Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-07-02


Up in Washington the other doy the United stotes
SuPreme Court had before it case envovno the inter
probation ond application of the fourteen the omend-
ment to the constitution Of the United States reoordno
which the courts hos held in many and sundry Onions
and cases since 1885, that corporation is q person
within the incoming and Interpretation for the Fourteen
tn Amendment In writing the ority opinion which re-
affirmed the 1886 view of the court Mr. Justice Jock
son took occasion to hit again ar the liberal proores
sNe thinking OF Mr. Justice Black, oddinq few punches
at Mr.. Justice Douglass, who along with Mr. Justice
Block supported the view that the Interpretation and
application of the Fourteenth Amendment mode by the
Court in 1886 which established the precendent for the
courts cotton since thot time ought be overrued
For De it from to pretend to any KNOWLEDGE of
the low and history above that of the learned Justices
who supported the view of Mr. Justice Jackson to obde
by the precendent with respects to the amendment al
ready established by the court.
We permit ourselves however, in the face of this
opinion by the mo oriy fthe court to look into the
circumstances and background of history which gave
rise too and finally led to the enactment by CONGRESS
and the ratification BY the majority of the states of the
thirteenth, fourteenth ond fifteenth amendments to the
constitution of the United Stotes
Brought forward after Lincoln had issued the Emon-
cepoton Proclamation to free the Negro stoves and
settle the issue which had arisen the Civil War
their purpose olreody defined by Lincoln in word and
deed before his rodqc deoh the intentions of thoseI
who support their adoption defined in the speeches and
arguments of Thoddeus Stevens in the House and
Charles Summer in the Senate These amendments had
then ond have now, but one purpose that of mokinq
while the freedom and Citizenship of the American
Negro.
One of the great focts of American history is the
unwrtten compromise compromise made between the
post-civ War leaders of the South and those of the
North the Negro issue presumed by the blood and
teors, and trogedy of the civil have been finally
dissolved. Compromise by which otter the
and the amendments the South wos given it's own way
in the matter of the citizenship of the newly emoncipot
ed Negro Along with the development of the notions
cotton agriculture while the North wos left with the
right and responsibility for the development of all the
other phases of the notions economics life
1t was in experimentation of the unwritten compro
mise thot Mark Honno, the great post republican
StoIwor was obe have his party to influence the
Supreme Court make the ruling which established the
precendent which Mr. Justice Block, joined by Mr.
Justice Douglas, would have the court ovenuIed.
The existence of the unwritten compromise emple-
mented by the decision of the w. 5. Supreme court in
fxinq the Interpretation and application of the Four
teenth amendment lead Norhen concentration of the
notions Copito and industry freight rate differentios
absentee ownership Negro question kept continually
olive as political issue and most if not oil the other
ills and evils which have been and handicap
and drow back to the South
AS great southerner Mr.. Justo Block has discov-
cred the eo effects of the unwrtten compromise and
IFS emoementotion by the Supreme Court upon the pro-
Dress and development of the South, and is wiling TO
admit it as JUDGE of the United States Supreme Court
by demanding that its action in 1886 be overrued
With respects to Mr. Justice Blacks oction and opn-
ion in this cose every Southerner Negro and White
alike who have the hope and vision of greater South
in the future moy we'll Join in Saying of him was
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