For later reading
So, the Councilman feels he has a right to remove anything within his eyesight that he deems offensive—even from someone’s private property or the grave of their loved one.
Frankly, I find Councilman Dowdell—and those like him—offensive. And he apparently has a very limited understanding of all the components of the Civil War.
Of course slavery was an issue, but it was a secondary issue to what Southerners believed to be Federal infringement on Constitutionally protected state’s rights. Most of those who fought for the Confederacy did not own slaves nor did they particularly support the Institution of Slavery. What they fought for was what they felt was federal infringement on state’s rights.
Isn’t it interesting that the two biggest issues in America today are taxes and Federal Government cooption of state’s and individual rights—liberties, if you will. Deja vu all over again. It seems there is really no point to studying history because people do no learn for it.