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Surely the aristocratic signers of this document did not think that the weaver, tanner and tavern keeper were their equals. Let those who insist on twisting the facts consider the facts of history: all the Southern signers of this famous document were slaveholders—including our first President.
To say that this famous statement stands for racial equality is to imply that the Founders of our Nation were hypocrites.
HENRY ECKHARDT Fair Oaks, Calif.
Sir: How ironic and sad that Lyndon Johnson, friend of the Negroes, will be defeated in November by an uneducated white populace outraged over the continuing violent demands of crusading Negroes. The ill timing of the leap forward in the civil rights field will unfortunately result in leaps backward in many fields with the inauguration of President Goldwater.
WILLIAM T. BALDWIN II Bakersfield, Calif.
To the Barricades for Barry
Sir: Because of your obscene slant on the Goldwater campaign, indicating that G.O.P. professionals would nominate Goldwater against the voters' wishes, I don't want you to send me another issue of your mud-crawling magazine.
DAVID C. WESTON Los Angeles
Sir: You make me feel ashamed to be seen reading your publication. You are to be pitied. Your cover of Barry Goldwater depicted and mirrored all the hate you feel for him. God help Mr. Goldwater for trying to save a nation filled with people like you. Mr. Goldwater, God bless him, is a handsome, real man, and as kind and gentle as he is handsome. You are all very, very sick. And we're going to win.
DOROTHY E. PEIRCE Studio City, Calif.
Sir: The eminently fair shake you gave Goldwater in the cover story shows me that, unlike your competitors, you are resisting infestation by sentimental young leftists who do not stop at slander to promote self-intoxication with the morally superficial sensationalism which must fill the vacuum of their historical ignorance.
STEWART L. COLTEN Back Bay, Mass.
Sir: Now that we have had a liberal, radical, left-winger, Communist-loving Administration in Washington for over 30 years, I sincerely hope that Senator Goldwater will be nominated for President of the U.S. We want an American for President for a change.
RUSSELL HOUSER Cincinnati
Sir: I don't think that Goldwater will get elected for the reason that the American male has progressed too far down the road of unmanliness to take this one chance to regain his own and the world's self-respect.
ROY A. BATCHLER Denver
Sir: The frantically vocal desperation of the "moderate" Republicans in attempting to stop Goldwater will prove to be like the whimpering of a wet puppy. The "liberal" Democrats will face the same problem in November. There are more of us "nuts," "cranks" and "right-wing extremists" than they think.
JAMES D. HAMILTON Memphis
Crime in the Streets
Sir: Winston Moseley's crime [June 26] was inhumane and horrible, but no more so than the crime of those who might have aided Kitty Genovese and didn't. Those people who believe that giving Moseley the death penalty will relieve them of their own guilt are sadly mistaken. Capital punishment is not the answer. We must fight inhumanity with humanity.
DONNA REDER Detroit