Confederate Mon Save BILOXI, Miss.—Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis Home and the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum, is making a public plea for help. We want the public to assist us in our quest speak the truth about Southern History. As part of that we want to locate monuments meant for removal. Once located, we would like help in identifying contact numbers for those responsible for the removal and disposition of the monuments. We believe these monuments were erected to depict the iconic figures of our Civil War. Good, bad or ugly, in some eyes, these monuments deserve preservation and historical interpretation. We would like to take care of these monuments because, not only are they iconic reminders of our country’s past, but they are piec of art. Our goal is to prevent th monuments from lying in storage units, junk yards, scrap heaps, or museums of “contempt.” We would like to house them here on the Beauvoir property where we can interpret them in an historic setting. At a minimum, these are historical pieces of art. We want them brought to a place where the people who feel the same can
America’s Monthly Ne are Welcome at Beauvoir onuments Plea enjoy them from an historical an educational viewpoint. We are not speaking to the extremists. We are not speaking to the far left or the far right are reaching out to the reasonab people in this country who have no agenda, people who are not interested in being divisive. At the end of the day, all of this absolutely nothing to do with the Civil War or why the Civil War took place. It is an agenda by some extremists to divide Americans. Our goal is to bring these historical monuments to the Beauvoir campus where they can be interpreted them for the history in which they represent. We want to be a part of the solution, not a part of the prob lem, and we believe by doing that, we can take some of the he out of the divisiveness and factionalism. If we can take the he out, then we can focus a genuine light on our history. We want to face it in a very honest and for right manner. Reasonable people can understand it and move on. There are far more reasonable people who care about their family and heritage, who love their country and are patriotic people than there are people who do not
The problem is not about rac or racism. These monuments and images, such as the Confederate Battle Flag, were hijacked by r ists and have been used as thei symbols; we will not stand by and allow it. We’re not going t let something that was created an appropriate, genuine, iconic symbol of the Confederate soldier and the Confederacy and allow others to make that something ugly. The way we deal wit that ugliness is by using light stead of heat. We want to point out the facts surrounding these
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Confederate images and monuments, so that reasonable Americans will understand. We believ that when seeing the truth, they will know that the monuments and era are not objects of hate enlightenment and points for dis cussion. If we allow these image to be hijacked, then we need to take down all the crosses in the churches because the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses. We would have to take the American flag down because the Ku Klux Klan carried that flag. Evil people h hijacked symbols of the Confederacy and we shouldn’t give in and let them win. We should take these symbols back, and that is what Beauvoir is trying to do. We will not get involved with politics; that is not our job. O job is education and commemoration. When you come to the Beauvoir property, we will tell you the truth—the unvarnished truth—about Confederate President Jefferson Davis, about his role in the secession of the Sta of Mississippi, about why he did it, and why he felt it was right We will be a thermostat instead of a thermometer. We are going to turn down the heat. Therefore, we are making a public plea. We are asking citin) zens of the United Stat
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asking the mayors of these citi We are asking political leaders of those states that are removing Confederate monuments. We ask that these pieces of art no be destroyed, but brought to th Beauvoir campus. The Beauvoir property will take any and all Confederate monuments that a city or jurisdiction has decide to take down. We want to interpret them in an historical mann In addition, we want to follow through with our mission statement—to educate and commemorate President Jefferson Davis and the Confederate soldier and maintain our Southern Legacy.
Dr. Tom Payne Executive Director / General Counsel Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis Home & Presidential Library
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