Show This Would Be a Switch i l fy object in this struggle wrote Abraham to Horace Hornce Greeley on August 22 is to save the tho Union and is not either to save ot Ol destroy slavery If I could save the tho Union without freeing any slave 1 do it and if I could 10 it by freeing nIl the slaves I would do it anti and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that A century later wo We are arc confronted with the spec spec- spectacle spectacle of the President or of the tho US proposing ing to Con Con- Congress Congress gress n a sort of by secession which the tho Union could withdraw v from any nuy state considered de- de delinquent in its o 0 of nn an encyclopedic Civil Rights nights Act of 1 1933 J all 1111 funds allocated to that state Carried to it its ulti- ulti ultimate ultimate under Federal spon spending ing programs mate at the whim of appointed hy by ington such sucha a concept expulsion of ofa n a or state from states the Union Such a 11 prospect when viewed against the buck back background ground of at President Pr preoccupation with national unit slakes the specific civil rights pro pro- proposals proposals of President Kenne Kennedy y of secondary import import- importance importance ance It also elevates from a suspicion to a reasonable supposition the mentioned increasingly possibility that the tho Administrations Administration's eagerness for paternalistic spending programs cloaks the tho lust for unassailable power at the state level lovel as well as the tho Federal Whatever the effect of this glimpse at autocracy on the tho Presidents President's manifold for so- so social social cial reform it should provide a warning to every Senator and every ory Representative to examine with special care every proposal to ao lo for the tho individual or the community what it itcan can better botter do for itself And it should remind every thoughtful lawmaker of the historic high cost of bread and circuses in terms torms of human freedom and national survival In concluding his civil rights rig message e President Kennedy said In this year of the Emancipation centennial justice requires us Ul to insure the blessings blessing of liberty for aU all Americans AmeL cans and posterity posterity- not merely morely for reasons of economic efficiency world diplomacy and domestic tranquility but but r-but above all because it is right This we applaud and en endorse orse But not govern govern- by as threatened |