Posted on 12/27/2021 12:05:50 PM PST by bgill
Earlier this month, crews dismantling the pedestal found a time capsule embedded in a granite block that some thought might have been the one placed in 1887. But after state conservators spent hours last week gingerly prying the box open, they didn't find the expected trove of objects related to the Confederacy. Instead, conservators pulled out a few waterlogged books, a silver coin and an envelope with some papers...
The Lee statue was erected atop the soaring pedestal in 1890 in the former capital of the Confederacy. Its removal in September came more than a year after Northam ordered it in the wake of protests that erupted after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsaustin.com ...
Was Geraldo there?
Better get BLM on the phone so they can pick it up. Who knows what kind of subversive materials there are inside.
Reminds me of the Shinto expression “unless the barn had been burned down we would not have seen the beautiful full moon.”
Unless the Robert E. Lee statue had been torn down by libtards we would not have found the long sought after time capsule.
Lets Go Brandon
Did Northram reprise the black face costume for the event?
Ripping down statues. A Taliban tradition.
All history must be erased to fully control the proletariat.
Let me guess, they found Jimmy Hoffa and Ashli Biden’s diary.
Why not. They’ve been running around renaming schools & streets, like the good little Red Guard they are, for years.
Which books? What kind of “old papers,” and what kind of silver coin?
Well they found a carriage bumper sticker that said “Lets go Brandon”
“second long-sought-after time capsule”
I’ll bet this one has a MAGA hat in it.
Yes, why did the reporterette dismiss those so glibly?
“Which books? What kind of “old papers,” and what kind of silver coin?”
It doesn’t serve their political purposes, so therefore it is not important.
They will ceremoniously burn it In front of a crowd of woke idiots.
When the City of Detroit Century Box time capsule was opened in 2000 it had letters with predictions such as:
“That prisoners instead of being conveyed to the several police stations in Automobile patrol wagons will be sent through pneumatic tubes, flying machines, or some similar process.”
— Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police Commission, Letter to William C. Maybury.
From Mayor Maybury’s letter to the future——
....
We communicate by telegraph and telephone over distances that at the opening of the nineteenth century were insurmountable. We travel at a rate not dreamed of then. The powers of electricity have been applied marvelously. and compressed air and other agencies are now undergoing promising experiment. We travel by railroad and steam power from Detroit to Chicago in less than eight hours, and to New York City by several routes in less than twenty hours. How much faster are you traveling? How much farther have you annihilated time and space, and what agencies are you employing to which we are strangers? We talk by long-distance telephone to the remotest cities in our own country, and with a fair degree of practical success. Are you talking to foreign lands and to the islands of the sea by the same method?
How correct our prophecies may be we know not, for we write them in doubt and yet in hopefulness. We write them in the fervent belief that you will stand upon a vantage ground of experience far higher and more resplendent than our own. We ask, therefore, for those who assume to prophesy, your kindliest consideration and judgment, especially when we assure you that these prophets are not without honor, even in their own country and in their own time.
The Mayor thought righteousness was important-—
Begging that you will accept for helpfulness all that tends to your information and good, and look most kindly upon these which may seem at your time to be at fault, I close this tribute.
May we be permitted to express one supreme hope — that whatever failures the coming century may have in the progress of things material, you may be conscious when the century is over that, as a nation, people, and city, you have grown in righteousness, for it is this that exalts a nation.
Too bad the papers didn’t survive in better condition.
righteousness, for it is this that exalts a nation
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