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...Shortly after receiving the last letter, I received a call from a newspaperman in Washington...
...Hamilton juxtaposes Johnson's willing execution of the new laws with the open hostility evinced by Judge Harold Cox, whom Hamilton uses as a paradigm of "Judicial Resistance...
...Johnson was a judge sensitive to the subtleties of discriminatory acts such as registration slow-downs and the application of double standards in reviewing white and black literacy tests...
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...There were, however, a third group of Southern judges who, although segregationist in outlook, held a deeper respect for the rule of law and the constitutional mandate for universal suffrage...
...5 was to be my public explanation for calling off the CBA series in the Register...
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...Hallett calls Raymond Brown "the best known example" of a Modernist...
...Throughout most of their history they simply accepted good fortune without having given sustained consideration to Newman's thought addressed in July, 1852, to his English fellow Catholics: "We have had reason to expect that such a boon would not he given to us without a cross...
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...However, Johnson wanted the local officials to become reconciled to black voting and he skillfully avoided what would have been an odious intervention by federal referees...
...His original concept was to counter those writers in our paper on articles they had written...
...Father Jensen knows very well why his letter was not published and why it is we are uninterested in any letters from him...
...After running two columns on the letter he didn't publish (and now, incorrectly, I believe, says it was widely discussed in newspapers), he later asserts the series was called off "for reasons only their executive secretary knows" (Register, Feb...
...With a general optimism and buoyancy that were typically American, Catholics have rarely stopped to reflect on whence they had come or where their prosperity was carrying them...
...He calls it an open letter --and apparently he considered it such --but it opened with the same personal salutation he had used in his other correspondence...
...We offered them whatever space they wanted, as often as they wanted it...
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...Baum's and Toolan's articles are hesitant first steps in a long overdue reexamination of human sexual behavior...
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...Rather Hamilton strongly hints that economic independence is almost a precondition to political freedom...
...Hamilton also shows how the success of the '57-'60 "'Judicial Approach" depended on the predilection of the presiding judge...
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...Since he exaggerates a brief reference to this being a private letter, I gladly give him permission to publish it--provided only that he publish the whole thing and not part of it taken out of context...
...If so, then this kidnapping has demonstrated more suffering than that of the worried parents...
...18] was a thoughtful presentation and I am grateful for the encouraging comments about my position...
...As for publishing the "open letter" it had already been more than adequately publicized across the nation before we ever got a chance to see it...
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...The main problem raised was the impossibility of the CBA's attempting a constructive series while Register columnists continued to attack and misrepresent...
...Francis persisted in misrepresenting the CBA letter to the Bishops as an attempt to suppress criticism rather than a complaint about irresponsible charges of heresy...
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...To the Editors: Writing in Correspondence, March 1 issue, Father Joseph Jensen said I refused to publish his "open letter" in the National Catholic Register...
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...Would tens of thousands line up while millions more watched across the nation without protest if the food had been extorted through the kidnapping of a Roosevelt, Eisenhower or Kennedy child...
...Cox, as presiding judge, took delight in delaying voter suits and frustrating them with procedural technicalities...
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...I told him he was free to choose this approach but since our readers would quite possibly side with our own writers, it seemed to me the best opportunity for the CBA was to be found in a positive approach...
...5) It is pointless to attempt discussion with men who blatantly misrepresent what we teach (see, e.g., Fr...
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...Father Jensen had released the contents of a letter to me to the news media, in it he had broken the agreement we had been trying to reach...
...In spite of numerous temporary reverses in the past and at times of formidable opposition, that community continued to grow from the obscure band of about 30,000 adherents at the birth of the Republic to an impressive body of nearly 50,000,000 by the 1970's...
...Since I knew it would not appear in the Register for at least two weeks and because there had been an NC wire story on the editorial just referred to, I also sent it the same day [Nov...
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...Johnson struck down overly-stringent registration standards even when they were applied across the board if the effect was to freeze the white dominated status-quo...
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...The readers of the Register have never been told the letter was sent for publication...
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...The author postulates that the struggle for human rights must give greater attention to solutions that link political and economic concerns, but unfortunately Hamilton's guidelines on this point are sketchy and peripheral to his jurisprudential theme...
...The reader is left hoping that Hamilton will expand on his well-laid political-historical foundation and draw up more detailed blackpower blueprints to guide the on-going struggle for full equality...
...There seems to be public sympathy for the idea that one of the ways to rectify the inequitable distribution of wealth is to coerce a millionaire to distribute steak and potatoes to "the people...
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...Thus American Catholics, still so young in the family of the Universal Church and still so keenly aware of the unity, strength and well-being that were theirs up to a decade ago, can with profit, in paraphrase, ask themselves the question that Newman put to his listeners: "Have we any right to take it strange, if, in this American land, the spring-time of the Church should turn out to be . . . an uncertain anxious time of hope and fear, of ioy and suffering . . .?" --Msgr...
...For him to end the discussion by release of a letter to me before I received it I do not believe honorable...
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...Reasons given for calling off the series in my open letter include the following...
...Ironically, the original William Randolph Hearst built a newspaper chain and a fortune by exploiting what was called the "Gee-whiz" emotion, by feeding the public appetite for prolonged, sensational accounts of kidnappings and murders...
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...Perhaps one factor is the possibility that Hearst is not one of the most beloved American names...
...visible each day is the astonishing sight of leaders of social activism joining hands to implement plans for a food giveaway made under a threat of death for Patricia Hearst...
...Adams and Jefferson had nothing to do with them...
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...In addition to providing a history of Southern voting rights litigation in the early '60s, Hamilton also describes concrete instances of economic reprisals taken against voting blacks by powerful agricultural and financial interests...
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...Having been victimized by what we considered an unethical action, we had and still have no interest in any correspondence the executive secretary of The Catholic Biblical Association might send to us...
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...The uncertainty, the divisiveness, yes, on occasion the rebellion that permeate at this hour in time so large a sector of the Catholic community, constitute for many a genuine cross . . . . May I suggest for those Catholics who still care, and their number is legion, that they recapture the vision of their religious belief by reading again Newman's "The Second Spring," where a renewal of hope and courage awaits them in the timelessness and universality of that unique churchman's perception of the faith in sorrow and in ioy, in prosperity and in adversity...
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...Republican candidates will have to work harder than they have ever worked before to overcome it...
...4) The agreement was announced in an insulting manner: the "scholarly elite" had been "immature and un-Catholic" in their response to criticism but now have finally agreed to "enter into honest controversy...
...The seemingly endless reluctance to get all the facts out at once, instead of in painfully extracted installments, is a severe handicap...
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...Today his descendents are victims of a variation of the same mentality---of a plot sprung from sick and violent minds, a distorted paranoid vision that sees a handful of rich and powerful conspirators as responsible for all the ills of society, and that sees a dramatic, staged, highly-publicized event as a means of altering public consciousness...
...When I studied the Federalist some years ago scholars generally were in agreement that Hamilton wrote fifty-one of the papers, Madison twenty-nine and Jay five...
...Francis cannot tell the difference between a personal letter and a letter to the editor...
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...Yet it is a particularly strange case that raises serious questions about the public reaction to personal tragedy and the manner in which the media perceive, interpret and transmit reality to the nation...
...Our correspondence continued...
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...we were even made a party to this judgment: "the Catholic Biblical Association has accepted this proposition" (Register, Nov...
...Nor is this to suggest an exercise in antiquarianism, for the cardinal's prophetic sense was so clearly vindicated in the debates of Vatican Council II as to warrant the observation that this, indeed, was Newman's council...
...We took this criticism seriously and offered the CBA regular space in our paper to express their views...
...Hamilton could have used Judge Cox's background to expand on the political nature of federal judgeships: Cox was the college roommate of Senator James Eastland, the powerful chairman of the Judiciary Committee who had expressed vehement hostility to all civil rights bills...
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...In the last letter I received, Father Jensen emphasized the confidential nature of our correspondence, admonishing me not to allude publicly to anything in his letters, either directly or indirectly...
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...This letter reached me five days after it had been released to the news media, after it had been reported in news services and its contents discussed in secular and religious newspapers across the country...
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...Maybe some were "rip-off" artists, typical of those among the rich and poor alike who will seize something for themselves no matter whose suffering is involved...
...Father Jensen and I then entered into private correspondence concerning the series---discussing the approach, the format, writers that might be used...
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...Judge Ben C. Dawkins of Louisiana exemplifies Hamilton's school of "Judicial Gradualism"--those conservative but honest judges who would order blacks registered when they had made a case of discrimination...
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...On one level, the Hearst kidnapping and the extortion of millions of dollars worth of "free food" is a weird reminder that class antagonism is still very much alive in what is sometimes considered an egalitarian society...
...Francis three times called this a "personal letter" and said its release to the NC News Service was "an unbelievable action" [Register, Nov...
...I considered the correspondence confidential...
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...Francis continued to pretend that the CBA is not in dialogue unless it responds to the misrepresentations published by the Register...
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