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.”
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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.