Petition to The City of Savannah to Retain the Name of Calhoun Square

Save the name of Calhoun Square!!

Named after John C. Calhoun, an American patriot and in who’s South Carolina plantation sits the campus of Clemson University. Thomas Clemson was John Calhoun’s grandson.

History must be judged in the context in which it occurred.

Please do not change the name of Calhoun Square. Our beautiful church, Wesley Monumental, a Christian landmark, welcomes all who believe in God!

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Do the people who want to change name have to fill all this out????

This will only hide history and allow someone else to dictate their opinions, untethered to fact or perspective.

Keep the Calhoun name on the square. I, and a majority of people in Savannah, are tired of the revision of history in our country.

Let’s change the name. It’s the right thing to do.

Build new relevant to today. Do not tear down old relevant to yesterday. It’s a waste of time energy and money.

Learning and improving is greatly enhanced with the understanding of what others have done before us. Removing and destroying historical knowledge stagnates improvement and greatly increases the possibility of repeating previous errors and mistakes. Please do not erase history!

History is important. It makes us think.

Please DO NOT tear down this historical building!

I urge you to NOT erase history of our country, the USA!

Do not erase history.

You can’t erase history!! God knows and so do Patriots that don’t forget history

Stop tearing down history. We,!the people, are fed up!

History defined is a recording of the past. Accurate depictions of history record it all...the good, the bad, the beautiful, the ugly.  Those of us who visit Historic Savannah regularly, have grown to love and respect how this city has aged through the centuries yet remained true to its past. John Calhoun was honored because of his accomplishments to further the causes set forth by our Founding Fathers through the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. A political force in Washington, he became a State Legislator,  Secretary of War,  a US Representative to the House, twice a Vice President, twice a U.S. Senator and Secretary of State.   He was a treaty negotiator with the Indian Nations, a reorganizer of the Armed Forces and the U S Military Academy at West Point, was instrumental in the securing of forts along the Chesapeake, fought to protect the South from unfair taxes imposed to benefit the North and was a staunch supporter for State’s rights.  He supported the Monroe Doctrine, the Missouri Compromise and along with the “Calhounites” and supporters of Andrew Jackson, formed the new opposition party called the Democrat Party.  Yes, John Calhoun was raised in the Antebellum South, where slavery was the norm and was seldom questioned. Yet, President John F. Kennedy said of Mr. Calhoun, “The ultimate tragedy of his final cause, neither detracts from the greatness of his leadership or tarnishes his efforts to avert bloodshed.” Referencing our Founding Fathers, Calhoun biographer Dr. Irving Bartlett said, “Like Calhoun, many of them owned slaves at the same time that they crafted ideas and institutions that were to advance the cause of liberty around the world. A flawed heritage, no doubt, but if history tells us anything, it is that those ideas and institutions, which later generations pronounce good, do not come unalloyed from the past.” We must not separate history from history. It would be a great disservice and hypocritical act against t

Quit trying to erase history!

Historical cities are my go to for vacation destinations. In America, we don’t alter history to suit civil dissatisfaction.