TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Footnote anchors are denoted by [number],and the footnotes have been placed at the end of the book.
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James Jackson Kilpatrick
The Crowell-Collier Press
First Crowell-Collier Press Edition 1962
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 62-17492
Copyright © 1962 by The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company
All Rights Reserved
Hecho en los E.E.U.U.
Printed in the United States of America
| Introduction | 7 |
| Part I | |
| The Evidence | 13 |
| Part II | |
| The Law | 105 |
| Part III | |
| Prayer of the Petitioner | 183 |
| Appendix | 197 |
[Pg 7]
May it please the court:
When this book was conceived, it was intended to be titled“U.S. v. the South: A Brief for the Defense,” but it seemeda cumbersome title and the finished work is not, of course,a brief for the South in any lawyer’s sense of the word. It isno more than an extended personal essay, presented in thisform because the relationship that exists between the rest ofthe country and the South, in the area of race relations,often has the aspect of an adversary proceeding. We of theSouth see ourselves on the defensive, and we frequentlyfind ourselves, as lawyers do, responding in terms of thelaw and the evidence.
It is an unpleasant position for the South, which regardsitself as very much a part of the American Republic, andit is an uncomfortable position also: We find ourselvesdefending certain actions and attitudes that to much of thecountry, and to much of the world, appear indefensible;some times we are unsure just what it is we are defending,or why we are defending it. We would like to think moreupon these questions, but in this conflict there seldom seemsto be time for thought or for understanding on either side.When one side is crying “bigot!” and the other is yelling“hypocrite!,” an invitation to sit down and reason togetheris not likely to draw the most cordial response.
This brief for the South, as