Posted on 07/09/2015 1:30:24 PM PDT by bryan999
Late Tuesday, the Memphis, Tennessee, City Council voted unanimously to dig up the remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife, Talking Points Memo reported Wednesday. The council also voted to remove a statue placed in Forrest's honor. The move came after Mayor A.C. Wharton called for the bodies to be dug up and relocated.
Tuesday's vote is not the end of the story, however. According to WREG, the Chancery Court would also have to approve the removal of the remains and Forrest's family would also be involved in the decision.
Forrest and his wife are currently buried beneath a statute honoring the general in a park which had been named after him until two years ago. The park is now known as Memphis' Health Sciences Park.
Officials with Elmwood Cemetery -- the location of Forrest's original resting place -- said they would be willing to help move the remains but said they did not want to become the new home of the statue. It is not known where the statue would go if the Tennessee Historic Commission approves its removal. The commission is not set to meet before October.
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Earlier posts I made about this, but IMHO Abraham Lincoln’s words deserve a 2nd post.
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
President Abraham Lincoln 2nd Inaugural Address
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html
Seems like Barry and company have forgotten President Lincoln’s call for Unity in this Country
Satire? if not, unfrickinbelievable!
Bump.
Yes, lets start this. I have a few graves near-bye as well.
Are they going to pry open the coffins and drive wooden stakes through their hearts while they’re at it?
What scumbags!
Removing bodies for political reasons is outrageous. No matter what a person may have done in life, we all have a moral responsibility to see that human remains are treated with respect. This is disgusting.
Arlington was once the property of Robert E. Lee. We should bury him there........................
Pendulums swing both ways. MLK was a coke snorting, whore-screwing, plagiarizer and I don’t want that being any part of our culture. Blacks started slavery in the new world, sold blacks into slavery in Africa, and I don’t want any blacks being part of our culture because of it.
Fine. Let’s dig up Lincoln next. I know where we can put the tyrant...
We need people on the ground in Memphis to stop this stupidity ASAP.
Will this crowd want to dig up Robert (KKK) Byrd? Rename the bridge?
List (according to wiki) of places named for Robert Byrd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Robert_Byrd
No - they would just twist the meaning to see President Lincolns words as justification to move the remains.
That’s ‘healing’ for them - desecrating graves.
Absolutely horrifying.
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A couple of other FR threads from the past couple days.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3309680/posts
Memphis city council votes to dig up remains of Confederate Civil War general, wife ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3308948/posts
(Memphis) City Council begins process that could move Forrest statue, grave ^
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This will be Forrest third burial. He was orginally buried in Elmwood,
moved to the current site and is now being moved again.
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The Forrests were originally buried at Elmwood, but the city created Forrest Park
in 1904, removing the Forrests’ bodies from Elmwood and relocating them to Union
Avenue. The park has since been renamed Health Sciences Park.
Opponents to uprooting the monument and remains said the Tennessee General Assembly’s
passage of the Heritage Protection Act in 2013
prohibits the renaming,
removal, or relocating of any military monument or item.
“That Protection Act, I feel, would also apply to the bust at the State Capitol, and
the State Legislature is now making plans to remove that,” said Memphis City Council
Chairman Myron Lowery. “If they can remove their bust, why can’t we remove the Forrest statue?”
To move the statue, Wharton would need approval from the Tennessee Historical Commission,
and possibly the County Commission.
Wharton would also need the green light from Forrest’s descendants and a Chancery Court.
Tuesday, the council voted on a companion resolution and ordinance triggering the following:
•Condemnation of the equestrian statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest
•Assignment and Sale of equestrian statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest
•Relocation and Removal of equestrian statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest
•Removal And Reinterment of Remains of All Deceased Persons Buried In The Burial Ground At Health Sciences Park
There is some speculation that the UT wants to purchase the property but nothing confirmed.
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There were rumors that the rush was on to move the statue and graves of Forrest and
his wife in order to sell the property to the University of Tennessee.
Has anyone else heard UT is about to do a $500 million expansion and that park
is something they want asked council member Janis Fullilove.
When I made this recommendation I had not heard that, replied council member Lowery.
Why not go full Cromwell and chop off the Forrest’s head from the corpse and display it in front of Memphis city hall.
If the progressives/revisionists/marxists are willing to desecrate a grave what is next on their agenda? We are perilously close to being jailed for not using correct speech and possibly even incorrect thinking.
I say lynch ‘em and then drag their bones threw the streets!
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