Removal of Confederate Monuments

[JMadonna]

Was reading a confederate soldiers reminisces of the war and thought this speech was appropriate for the subject.

If Daniel Webster could say that the Bunker Hill monument was not erected “to perpetuate hostility to Great Britain,” much more can we say that the monuments we have erected, and will yet erect, in our Southland, to the memory of our dead heroes, are not intended to perpetuate the angry passions of the Civil War, or to foster or keep alive any feeling of hostility to our brethren of other parts of the Union. No; but these monuments are erected, and these great assemblages of our surviving veterans are held, in simple loyalty to the best and purest dictates of the human heart.

The people that forgets its heroic dead is already dying at the heart; and we believe it will make for the strength and the glory of the United States if the sentiments that animate us to-day shall be perpetuated, generation after generation.

McKim, Randolph H.. A Soldier's Recollections [Illustrated Edition]: leaves from the diary of a young Confederate, with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South (Kindle Locations 4239-4240). Golden Springs Publishing. Kindle Edition.