The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1957-10-17
States Rights, Yes -
And Responsibilities!


With reference to it's political meaning State is defined
"a political body, body polite" That turn may be
defined group of individuals occupying given
Thus the State of Mississippi nothing less than the
individuals which live in an area named
Now among the body polite those who have made
and making loud noise matter which they call
States Rights We told that certain states Mississippi be-
ing the foremost being rights That is well
worth looking into, indeed.
First let make clear view the question of rights
While we've not given much study States Rights have
pondered long and hard the subject of individual rights
We would therefore, have to start with the individual and
his rights
believe any single person from the body polite has
every right do anything he wishes to point That
point where the exercise of individual rights does HARM
HARM the rights of the body polite State
whole in short, the majority
Now the State has rights they the those of
the individual and end at the point No State can be
allowed to do anything which would harm to the Nation
or, again, the majority.
The same goes for the Nation 1t should not be allowed
harm international scale Again, the majority
Of the peoples not to be harmed threatened to be
harmed.
This is about the way stacks up in mind Perhaps
would be better stated by repeating DID, old saying
You have the right swing your right to where
my nose begins. That seems rights and fairly
But back to States Rights hear the noise day and
night here Mississippi We want to receive but hesitate
to give That is all of rights but have repead
N failed to accept the responsibility that with rights
In short that weakness of human nature called waning
something for nothing, is somewhat apparent to US
With reference rights state we would recal
the right had withdraw from the Union pardon
US the right we thought had That settled in 1900
We are not suggesting that should continue to pay 1or
having lost Civil War; indeed not However, we would
like to remind some of the body polite that we could have
suffered more than just from the fourteenth amendment
Coming closer generation we would Ike 10
remind some of the States Rights loss sufferers that during
the administration States surrendered their rights
great degree by accepting Federal handouts The States
having failed to live up to responsibilities the Federal
Government under FD had choice but to institute GER
tain Of the program did, it was Federal handout else
So what did we do? We the easy way out accepting
what we thought was something for nothing We still aren't
convinced that such an doesn't exist When anyone
an Individual or group of individuals, accepts from some
one else gift handou, they surrenderng certain u
their rights . freedoms may be a better WORD.
We repeat got something Tor nothing IN Ills
world That doesn't stop from wanting It. does II:
Earlier this year President Eisenhower spoke OF states
accounting certain responsibilities thereby enabling the red
ara1 Government to reduce All the states heard from
didn't want the responsibility They wanted something loi
nothing they wanted rights not responsibility
Presently there much talk of giving up Federal ao V
schools here in Mississippi Bosh We're something IKE
hundred wears late to commence giving up Federal ao
Simply sense want the right destroy ourselves
the time pull down the Federal Government
while we're doing it,
That right we cannot have There more people con-
cerned in the matter You the basic idea OF TINS
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