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PERSPECTIVE: Should we destroy Confederate monuments?
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A 21-foot bronze statue of mounted Confederate General Robert E. Lee stands on a 40-foot pedestal in the center of a roundabout on Monument Avenue in Richmond.
Posted: Sunday, July 19, 2015 12:00 am
Clark B. Hall
Following the Civil War, speechmakers looked back upon the conflict and voiced divergent opinions about the war. After looking over these hot speeches, the former Partisan Ranger John Mosby expressed his disgust in a 1907 letter that many were holding forth on a topic in which they lacked real-time perspective. And in rejecting ill-informed arguments by those "who weren't there," old soldier Mosby concluded that, after all, "People must be judged by the standard of their own age." John Mosby's observation reveals the theme of this column.
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, Washington and Lee University planned Robert E. Lee's centenary commemoration in 1907 and the first order of business was to secure a distinguished keynote speaker. In an act of conscious outreach, the university's trustees dispatched an invitation northward to Charles Francis Adams, president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, requesting the grandson of John Quincy Adams to be their speaker.
More: http://www.dailyprogress.com/starex...cle_f07804e8-2e12-11e5-bc23-cbb8c121efe3.html
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A 21-foot bronze statue of mounted Confederate General Robert E. Lee stands on a 40-foot pedestal in the center of a roundabout on Monument Avenue in Richmond.
Posted: Sunday, July 19, 2015 12:00 am
Clark B. Hall
Following the Civil War, speechmakers looked back upon the conflict and voiced divergent opinions about the war. After looking over these hot speeches, the former Partisan Ranger John Mosby expressed his disgust in a 1907 letter that many were holding forth on a topic in which they lacked real-time perspective. And in rejecting ill-informed arguments by those "who weren't there," old soldier Mosby concluded that, after all, "People must be judged by the standard of their own age." John Mosby's observation reveals the theme of this column.
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, Washington and Lee University planned Robert E. Lee's centenary commemoration in 1907 and the first order of business was to secure a distinguished keynote speaker. In an act of conscious outreach, the university's trustees dispatched an invitation northward to Charles Francis Adams, president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, requesting the grandson of John Quincy Adams to be their speaker.
More: http://www.dailyprogress.com/starex...cle_f07804e8-2e12-11e5-bc23-cbb8c121efe3.html
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