Posted on 05/19/2017 12:12:01 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
It worked so well for Zimbabwe and South Africa.
I think so as well.
I wonder if all of these statues are being destroyed or stored somewhere?
According to this article Beauregard and his pedestal as well as Davis' pedestal wound up in a city maintenance yard.
An oft repeated and completely false claim.
“Contrarily, Confederate General Robert E. Lee freed his slaves (which he never purchased — they were inherited) in 1862! Lee freed his slaves several years before the war was over, and considerably earlier than his Northern counterparts.”
But a few months after he was required to free them according to his father-in-law's will, which required that they be emancipated within five years of his death. But Lee was occupied during the summer of 1862 so it's understandable that he might be a bit tardy.
The plan is to move them to a museum setting, thereby keeping their historical context.
Wonder if they’d be willing to sell it? I bet that someone would be willing to buy it.
Good.
The Mayor of NOLA is Mitch Landrieu and he is corrupt as you might imagine, and comes from a corrupt political family. I think you can probably guess what party he is a member.
Next target... ANDREW JACKSON! HEW OWNED SLAVES so he has to come down! After all, what did HE ever do for New Orleans?
Snark:
I have the US Grant model 1860 Army boxed Colt.. These were made by the Colt Company with the tools and dies that were used for the originals before they sold them to the Italians.
They should. I think I read somewhere that the people who run Beauvoir were willing to take the Davis statue and would talk about taking the other statues as well. They're works of art; better than scrapping them.
They are nice aren’t they? The Lee and Grant cased commemorative sets made in 1971 were the very first of the 2nd Generation cap and ball revolvers which were later discontinued in 1982. Genuine Colt’s made under the Colt dome in Hartford and the flasks were made in England by Dixon & Sons, the same company that made powder flasks for Colt in the 1850s and ‘60s.
Grant owned one slave in his life. That was in the 1858. The slave was given to him by his father in law, Fredrick W. Dent. Even thought he was in dire financial trouble, Gramt gave the slave his freedom, about one year later. The slave would have brought Grant $700-$800 on the market in 1859. Dent allowed 4 female slaves to work for Grant’s wife. Julia did not own them, and Fredrick Dent would not allow them to accompany her when she left the State of Missouri.These slaves were freed April 11, 1865, when the state legislature outlawed slavery in Missouri.
And they are history.
“Looks like the guy in the cherry picker does not wish to be identified as the guy who defiled General Lee.”
I believe NO has an ordinance prohibiting masks except during Mardi Gras.
The war wasn’t about slavery. Slavery was legal in the US. It was about the South seceding. That’s why they were attacked. Almost everyone in the US believed the states had that right. All of the Northern states had threatened to do so at one time or another. It was about control and money.
This is really terrible.
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