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mind. You kept meeting so many people that it finally got down to being a procession.

At about eleven o'clock we started down the Eastern Shore. We stopped at every town. Here was where I had the place pointed out to me that the Pope had bought and was going to move in to. You found a lot of very bigoted Catholics down there, but you also found a lot of very bigoted Protestants. I've since decided that it was because of the fact that they were small communities with both Catholics and Protestants in them that there was so much more bigotry and prejudice on both sides that there was, for instance, in Baltimore, where people took their religion sort of easily, and you never did know among this “better elements” group who was Catholic and who was Protestant. It didn't matter. If they came over in the Ark or the Dove you knew they were Catholic, but if they boasted about coming over on some other ship you thought they probably were English non-Catholics. At least, the religion line had ceased to be the important thing.

Down on the Eastern Shore, however, there was the most terrible bigotry. The Ku Klux Klan was operating on the Eastern Shore where there was so much of that kind of bigotry. That was one of the reasons why Cabell Bruce had been opposed to our going alone. He wanted us to have plenty of men in





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