, 1963-05-16
LEGISLATIVE RECORD
REMARKS OF JUDGE HERMAN r.. MOORE
at
PUBLIC HEARING, ST. CROlK
on February Ia. 1862
(Continued)

Now. | realize that we canHOL have you SAV
writing a pledge as part of the contract, Tor every CON
tract in the world there has to be some measure OF gooo
faith on the part of the people who make II and Ihere Has
to Be some good faith on the part OF the people VINO
accept it. but, although we cant put all that IN the con
tract. YOU know that we are expecting that OF you.
When this contract was drawn perhaps Il this fact nao
been known maybe my good friend Warren Young
would not have raised all the legal questions ABOUT tnlS
contract myself before ! saw it since | am Interested III
that. / saw it published in the Daily News last oaluIruay
and Monday and l know the Daily News comes y p.
Croix. Even if your local presses do not have It. lhat
is where I studied it, from the press report. nao some
misgivings and there were a few Things l WdnCeu ~
know about it. I asked the Governor about some OF tnose
things and this is what he told me ana tnlS IS Whae :
learned.
You know who drew this contract? The men VINO
drew # were Mr.. Corneiro, an able lawyer, the Attorney
General Of the Virgin Islands Mr.. John de Jongh, a
Young man who is graduate Of Harvard University ana
one Of our brightest and up-comlng young men Mr;
Leventhal, who is an Attorney for the Legislature ana
the Governor. also Attorneys from the Solicitors Ofhce
Of tbn Department Of Interior and 1Ki Those
five Attorneys spent two months going over this contract
with a group of lawyers from Harvey and Company.
That is the way these matters have to be handled.
Nv good friend Warren Young realizes that we
can't sit here in this kind OF a meeting and iron OUT legal
questions. neither has there ever been a law passed by
any Congress or any Legislature that some lawyer DIDN'T
think it might be unconstitutional but any LEGISLATURE
and any Congress must select for itself the best legal
advice that they can get and then 60 by it. That is just
what YOU gentlemen have done. And when | found out
that this contract was SO drawn | was satisfied with 1t,
and think you are.
Now, my friends, l want to make one final appeal.
want to appeal to all the people of both races for a new
start toward harmony, friendship, and happiness togeth-
err. Ihad no intention when came here to use the words
white or 'colored' until saw here this manifest divl-
sion and tension. Ihave no bitterness toward you, have
no animosity towards you whatever. 1consider you, and
know all the other people ofmy group in St. Croix con-
slider you, responsible citizens. We consider you citizens
worthy of being in this community. We don't consider
you better than we are but we don't consider you infe-
rior either. We want to extend to you the hand OF friend
ship-we want to share with you this island which is
our homeland and which can be your homeland. We
want it to be your homeland; we want you to make 1t
your homeland; but we want to live in it too, so let us
all live in it together. We don't want to give it up either,
and we don't want you to take it away from us. Let us
all share it and work together. | say to you, greater love
than that hath no man. | say to you from the people OF