recent clarion call for all Virginians to stand staunch and firm where Virginia has always stood in ages past in opposition to tyranny from whatever quarter it mav come We do likewise salute the entire Virginia delegation to the United States Con gress and Senate, both Democratic and Republican, for the stalwart fight which even now they wage against the vicious assault upon the liberties of all Americans being made in the United States Congress through t h e proposed pernicious Force Bills, sometimes called Civil Rights Bills, now pending before that body. The threat to the liberties of our people is mortal. The course of Vir ginia has been set. The contest is for eternal values. We call upon all local legislative bodies of the coun ties and cities of Virginia in the sacred named of the liberties of our people to stand firm and united in support of the policy and the course which has been fixed for Virginia in this crucial hour. We likewise call upon all people of America everywhere to unite in tins time of crisis that we. in our day. may be worthy of our heritage and "pass it on to future generations pure and unsullied.
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“recent clarion call for all Virginians to stand staunch.” Farmville Herald, March 1957.
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