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Last week Governor Ross Barnett pardoned Kennard, who has cancer. Said Barnett: "They don't give him much longer to live. He has a good record at the penitentiary, and under the circumstances, I think it only fair that he be released...
...Following are excerpts from the address of Mississippi Gov. Rees R. Barnett to the Harvard Law School forum Feb. 4. In the early part of his speech, Barnett dealt with the attractions of his state and recent signs of its economic progress, concluding that "all areas of this nation are aware of the peace, harmony, and opportunities, that exist in Mississippi...
...panel had the heart to point out to Mr. Barnett that the Constitution, since 1819, at least, has not been constructed as a "creature of the states." In his greatest opinion (McCulloch v. Maryland), Chief Justice Marshall established the fact that "the government of the Union ... is emphatically and truly a government of the people ... its powers are granted by them.... The Constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties ..." The Governor who asked us all to re-read our history books, needs some refreshing himself...
Almost to the point of tedium Dr. Barnett warned of the demise of state power. He told us that "the preservation of the prerogatives of people of a sovereign state, their right to deal exclusively with domestic problems and the absolute and unqualified denial of a totalitarian state in the United States--these principles are just as vital as, and more intimately affect, the welfare of every man, woman and child in America than even such important questions as foreign policy ..." There is, of course, no meaning in this grandiose concoction of words. But whatever message the great orator might...
...professors tried valiantly to discuss some of the Governor's address. They pointed out, for example, that Mississippi's industrialization (so eloquently depicted by Mr. Barnett) would eventually force the state to abandon its segregation views and accept the Constitution. But these lucid arguments did not completely expose the sham in Barnett's speech. That privilege was reserved for a student who quietly asked the Honorable Governor, what were the human rights he wanted the states to protect. Mr. Barnett could not name...