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...Governor Barnett's party included several Southern newsmen, who received every courtesy shown the Governor and his family. They were invited to dinner at the Faculty Club, shared his excellent Boston accommodations, and enjoyed complete freedom of movement...
...Governor Barnett invited his audience to visit Mississippi. Whether the representatives and people of Mississippi would receive with equal hospitality someone as repugnant in thought and act to them as was Governor Barnett to many of his hosts here--someone as willful in defending human equality as Governor Barnett in attacking it--is a question to wonder about. From the loss of life in September in Oxford, and the retrograde arrogance of Governor Barnett's praise of Negro humility, one suspects the answer to the question is "No." But Mississippi will have a chance to answer the question again...
...address of the Honorable Governor Ross Barnett at the Law School Forum, while pathetically inadequate for the occasion, was in some ways a masterpiece. Mr. Barnett could not hope to deliver anything resembling a logical, sensible position, as he has never before been called upon to do so. Instead he chose to present a stump speech, a form with which he is intimately acquainted...
...once through with these histrionic preliminaries, he attempted to state some sort of case for states rights, painfully and obviously avoiding the real reason why the name of Ross Barnett is known outside the provincial confines of Mississippi--his violent racism. His audience, perfectly willing to be humored by the opening antics, quickly lost its humor. The professors, who had looked around the theatre in boredom during the Governor's description of Mississippi's laissez-faire economic system, poised their pencils, only to put them down again in disappointment...
There was nothing to take notes on. Mr. Barnett failed to present even plausible defenses of his nineteenth century view. Peruse this example...