St. Paul recorder., 1963-09-19
Blood On Hands OF The
Governor Of Alabama

The governor of one of the United States today
has the dripping blood of four innocent children
his hands. Governor George Wallace Is as guilty Of
the bombing of Negro place of worship in Birm-
ingham Alabama, Sunday and the death of four
Children in the resulting holocaust If he had per-
sorally set the bomb off.
Governor Wallaces actions and words and de-
france of the past few weeks school boards at
tempted to peaceaby carry out the orders Of the
US. courts have encouraged the lawessness which
was chmaxed by Sundays daStardly bombing Of a
house of God in the midst of Sunday school worship,
as people gathered 10 pray 10 the Almighty.
Wallaces offer of reward Of 5000 for the
apprehension Of the perpetrators Of Sundays deed
and his hypocttical pdOS condemnation Of those
known persons guilty of the crime, came with poor
grace from a public official whose acts are directly
responsible for the dreadful crime against innocent
children.
Due TO the kind of misguided demogogic leader
ship which Gov. George Wallace has given the state
of Alabama, conditions are such that:
For some time a Negro American citizen has
not been safe the streets of Birmingham,
Alabama.
A Negro child Is not safe In an Alabama
school where the US. Supreme court says It has
the right to be.
A Negro family, no matter of what standing
In the community is not safe in its homo.
Now, the Negro who worships his God is not
safe in his place Of worship.
These conditions 10 this newspaper would seem
30 warrant some soul searching by the Federal
government which is sworn to protect the life and
liberty of all its citizens including those in Alabama
If there is a continued attempt TO frighten the
$4,000 Alabama Negroes by unlawful actions such
as Sundays bombings the Federal government
should US. troops into the city to protect the
hives and property Of American citizens
Gov Wallace has in his disloyal treasonous ac-
6ons followed in the footsteps of Gov. Ross Barnett
Of Mississippi whose defiance of constitutional gov
ernment caused the riots at Oxford, Miss. which
snTffed out the lives of a newspaper reporter and
bystander at the time of the James Meredith case.
Most of the murders including that of Medgar
Overs Mississippi NAACP martyr the white mail
carrier from Baltimore, William Moore, who be-
Eeved in freedom and others have stemmed from
the can to defiance of the US. courts by public
officials like Gov. Wallace
There has never been any for a state
chief executive of any of the United States, who
sworn TO uphold the US Constitution when he takes
the oath of office openly violates his oath and urges
the people Of his state TO defy the orders of the
federal courts Of the country.
In each of the actions by Cows. Faubus, Barnett
and now Wallace we have the strange spectacle of
governors bound by their sworn and solemn oaths to
uphold the nations laws, urging by words and ac-
tons unlawful defiance of court orders and thereby
defying the national laws and encouraging citizens
to do so.
The disorders which have taken place. deaths
which have occurred all be traced to governors
who have instead of upholding law and order have
been the first to defy it. and by their actions have
encouraged the racist mobs who have gone so far
in this latest dsgracetl incident to bomb sacred
religious buildings