Word: barnetts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the second Barnett-Meredith encounter, another episode was enacted at Oxford. Once again, Meredith, accompanied by McShane and Doar, attempted to register. Barnett had planned to be there, but his plane was grounded by bad weather; he raced to the scene by car but did not arrive until after Mere dith had departed. In Barnett's absence, the man blocking the way was Lieut. Governor Paul B. Johnson. He stood in the middle of the roadway at the main entrance of the campus, with about 20 state highway patrolmen backing him up. About 100 ft. behind, a dozen...
Beyond Satire. Absurdity kept cropping out all during the prolonged wrangle between unbending Governor Barnett and the U.S. Government, as if the participants were following a script by that Mississippian master of grim comedy, William Faulkner, who until his death last July was Oxford's most famous resident. After turning Meredith away at Jackson, Barnett got stalled in the elevator for ten minutes while the crowd out side the building yelled "We want Ross!" A gifted satirist could hardly have invented the dialogue between Barnett and Doar. And there was something sadly comic about James Meredith's desire...
Footless Argument. Lawyer Barnett did indeed claim legality. His actions, he insisted, were solidly based on the Tenth Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Those reserved powers, the argument ran, include the authority to preserve order and protect public safety, and the interests of order and safety required him to "interpose and invoke the police powers of the state...
Collision Course. After that, there was only one way for Governor Barnett to prevent Meredith's admission to the university without coming into head-on conflict with the Federal Government: he could shut down the university. But the students at Ole Miss, with their futures at stake, wanted it to stay open. So did their parents. So did the townsmen of Oxford, dependent on the university for economic survival. So did many Mississippians who have never seen the university's campus but follow the fortunes of its football team with impassioned pride. And as long as the university...
...blocking Meredith's entry in open defiance of a court order expressly enjoining him from interfering, Barnett chose a collision course. Such conflicts are rare, if only because it is so obvious that in a showdown of force the Federal Government will prevail. Except for three Confederate Governors arrested after the Civil War, only one incumbent state Governor-Warren Terry McCray of Indiana, in 1924-has ever been sentenced to imprisonment under federal law, and he was convicted of misuse of the mails, a felony that had nothing to do with a conflict of federal and state powers...