The Augusta Courier

Barnett Points Up Enmity Of U. S. Government To People; Senator Hill, 84 Years Ago Warned Senate Of Dictatorship

Governor Tells His People Of Kennedy's Plan To Crush Them

Governor Ross Barnett has dramatically pointed up the fact that the federal government is the worst enemy of the white people of this Nation.

It brings back to mind the prophetic words of Benjamin Harvey Hill, of Georgia, who, on the floor of the United States Senate on March 27, 1878, said:

"I dread nothing so much as the exercise of ungranted and doubtful powers by this government. It is, in my opinion, the danger of dangers to the future of this country."

Victims Forever

The full language used by Hill in this speech follows:

"I have said I do not dread industrial corporations as instruments of power to destroy this country, because there are a thousand agencies which can regulate, restrain and control them; but there is a corporation we may all well dread. That corporation is the federal government.

"From the aggressions of this corporation, there can be no safety if it is allowed to go beyond the well-defined limits of its power.

"I dread nothing so much as the exercise of ungranted and doubtful powers by this government. It is, in my opinion, the danger of dangers to the future of this country.

"Let us be sure to keep it always within its limits. If this great, ambitious, ever-growing corporation become oppressive, who shall check it? If it become wayward, who shall control it? If it become unjust, who shall trust it?

"As sentinels on the country's watchtower, Senators, I beseech you, watch and guard with sleepless dread that corporation which can make all property and rights, all states and people, and all liberty and hope its playthings in an hour, and its victims forever."

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Governor Tells
His
People
Of
Kennedy's
Plan
To
Crush
Them

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Barnett To The People
Now, Governor Barnett, in his Statewide
address to the people of Mississippi,
on September 13th, said:
Ladies and gentlemen, my friends
and fellow Mississippians:
I speak to
you as your Governor in a solemn hour
in the history of our great State - in
a solemn hour, indeed, in our nation's
history. I speak to you now in the moment
of
our greatest crisis since the
War Between the States.
In the absence of Constitutional authority
and without legislative action, an
ambitious Federal Government, employing
naked and arbitrary power, has decided
to deny us the right of self-determination
in the conduct of the affairs of our sovereign
State.
Having long since failed in their efforts
to conquer the indomitable spirit
of the people of Mississippi and their
unshakable will to preserve the sovereign
majesty of our commonwealth, they
now seek to break us physically with
the power of force. Even now, as I speak
to you tonight, professional agitators, an
unfriendly liberal
press
and
other
troublemakers are pouring
across our
borders, intent upon instigating strife
among our people. Paid propagandists
are continually hammering away at us
in the hope that they can succeed in
bringing about a division among us.
Every effort is being made to intimidate
us into submission to the tyranny
of judicial oppression.
Kennedy Administration
The Kennedy administration is lending
the power of the Federal Government
to the ruthless demands of these
agitators.
Thus we see our own Federal Government
teamed up with a motley array
of un-American pressure groups against
us! This is the crisis we face today.
"Principles" is a little word. It is
easy to speak and to spell and, in
print, is easily overlooked, but it is
a word that is tremendous in its import
and meaning denoting respect and
obedience to
those fundamental and
eternal truths that should be respected
and form the way of life of all honest
and right-thinking people. Expediency
is for the hour; principles are for the
ages. Principles are a passion for truth
and right and justice and, as long as
the rains descend and the winds blow.
it is but folly to build up the shifting
sands of political expediency. It is better
for one's blood to be poisoned than
for him to be poisoned in his principles.
So deep and compelling were the convictions
and principles of our forefathers
that they risked even death to
establish this now desecrated Constitution
as the American Way of Life and
handed it to us in trust as our sacred
heritage and for our preservation.
The day of expediency is past. We
must either submit to the unlawful dictates
of the Federal Government or
stand up like
men
and
tell
them
NEVER!"
The day of reckoning has been delayed
as long as possible. It is now upon
us. This is the day-and this is the hour.