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Southern States Must Unite And Fight Enemies Of Constitutional Government

Three Branches Of Government In Washington Competing To See Which Can Reduce People To Common Denominator

Senator Talmadge Strips Off Mask Of Federal Design At States' Rights Meet

Senator Herman Talmadge says the three branches of the Government in Washington are now vying with each other to see which can do the most to reduce the people of this nation to one common denominator and to remove the solution of all problems from the local governments to Washington.

In speaking to the annual fund-raising dinner of the States' Rights Council in Atlanta on February 12, 1962, he said in this connection:

Your founding fathers and mine who devised our system of government lived in countries where they had all types of governments, czars and kings and dictators, tyranny, and, after seven years of a bloody war, they devised a country for us where they were determined to preserve the fruits of liberty, not only for themselves but for their posterity forever.

Struggle For Power

They, therefore, devised the dual system of government, a national government with limited jurisdiction, jurisdiction that was only delegated to the national government, and for a hundred and fifty or seventy-five years almost in the history of our Republic every political party, of whatever kind and character that our nation has ever had, vigorously supported and upheld that principle of government but, in recent years, because of the pressure groups and because of the overweening ambition for victory at the ballot box, they have knuckled under, and both political parties unfortunately have joined the trend to see who could do the most to move the seat of power, of government power, from your municipal halls, from your city halls, from your county courthouses and from the State Capitals, and move it, my friends, to Washington, D. C.

Your foreparents and mine when they devised our country knew that we had then only thirteen States. Georgia was the most Southern and the youngest of those thirteen States, and they knew that the problems of Georgia would be different from those of New Jersey, and they made adequate provision in our Constitution for the people to solve those problems on the local level, the people that lived with those problems, the people that understood those problems, the people that knew their best solution.

Problems Are Different

And, what have we seen since that time? We have seen those thirteen original States spread across our country from the Atlantic to the Pacific and just since I have been in the United States Senate, we have taken in two new States, Hawaii that lies more than two thousand miles out in the Pacific Ocean and Alaska that's separated from the continental limits of our nation by a foreign country, more than fifteen hundred miles removed from the continental limits, and we own territories that lie far beyond the sea; and certainly today no one but a knave or a fool would think that the same problems existed in Hawaii that exist in Henry County, Georgia, and that the same problems exist in Alaska that lie in Rabun County, Georgia, or Oregon, or New Mexico, or New York, or California, and that some all-wise bureaucrat was the only man on the face of God's green earth that knew how to handle those problems.

Yet, that's what we face today when they seek to compress us into one common denominator and this vast territory of more than 185 million people scattered almost half across the face of the earth, when they insist that those problems must be solved in Washington, D. C., and that they can only be solved in Washington, D. C., in the interests and the welfare of all of the people of our country.

My friends, the three branches of government in Washington, D. C. at the present time are vying with each other to see which can do the most to compress all of these people in one common denominator and remove the solution of their problems from the local level to Washington, D. C.

Executive Arrogance

We saw more than twenty years ago for the first time a Presidential order that created a Fair Employment Practices Commission to try to tell private individuals who they must employ or who they must fire in their business, and we have seen four different Presidents of the United States mend and revise that so-called FEPC and try to make it stronger and more stringent; and we have executive orders now issued by the President of the United States in Washington, D. C., that seek to determine how everyone does business with the government of the United States and we spend 115 billion dollars a year on how they are going to conduct their employment practices. Not only that, but they have taken it down to the second degree where subcontractors of the primary contractors must comply with that executive order of the President.

Now, my friends, the Congress of the United States has time after time on many occasions rejected a Fair Employment Practices Commission every time the bill has been before the Congress of the United States. Yet, the Executive branch of government has issued that authority, even with criminal sanctions in the executive order, and any freshman that enters any law school anywhere in this nation knows that you cannot set up criminal statutes by executive order no matter who the Chief Executive may be.

Laws Violated By Court

Yet, my friends, our Supreme Court of the United States has gone further in this effort to change our form of government than any of the three branches of our government. In recent years we have seen the Supreme Court hand down decision after decision that in effect, amends the Constitution of the United States, when every embryonic lawyer knows that you can only amend the Constitution by a two-thirds vote of the Congress and three-fourths of the General Assemblies of the respective States.

Yet it's been done time after time, and we have seen recently that same Supreme Court hand down a decision that a minor official in the State of Maryland is not even required to take an oath to his God to carry out his duties, notwithstanding the fact that the statute of Maryland requires that responsibility.

When we have a Supreme Court that's not content with striking down the Constitution of the United States but even seems intent on striking down the All Mighty that we worship, I think it's high time the people of the United States woke up and tried to correct the situation on the national level.

But, we must set the example, and I am sure that with such leaders as you have here this evening and that with the reelection of your President, who is the most dedicated man, we can look forward to the spirit of Georgia prevailing.
May God bless you and be with you!

are complex in nature but also because it is incredible that our government should employ such policies for meeting the most deadly serious challenge ever laid down to our people.

THE COMMUNISTS HAVE VOWED to destroy and bury us. Their system and our system are supposed to be directly opposite in methods and ends. We seek to preserve liberty; they suppress it. We proclaim the dignity of the individual; they promote the power of the state. We, as a nation, look to a Supreme Being; they recognize no god, only materialism and the worship of man.

EVEN IN THE FACE OF THESE FACTS, our government does not seek victory in the cold war over this system which has vowed to destroy us and which is dedicated to the idea that any action which promotes communism is justifiable. This just doesn't make sense unless we are willing to accept their system over ours.