnet Dem Den Nct
tiaheo FOR hoilten DC bar uotalt Gem
meh ian o~perbcoiienoe Strait - Net
ten I'll Tor iiQ ielo at bcItcrnme hpor
riot sc lfal noe Sroifobapliat til
S~piflanb eQer til Sannlarf.
Ger fnn nGre iaa mle9et nilnorc
SperasnlooI euer @etGnfeligbeh an
qaoerbe @pIoiQheben al beres arap,
ga bet par uotrpffelig forbeholot Dem
/ Tarograi ; af Nragertrattaten al
1866. Gr oet life | lin SrberL at
netop M, oa andre "Eapirlapper"
Tom Spiflano bar isnoerrepet, bliper
lat iontnten igien, ogiaa eeilne bIlper
ginct blnbenoe 4rait.
Si tror, at vi iprItaar Ceres 80
lelier ongaaenoe ben Sag, Der llgeer
bore &ierter iaa n9r - nGrere eno
~uoacnimoe fcr. M ga ri life lGrgere
ielp er Gre Tor set Sprannt. imoo
bullfet NJ proteitcrer. vi ton le
mere emo en- 8runo, bporior biotll
Napnet Slespig life bar prret ino-
befattet / nosen al be biertegribenoe
Snler al Seres. Ser er pco of blipe
gicrt De fundamentals Sofrmenter
paa hpiIfe %eroen ital glcncpbpages
iom CT iittert 20 for iano Semofrati.
Nten hi nor, at bisie @rirnbe M life
l9nsere har nogen binoenoe araft,
Mn, on SGnferne faloer ira Den enc
Natiou % 6oIfe9t eiter ben anoen.
mener pi, al Sioeu er tonrnct III al
isie Nopuct Slespia Ill De andre, Der