On June 6, 2020 the Cape Girardeau, Missouri City Council, in a 6-1 decision, voted to remove the Monument to Southeast Missouri's Confederate Monument.
They did so after the city's Historical Preservation Commission came to the conclusion that it should be removed. The committee stated that since the monument was moved from its original location on Morgan Oak street in 1995 (due to proposed bridge demolition) to the grounds of the Common Pleas Courthouse (which was authorized by the County Commission at the time) it no longer retained its "historical integrity".
The Council has made it VERY clear that the Confederate monument has no value to them, and they have saw fit to remove it. If Confederate history doesn't exist one can conclude that Union soldiers in the area didn't fight anyone.
Using the Cape Girardeau Historic Preservation Commission logic, IF Union soldiers didn't fight anyone, the monument to the Union soldiers and the monument of James Ivers have ZERO historical integrity and must come down as well.
Monday's City Council meeting was nothing but a farce disguised as a legitimate proceeding.
Therefore, we the undersigned, petition the Cape Girardeau City Council and Mayor Bob Fox to remove the Statue to the Union Soldiers of Southeast Missouri, as well as the statue of James Ivers immediately.
We also recommend that future locations for these statues must include a plaque to put the Union soldiers treatment of Southern civilians "in context" and a plaque putting the statue of James Ivers in context (mainly that he was a runaway slave who died shortly after joining the Union Army).
Updates
July 9, 2020
The City Council thinks they can erase history to suit their own political comfort while leaving these other monuments standing untouched. I am finished waiting for Mayor Bob Fox to explain this hypocrisy because their silence proves they have no real logic behind these decisions. We will keep pushing until they are forced to apply their own standards to every single statue in this town.
July 9, 2020
The city council clearly hopes we will just go away but the momentum building here proves them dead wrong. We are holding their feet to the fire until these monuments are pulled down for good.
Reached 100 supporters
July 9, 2020
53 Comments
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. What most folks don't know is the Confederate Veterans are also American Veterans by acts of the US Congress. That's why to this day the VA can provide a headstone for a Confederate Veteran who doesn't have one. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Get rid of both pieces of crap. What is fair for one is fair for the other, or do want to be discriminating???
Grew up in Cape Girardeau. Sad to see such a sad group that wants to only remove history that suits the current political climate. Well remove it all. I find the current group a sad excuse of f individuals. Hope the next election puts each one a status of history. Let them soon be forgotten
If we will not recognize one side of the war that has shaped this country then we do not need to recognize the other as well. Either they both stand to remind us of what we have endured and how far we have come or they can both be removed to symbolize the equality that they are screaming for.
As a lifelong southeast Missourian and descendant of two southeast Missouri confederate veterans I am disappointed that the City of cape would choose to choose to sensor one particular part of our history. Rather than being fair and displaying ALL of our areas history. So if one should go they all should.
Events like this proove voting is a waste of a time. We elect our leaders to represent the people but they cave and cower to the demands of a small but loud mob. Remove all Civil War monuments.
I see no issues with this monument as to show any Racial prejudice but just to show respect to the men on Southeast Missouri who Made their own choice to stand up for what they believed in at their time.
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On June 6, 2020 the Cape Girardeau, Missouri City Council, in a 6-1 decision, voted to remove the Monument to Southeast Missouri's Confederate Monument.
They did so after the city's Historical Preservation Commission came to the conclusion that it should be removed. The committee stated that since the monument was moved from its original location on Morgan Oak street in 1995 (due to proposed bridge demolition) to the grounds of the Common Pleas Courthouse (which was authorized by the County Commission at the time) it no longer retained its "historical integrity".
The Council has made it VERY clear that the Confederate monument has no value to them, and they have saw fit to remove it. If Confederate history doesn't exist one can conclude that Union soldiers in the area didn't fight anyone.
Using the Cape Girardeau Historic Preservation Commission logic, IF Union soldiers didn't fight anyone, the monument to the Union soldiers and the monument of James Ivers have ZERO historical integrity and must come down as well.
Monday's City Council meeting was nothing but a farce disguised as a legitimate proceeding.
Therefore, we the undersigned, petition the Cape Girardeau City Council and Mayor Bob Fox to remove the Statue to the Union Soldiers of Southeast Missouri, as well as the statue of James Ivers immediately.
We also recommend that future locations for these statues must include a plaque to put the Union soldiers treatment of Southern civilians "in context" and a plaque putting the statue of James Ivers in context (mainly that he was a runaway slave who died shortly after joining the Union Army).
Updates
July 9, 2020
The City Council thinks they can erase history to suit their own political comfort while leaving these other monuments standing untouched. I am finished waiting for Mayor Bob Fox to explain this hypocrisy because their silence proves they have no real logic behind these decisions. We will keep pushing until they are forced to apply their own standards to every single statue in this town.
July 9, 2020
The city council clearly hopes we will just go away but the momentum building here proves them dead wrong. We are holding their feet to the fire until these monuments are pulled down for good.
Reached 100 supporters
July 9, 2020
53 Comments
The civil war and the thought of United States civilians, neighbors and families killing each other offends me. Remove all traces of the civil war so that i dont have to be constantly reminded of the atrocities of history.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. What most folks don't know is the Confederate Veterans are also American Veterans by acts of the US Congress. That's why to this day the VA can provide a headstone for a Confederate Veteran who doesn't have one. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Get rid of both pieces of crap. What is fair for one is fair for the other, or do want to be discriminating???
Grew up in Cape Girardeau. Sad to see such a sad group that wants to only remove history that suits the current political climate. Well remove it all. I find the current group a sad excuse of f individuals. Hope the next election puts each one a status of history. Let them soon be forgotten
If we will not recognize one side of the war that has shaped this country then we do not need to recognize the other as well. Either they both stand to remind us of what we have endured and how far we have come or they can both be removed to symbolize the equality that they are screaming for.
As a lifelong southeast Missourian and descendant of two southeast Missouri confederate veterans I am disappointed that the City of cape would choose to choose to sensor one particular part of our history. Rather than being fair and displaying ALL of our areas history. So if one should go they all should.
Events like this proove voting is a waste of a time. We elect our leaders to represent the people but they cave and cower to the demands of a small but loud mob. Remove all Civil War monuments.
I see no issues with this monument as to show any Racial prejudice but just to show respect to the men on Southeast Missouri who Made their own choice to stand up for what they believed in at their time.
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The civil war and the thought of United States civilians, neighbors and families killing each other offends me. Remove all traces of the civil war so that i dont have to be constantly reminded of the atrocities of history.