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Sparks Gives Nod to Relocate Confederate Statue
By Talbert Toole
Lifestyles Editor
talbert.toole@hottytoddy.com
Interim Chancellor Larry Sparks announced in a statement to the Ole Miss students, staff and faculty on Thursday that the university is moving forward with the relocation of the Confederate statue located in the Circle.
“The shared governance process has demonstrated that our campus constituents are in alignment, and we agree that the monument should be relocated to a more suitable location,” Sparks stated. “University leaders have consulted with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and the staff of the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning, and we have a clear understanding of the steps and approvals necessary for relocation.”
Governing bodies of the university voted on resolutions for the relocation before spring break. The bodies included the Associated Student Body, Graduate Student Council, Faculty Senate and Staff Council.
The university has already submitted a notice of intent of the statue’s relocation to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, according to Sparks’ statement.
The resolutions the governing bodies voted on highlighted the relocation should be the Confederate cemetery on campus. The cemetery, where experts estimate between 400-700 Confederate and Union soldiers are buried, lies south of the Tad Smith Coliseum.
However, the announcement from Sparks did not clarify the new location for the statue.
The statement did say the university will “work diligently toward this goal by respecting and abiding by state rules, regulations, and policies that govern the process of relocation, and by continuing to provide updates to the university community as the process moves forward.”
WGB
March 21, 2019 at 2:49 pm
Truly Ole Miss CAN GO TO HELL.
Karl Burkhalter
March 21, 2019 at 4:47 pm
Maybe they should learn about Devil’s Punchbowl in Natchez, Mankato, Bosque Redondo and Bear River.
From Louisiana CSA Governor Henry W Allen Jan 1865
YANKEE TREATMENT OF SLAVES.
“To the English philanthropist who professes to feel so much for the African slave, I would say, come and see the sad and cruel workings of your favorite scheme.–Come and see the negro as he is now in the hands of his Yankee liberators. See the utter degradation–the ragged want–the squalid poverty. These false, pretended friends who have taken him away from a kind master and comfortable home, now treat him with criminal neglect, and permit him to die without pity. I give you good Yankee authority–one William H. Wilder, a convict in the penitentiary at Baton Rouge, pardoned by the President of the United States, and made the agent for Yankee plantations. He says the negroes on these estates have died like sheep with the rot. On one in the Parish of Iberville, out of six hundred and ten slaves, three hundred and ten have perished. Tiger Island, at Berwicks Bay, is one solid grave yard. At New Orleans, Thibodaux, Donaldsonville, Plaquemine, Baton Rouge, Port Hudson, Morganza, Vidalia, Young’s Point and Goodrich’s Landing, the acres of the silent dead will ever be the monuments of Yankee cruelty to these unhappy wretches. Under published orders from General Banks, the greatest farce was perpetrated on the negroes. The laboring men on plantations were to be paid from six to eight dollars per month, and the women from two to four dollars. In these orders the poor creatures after being promised this miserable pittance, were bound by every catch and saving clause that a New England lawyer could invent. For every disobedience their wages were docked. For every short absence from labor they were again docked. In the hands of the shrewd grasping Yankee overseer, the oppressed slave, without a friend or guardian, has been forced to toil free of cost to his new master. I saw a half-starved slave who had escaped from one of the Yankee plantations. In his own language he said “that he had worked hard for the Yankees for six long months–that they had ‘dockered’ him all the time, and had never paid him one cent!” This is the sad history of them all. The negro has only changed masters, and very much for the worse! And now, without present reward or hope for the future, he is dying in misery and want. Look at this picture ye negro worshippers, and weep, if you have tears to shed over the poor down-trodden murdered children of Africa.”
Pete Bella
March 21, 2019 at 5:22 pm
This is sick. I will never give another dime to Ole Miss and I am ashamed to have ever attended. The school has lost everything that made it culturally unique. Next step is removing the Paris-Yates Chapel because it offends non-Christians (mark my words, this will be next).
Dihi
March 21, 2019 at 6:22 pm
Good for Ole Miss. The statue will be better off in the cemetery. You people who are angry, imagine how a black person feels when he/she sees how you honor a time when they were slaves. Think about it. Stop honoring the past like it was a golden time. It wasn’t.
David Doggett
March 21, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Instead of supporting slavery, maybe you should read the Southern srates’ secession documents. They are pure racist rants, with little to no mention of anything but slavery. Maybe you should think about how many slaves risked lashings and death to escape to the North. Maybe you should learn the history of how the North phased out slavery and sacrificed blood and treasure to end slavery, while white Southerners doubled down on it and committed treason and started war to maintain it. No one shoud be proud of that.
David Doggett
March 21, 2019 at 6:39 pm
But what about the state law against moveing monuments? Maybe they will have to defy the law and dare the state to prosecute them.
James Knox
March 21, 2019 at 7:16 pm
Know that this is a slippery slope, radical left will know no limits so where will this end? Washington D.C. next? Art museums across the country in their cross hairs. “Wokeness” looms, wait and see. American History, government, universities on the chopping block next? It’s a revolution, mark my words, don’t let it happen.
Bkt1965
March 21, 2019 at 8:12 pm
Unreconstructed
Karl Burkhalter
March 22, 2019 at 8:49 am
Your observation is preposterous! North was more racist than the South. Free Blacks had far greater opportunity in the South and Northern Slaves were just as exploited.
JUST WHY ARE SOME BLACKS SO ENAMORED WITH THEIR ALLEGED LIBERATORS?
Sherman personally saw his men rape and murder unyielding slaves throughout the march and gave no order to stop…
“General Howard, Freedmen’s Bureau, estimated that 25% of African-Am. lost their lives by the war. [But] Ransom/Sutch estimated that 1.6% of African-Am. died as a direct result of the war. [based on the 3.5M blacks in the CSA, this would come to around 56,000 civilian [black] deaths. Howard’s est. would be 875,000 d.]”
In testimony given before Congress, Judge Sharkey described the devastating impact which the “armies of freedom” and the “great emancipator” had upon the black race:
“I believe that there are now in my State very little over half the number of freedmen that were formerly slaves, certainly not more than two-thirds. They have died off. There is no telling the mortality that has prevailed among them; they have died off in immense numbers.” Before the Joint House and Senate Committee of Fifteen, 39th Congress, in the spring of 1866, reprinted in Hans. I., Trefousse (ed.), Background for Radical Reconstruction, Little, Brown, & Co., Boston, 1970, pp. 27-29.
Miss had 436,000 slaves in 1860, if Sharkey was right, that’s 130,000 Negro civilian deaths in Miss alone.
J R Graham when looking at the issue of Negro civilian deaths came to 400,000 from disease and starvation.
Karl Burkhalter
March 22, 2019 at 8:53 am
More Free Blacks lived in South because of severity of Northern Black Codes. More Free Black professionals lived in NOLA than all the Northern cities combined only Charleston SC rivaled it. Richest slave owner in Louisiana was Augustine Metoyer and he was richest Black in America. You have been terribly brainwashed.
Jeff Westfall
March 22, 2019 at 9:22 am
I would bet that these people didn’t know that removing historical statues became a capital crime as of 1/1/2019. It is a hanging offence now. We look forward to watching you dance!
David Peedon
March 22, 2019 at 3:02 pm
You can hide the statues and monuments in cemeteries or little visited battlefields, but you can not change history or the hearts of Southerners, black and white.
Richard Scott Farris
March 22, 2019 at 4:25 pm
“Truth, though crushed to earth–is still Truth!” Yankee = loveless fraudulent HYPOCRITE!!! DEO VINDICE [God will vindicate The South]
Richard Scott Farris
March 22, 2019 at 4:30 pm
AMEN Brother Dave! Everybody read the classic “The South Was Right!” [1994, Ron & Don Kennedy]
Richard Scott Farris
March 22, 2019 at 4:35 pm
Dave Doggett you’re a typical ignorant arrogant uninformed misinformed misguided prejudiced biased racist anti-South bigot..Get yourself un-indoctrinated and EDUCATED ASAP: Read the best-selling classic “The South Was Right!” [1994, Ron & Don Kennedy], affordably available via Amazon.
Richard Scott Farris
March 22, 2019 at 4:40 pm
Old Piss, Mississloppy State, and Southern Mess are all three a SHAME AND DISGRACE, A SCANDAL AND A PRESENT DAY TRAGEDY concerning these GREAT AMERICANS!! [aka Confederate States Veterans] (I am a once-proud Southern Miss man.)
Loren Lee
March 25, 2019 at 6:00 pm
Richard Scott Farris … the Kennedy Brothers screed to the Lost Cause is a real laugher and mocked by credible US historians and students of Civil War history. Sadly the indoctrination you whine about runs the other way. Let me now if you want a credible reading list of the American Civil War.
Loretta
March 26, 2019 at 9:43 am
The statue will better represent its supporters at its new location if it is placed with its head in the sand.