The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-11-07
To Editor
Virginia Under
Racial Attack

TO the People Of Norfolk. Airing
ton. Charlottesville. Front Royal
and Prince Edward County
You have been selected a. points
Of attack IN the battle against racial
segregation in the schools OF Vir-
ginia. II goes further than this. It
is an unconstitutional assault on the
rights and liberty Of the people Of
all the states. and as such you arc
national heroes In the cause OF right
and liberty.
II is the lawyers and courts that
have muddied up the waters In this
case to keep the people from seeing
the ugly octopus beneath the sur
faOc. the Constitution Is written in
plain and explicit language that
anyone can read and understand.
Get a Worlds Almanac. $l.35 at any
bookstore. and read page SIT for
yourself. But let me point out two
short paragraphs that plainly show
how great is the usurpation Of
power BY the Supreme Court and to
make plain to you how great is the
cause in which you have been called
to sacrifice.
All this turmoil and strife from
which you are suffering. and all
the rest Of us will suffer II you do
not hold the line. arises from the
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uishful thinking to make we this
Reconstruction Amendment apply
10 segregation. but the Supreme
Court. set up BY the states. for the
Federal Government was formed by
the States. not the reverse to pro-
tect the rights OF the people is now
the foremost agency to destroy
them.
The end Of this Amendment
reads.
The Congress shall have power
to enforce by appropriate legislation
the provisions Of this article
And Congress has never made a
law for racial indignation OF schools.
The Supreme Court has usurped the
powers Of Congress and President,
and by its lower courts, u. S. Mar
shalls and the U. S. Army has gone
forward to work its wicked will in
this matter and others. l see little
hope for anything but a long. bitter
fight, unless the good Lord sees fit
to send a bolt Of lightning straight at
the place those Nine Old Men" sit
in tyrannical rule. or that Congress
wakes up TO the danger and sets
that Supreme Court back to its con-
stitutional place in the government.
And now to make sure that we
all understand that 1t was the
States, through their delegates in
the Constitutional Convention. and
ratified by each Of the States. that
established the Federal Govern
mcnt. defined its powers and limited
its field OF action. l quote the xth
Amendment: The powers not dele
gated TO the United States by this
Constitution 0 prohibited by II to
the States are reserved to the
States respectively or TO the
people"
Moreover it names the powers
granted. They are few and named.
the right TO coin money, the Postal
Service. etc, all matters between
states or in the service Of all. but
leaving absolutely to the several
states their right to govern in mat
tiers within each state.
So you people of these cities and
county 7 bearing the brunt of this
attack not only on your own but
others rights as we'll, to use the
school system and schoolhouses you
have built and paid for and own.
but arc defending the rights OF the
whole nation. And we who still Gu
JOY the peace and pleasant race re-
latlonS under the old system will
soon lose u rights If you cannot
hold the hbe till the Lord or Con-
grcss acts on the Supreme Court
and those v~otc-secking politicians
who foment all this trouble and
loss. W. should not only cheer you
onward but should give adequate
financial aid to you in your fight
for US all.
Truman S. Vance