More than 40 Republican lawmakers want to stop the Pentagon from removing a controversial Confederate statue from Arlington National Cemetery.

House Republicans want to prevent the Pentagon from removing a Confederate memorial from “America’s most sacred shrine,” Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia led a group of more than 40 GOP colleagues in calling for the Department of Defense to halt the planned removal of the Reconciliation Monument, also known as the Confederate Memorial, “until Congress completes the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 appropriations process.”

In a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the GOP lawmakers said the monument’s removal “does not align with the original intent of Congress.”

  • ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee
    27·
    10 months ago

    FWIW, At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. Traditionally, this event has been used to mark the beginning of the Civil War.

    Source

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      12·
      10 months ago

      Read the very next sentence, and then the rest of the article.

      In the Senate, however, the fall of Sumter was the latest in a series of events that culminated in war.

      On November 6, 1860, in an election that brought the new Republican Party to national power, Abraham Lincoln was elected president by a strictly northern vote. Four days later, on November 10, Senator James Chesnut resigned his Senate seat and returned home to South Carolina to draft an ordinance of secession. One day later, South Carolina’s James Hammond also pledged to support the Confederacy “with all the strength I have.”

      Word for word, it supports what I wrote. The pro-slavery contingent already had a majority in government, and the secessionist resignations caused a crisis in government. They weren’t trying to take over, they were trying to leave because they had no faith in the power of the federal government to enforce slavery, which was the law of the land.