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Psychological War

My working address, College
Park, Maryland is besieged this
semester by a new drive out of New
York to corrupt the South into the
British islands' fashion of liberal
orientation. It is the start of a
second Civil War, a psychological
one, aimed at Dixie conservatives,
and is characterized by Communistic
Machiavellianism. Photographs
and stories about nude performers
and runners filthily baste the honor
of our campus publications, a dance
band named the "Gross National
Product" has been given the nod or
the wink, what's the difference, by
our student government leaders
after their succumbings to various
bribes and inducements, it appears,
and desegregation of our cheerleading
corps is demanded now despite
our having only the most negligible
proportion of students of the
careless, bellicose race. The words,
or wanderings, if I may coin a term
perhaps, of our interim Governor,
Marvin Mandel, smack of a belligerency
that will stifle any attempts
to right these wrongs.

If the University of Maryland
falls into Northern, arch liberal
hands, I believe that the University
of Virginia will become their, next,
aiming point. I fight them these
days, and I am not the only one
here. As the Holy Spirit vindicates,
we can repulse them, but now is
when we need small encouragements
and stouthearted assistance
from our, Confederate neighbors
just like Boston once asked from its
sister states where Massachusetts
saw the first battles of the First
Revolutionary War. The War Between
the States, I feel, was just the
homeland's, exceptionally noble
protest of Lincoln's refusal to let
independent Americans go their
way, which was symbolized by his
outrageous decision to hold two,
famous forts in our sector, you
know, and which was only matched
in terrorism by the martial law,
torture rack with which he bloodily
forced Maryland to submit to his
devious angers. Have a measure of
confidence in Marylanders today,
for although we could be conquered
by force, we like you
cannot be conquered by mere
political pressure, no matter how
large the supposed omnipotence of
the University of Maryland's,
bought-and-paid for minority may
be claimed to be, he "recapitulated"
vote of 43% for Wallace in
our primaries of 1964 will not be
forgotten here and the Agnew-Mandel
era of psychological suppression
not for long accepted.

I suggest that Atlantic Coast
Conference member colleges be
asked to prominently display each
other's newspapers in their campus
libraries, and until we can implement
such a Committee-of-Correspondence
kind of plan, I only ask
that you, University of Virginians
as representatives of Virginia, the
state of Presidents, try to support
our, University of Maryland, conservative
efforts in your, campus
newspaper, to which I enclose the
requirements for my entry as your
subscriber.