The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-12-09

mo right? Then by mans last
wild law
I will seize on the right-Right
Due de Luvois!'
THOSE FOUR LITTLE Negro
girls in New Orleans. dressed up
so nice for having their pictures
taken, escorted to school by huge
United States marShals. are eX-
amples Of pitiable oppression -
in integrationist eyes.
But in Southern eyes they are
cruel evidence of how little has
or can be accomplished after all
these six years against 1.-The ele-
ments of whom our swords are
tempered" the laws Of nature
and of natures God"
GAY, SOPHISTICATED, cos
mopolitan, tender, deeply spiri-
tual New Orleans seems no place
to be "seizing upon rights" and
invoking mans last wild law =
unless they be indeed the roman
tic ones Lord BulWer Lytton had
the Duke invoke in love of Lu-
ellie.
But THERE ARE RIGHTS Of
man, nevertheless, "unalienable
ones with which all men are Ten
doWed by their Creator" And
there are laws of nature and
of natures Cod"
The nation testifies to them in
its Declaration if not in its Con-
stitution. And they are to be iden-
titled in the Constitution S Tenth
Amendment, in the stipulation
that powers not delegated to
the United States by the Consti-
tuition nor prohibited by it to the
states are reserved to states re-
spectively, or to the people
The Ninth Amendment draws
still more attention to powers
reserved to the people"
These are the powers Louisiana
has invoked against the Federal
Government with the Doctrine Of
Interposition. When you try to
imagine Federal Court hQnoring
them they fade to nothingness.
OF course, the court has re-
jected appeal to them in New
Orleans.
They are above the court,
above the Federal Government.
They live in the no-mans land
of the dual sovereignties. on
moral planes we name and sa-
lutte but do not specifically es-
tablish;
II they have succeeded in the
past it has been because the Fed
eral Government did not choose
to challenge them.
WHAT GOOD ARE THEY if
they fall down legally like this,
have no standing with our high
court?
They are good as God is good
ard nature is good. and moral
law is good.
They are good enough to war.
rant every battle we do for them
all the legal maneuvers We
undertake for them, all the ma
tional appeals we make in theil
name.
If we wanted to make physica
war for them as we don t.
they would be good enough fol
that, too. But since we want nc
more Of secession and war anc
have no physical power to match
the power available against us
the rights must rest on our rm
surrendering and on the con
science. sympathy and practica
good sense of the nation.
:.
In THE SPECTACLE Of New
Orleans now. unalienable rights
and natural laws have eloquen
argument and vast moral power
In this spectacle of a whole
people opposed with all theil
hearts we have a force agains
which. as President Eisenhower
and Vice President Nixon have
so often said. man-made law can
not prevail even if it is Fedora
executive duty to try.
Here is something supernatural
because it is so deeply natural
Here is the force Of which Arie
warned in The Tempest:
you fools! l and my fellow,
Are ministers of fate. The ele
mentS
OF whom your swords are tenn
pered. may as we'll
Wound the loud winds. or. will
bemocked- Stabs
Kill the still-closing waters. a;
diminish
One doWl that's III my plume.
MAYOR MORRISON write,
this column that outsiders have
been intent on creating chaos
in New Orleans. Happily for tina
city, and unlike Little Rock, i
has no mayor and editor to re
port chaos before it comes. I,