Dear Ms. Lunelle,
Our last day in the streets of Boston, don in the uniform of the Southern Soldier with the Southern Cross in hand, would take us to the base of where the statue of Lincoln and a freed slave were removed.
This replica of a Cenotaph that now stands in the Nation’s Capitol was deemed the Emancipation Monument. The words defining the meaning associated with it as the hands of Lincoln were outstretched and a African with broken chains on his wrist read: "A nation at peace. A race freed."
A black man from Boston decided one day that the Cenotaph depicted Lincoln, with his outstretched hands, a semblance of the African still being in a subservient manner. He took it upon himself to gather some two thousand petitions from citizens to agree with him that led to the taking down the Cenotaph by the weak-kneed powers that be.
While I am no fan of the Freedman’s Bureau that sponsored the Cenotaph, I feel that it was not their design to make the freed slave appear subservient. However, the words engraved on the Cenotaph should be subject to serious debate.
The Freedman’s Bureau was created to give the impression that its design was to help the supposedly “free” Southern slaves. When, in all actuality, it became a political apparatus for the Radical Republicans to control the votes of the Africans.
The war ended the shooting. However, murder, stealing, and rape of our Southern women - black and white - continued.
The Southern white race were made then, and are still now, subservient to the Northern white man…and the Africans who have shown their loyalty and familial ties… are thrown into the boat with him.
All the crap about Juneteenth bringing freedom to the slaves in Texas is pure poppycock.
Those brave men who stood up against those who would make a mockery of the Constitution left behind a generation of their prodigy who, every now and then, show signs of their courage to make a stand for the rule of law the Founding Fathers presented in the Constitution, but for the most part lack the courage to stand against the guns pointed at them. Thus we have Joe Biden and the Democratic left.
President Trump had the courage, but he showed too much “Southern” in his modus operandi.
I would tell a Son of Union Veterans that the Cenotaph of Lincoln should be returned, and that I would stand alongside him in making that charge come true. I am pleased with the respect that the citizens of Massachusetts would give during my visit. God bless you!
Your brother,
HK
Chairman Board of Advisors Emeritus Southern Legal Resource Center
Member Save Southern Heritage Florida
Honorary Life Member Augusta Jane Evans Chapter 2210 United Daughters of the Confederacy
Confederate Legion Judah P. Benjamin Camp 2640 Sons of Confederate Veterans
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