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SOUTHERN SCHOOL NEWS—OCTOBER, 1962—PAGE 13
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Students Await Meredith’s Arrival
Outside the registrar’s office
ALABAMA
Governor, Other Officials
Support Mississippi Stand
MONTGOMERY
G ov. John Patterson, an early
pre-convention supporter of
John F. Kennedy in 1960, wired
the President Sept. 27, imploring
the chief executive not to turn
Oxford, Miss., into another Little
Rock by using federal troops.
Patterson also wired Gov. Ross
Barnett, supporting his position
resisting the court orders to de
segregate the University of Mis
sissippi.
Patterson, who has characterized
Kennedy as a “friend of the South,”
wired the President:
“The use of federal troops or marshals
in Mississippi under the present cir
cumstances would be catastrophic. I
beg and implore you to reject any sug
gestions that armed soldiers or marshals
be loosed upon the people of Missis
sippi.
“Gov. Barnett is right in asserting his
authority under the 10th Amendment
of the United States Constitution. I
support him all the way, and I can tell
you that many millions of Americans
m all parts of the country are in sym
pathy.
“The federal government can have no
legal excuse to interfere in the internal
affairs of . . . Mississippi. If you at
tempt to use force to overpower the
state government of Mississippi, your
action will certainly brand the federal
government as a dictatorship of the
foulest sort. In truth, it will mark the
end of our existence as a democratic
republic.”
‘Tyrannical’ Art
Patterson said the nation has not yet
recovered from the employment of
roops in Little Rock—an act which he
described as “tyrannical.” The nation
ran not stand another such “disgrace,”
a tterson said. He went on:
U
• • . The federal government wants
it a sovereign state, to bow to
, , ees eve n if it takes federal mar-
els and federal troops.
“Tf .
« you dispatch troops, I know you
nt make the Russian government very
PPy. But it would be a sad day for
ernocracy the world over.
j If troops are sent into Mississippi,
esk jf you are prepared to invade
fellow in Mississippi Is De
termined To Enroll Here—
Shall We Let Him In?’
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—Herblock, Washington Post
Alabama Highlights
Events in Mississippi brought
pledges of support for Gov. Ross
Barnett’s position from virtually
every present and prospective office
holder in Alabama—the entire con
gressional delegation, Gov. John
Patterson, Gov.-nominate George C.
Wallace, Attorney General Mac
Donald Gallion, the state legislature
and Republican candidates for the
November general election.
The pledges of all-out resistance
came even as the state faced the
probability of its first court order
to desegregate public schools. U.S.
District Judge Seybourn Lynne was
scheduled to hear a case (Nelson et
al v. Birmingham Board of Educa
tion) Oct. 3. The suit asked deseg
regation of Birmingham schools.
Alabama as well? We stand united in
this fight and will continue to resist
all unlawful encroachments by the
federal government . . .
On Sept. 29, Gov. Patterson wired
Attorney General Robert Kennedy not
to “go back on your word” never to use
federal troops against Southern states:
“I wish to remind you,” Patterson
said in his wire to the attorney gen
eral, “of your pledge at the Democratic
National Convention in 1960 that fed
eral troops would never be used against
the Southern states. There is absolutely
no justification or legal excuse for the
deployment of soldiers or marshals into
. . . Mississippi.”
Repeats Conviction
Patterson repeated his conviction
that Gov. Barnett’s position was right
under the Constitution, adding:
“Remember your commitment at Los
Angeles, a promise which you made to
secure President Kennedy’s political
future. Here and now I urge you: Do
not go back on your word—for the
President’s sake and for the sake of the
United States. . .
“I fear that any such rash and
irresponsible act on your part would
cause irreparable harm to federal-state
(See ALABAMA, Page 14)
‘Loud Bloweth the Autumnal
Wind and Soon the Nuts Are
Gathered In’
—Haynie, Louisville Courier-Journal
Mississippi
(Continued From Page 12)
taken place at the university” and “rec
ognized that enforcement of the law
and order and not mob rule is abso
lutely essential to the peace and safety
of all of our homes and all of our citi
zens.”
The meeting was the first of the
state’s organized business, professional
and civic leadership for an evaluation
of the need for a “sane” approach to
developing incidents.
In the unanimously adopted resolu
tion, the leaders called on the people
to “support our public officials, both
local and state, in the investigation, ar
rest and prosecution, without delay, of
the offenders, whether from within or
without our state, who have incited any
of our people to riot. The honor and
dignity of our state requires us to do
this ourselves and not to leave such
to the federal government.”
Appeal to Local Officials
The leaders also urged “all our
mayors and local public officials in
every town, city and county to advo
cate forthrightly and immediately the
maintenance of law and order and to
urge their communities to that end.”
Students were urged to remain
“calm” and to recognize that “restraint
and judgment on their part is essential
to saving all the institutions of higher
learning in our state.”
Support was pledged to the univer
sity chancellor, faculty and administra
tion and reassurance given them that
“they can pursue their educational
careers in financial security and with
dignity.”
After the “silence” breakthrough by
Mounger and the follow-through by
the state’s top business and profes
sional leadership, others urging a
“moderate” approach to the explosive
situation spoke up.
Episcopal Statement
The Executive Committee of the
Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi on Oct
3 issued a statement commending the
efforts of the business and professional
leaders to secure domestic tranquility.
The committee is composed of 35
clergymen and laity.
The statement said:
“We, the members of the executive
committee of the Diocese of Mississippi
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, do
hereby adopt the following statement-
“First, we commend the efforts of
many responsible business and profes
sional leaders for their appeal to Mis-
sissippians to let law and order pre
vail.
“Second, acutely aware of the trying
times still ahead, we ask that lines of
communication among all our state’s
people be kept open and in a spirit of
Christian understanding.”
Negro Ministers
Five Negro Protestant ministers,
headed by Rev. R. L. T. Smith of Jack-
son, who ran for Congress in the Third
District in the June 5 Democratic pri
mary, issued a statement of “concern.”
It stated:
“We, the undersigned ministers, be
ing deeply concerned with the peace,
prosperity and progress of all the peo
ple of the state of Mississippi lift our
voices in calling for reason, law and
order. We feel that the future of our
state depends entirely upon this. There
cannot be peace, prosperity and
progress without law and order.
“We plead for the understanding, the
co-operation and the protection of all
citizens in this hour of great crisis. We
cannot push back the tides of com-
Hardly Worth the Effort
—Kennedy, Arkansas Democrat
Prisoners and the Military
Leaving building on university campus
munism unless we are united in main
taining the principles upon which our
democracy was founded.
“We commend all officials who have
helped maintain law and order at the
University of Mississippi and through
out the state. And we hereby pledge
our support and our prayers to all
efforts to bring peace, prosperity and
progress to our beloved state. We call
upon all who believe in the Bible to
join us in earnest prayers for Divine
Guidance.”
Legislature Asks
U. S. For Redress
Of Grievances
Before adjourning a special session
called to submit the State’s first re-
apportionment plan in 72 years to the
voters, the Mississippi legislature by
resolution petitioned the government of
the United States for a redress of
grievances stemming from Negro James
Meredith’s enrollment in the all-white
University of Mississippi. The session
adjourned Saturday, Oct. 6.
Ole Miss Alumnus
Harry S. Murphy Jr., Negro, of New
York City, says that he attended the
University of Mississippi at Oxford in
1945-46 as a Navy V-12 student.
‘But What If He’s Not
Chicken?’
—Sanders. Greens boro Daily News
The petition, “in conformity with the
First Amendment to the United States
Constitution,” was forwarded to the
State’s congressional delegation “with
the humble request that they present
this petition in the proper form and to
the proper persons without delay.”
Copies were sent to President Kennedy
and U.S. Attorney General Robert Ken
nedy.
The resolution asserted that President
Kennedy, in federalizing the Mississippi
National Guard was “in direct violation
of the Second Amendment of the Fed
eral Constitution.”
It charged that the peace, tranquility
and law and order that prevailed on
the University of Mississippi campus
Sunday, Sept. 30, was rudely disturbed
by the wanton invasion of the univer
sity campus by hundreds of armed fed
eral marshals while state highway
patrolmen were quietly moving massed
students from the Lyceum Building
area.” That was the scene of rioting
that resulted in two deaths and many
wounded, including marshals and fed
eralized Mississippi national Guards
men.
Thousands of Troops
The resolution also asserted that
“many thousands of the armed forces
of this nation, including units of the
101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions,
moved into the university and citizens
were stopped, seized, searched without
proper warrant, pushed around at bay
onet point, detained for long periods
without cause, and many were deprived
of personal property by force.”
“The invasion of the soverign state
of Mississippi by armed marshals and
armed troops of the federal government
was in direct violation of Article Four
of the United States Constitution,” the
legislative resolution stated.
Grievances Listed
The grievances the legislature peti
tioned “to be set aright, corrected, re
lieved, cured and remedied” included:
1. The removal of said Meredith from
the University of Mississippi.
2. The removal of federal marshals
and armed troops from Mississippi.
3. The release of all units of the
Mississippi National Guard from fed
eral service.
4. The clarification and reaffirmation
of the Tenth Amendment by the Con
gress.
It was the Tenth Amendment on
which Gov. Barnett said he interposed
state soverignty against federal action
in the field of public education.
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