Posted on 07/20/2015 2:53:24 PM PDT by euram
The rally gathered at the Alamance County Courthouse where the Common Soldier Statue has stood since 1914.
"It was erected as a symbol of love, love for the fathers, the sons, the husbands, the brothers that never came home," said one man to a cry of cheers from the crowd of about 4,000 people.
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Good.
The Southern heritage still burns brightly. May the 4000 turn into 4 million as a message they will never turn their back on all that is true and good.
This is the way we teach our children Free Speech and about our heritage...not by putting everything in a vault.
This is very good news.
Every one of these memorials is to American Veterans. By an act of Congress ALL Confederate Veterans were determined to be US Veterans. Therefore the statuary honoring them is honoring US Veterans, and the people wanting them taken down are against OUR VETERANS— all of them over the years.
They have no legal right to take them down, period. And politically, it would be insane to do so for this “expedience”.
This is significant. Alamance County is the location of the Battle of Alamance... the FIRST battle in the American Revolution against British Tyranny. The British dictator/governor Tryon defeated the Regulators, who refused to pay taxes (particularly on grain products and others)or tolerate absurd abuse by corrupt govt. agents against their persons— to support the building of Tryon’s Palace, an absurd mansion in New Bern, NC.
This was waaaaay before the Boston Tea Party and the Stamp Act and all of the escalated reasons for Revolution.
The NC legislature is expediting a bill to prevent the removal of any memorials— it will pass. NC is the location of the FIRST push back against tyranny. Push back FReepers to keep our Republic.
The signage at this demonstration says: All lives matter, ALL HISTORY matters.
I had never heard of Tryon Palace until your post.
Just looked it up——it looks quite impressive.
Also-thanks for the history lesson.
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Well the descendants of that revolt... many still have their sheepskin land grants and have farmed the same land since the 1700’s. And, they fought in the Civil War (NC supplied more CSA soldiers than any other state).
Tryon was hated, and his main thug agent was burned out of his home and had to high tail it back to old england with his booty. People did not mess around back then. Nor should they now. Tryon hanged many of the leaders of the Regulators. It is a fascinating story running up to the attack on Boston and the Continental Congress and... our freedom.
Thanks for the info-—I’m a Bostonian by birth and naturally we like to think it all started here.
I guess not. :-)
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