STRAUSS CALLS FOR REMOVAL OF CONTROVERSIAL PLAQUE

  

Texas House Speaker Joe Strauss is asking members of the Texas State Preservation Board to remove a plaque at the State Capitol that he says “distorts the history of the Civil War.”

The plaque was erected in 1959 by the Texas Division of the “Children of the Confederacy”.

Strauss says the plaque is “inaccurate” and that “Texans are not well-served by incorrect information.”

Local State Senator Lois Kolkhorst is a member of the agency’s governing board, along with Strauss, Governor Greg Abbott, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick and State Representative Charlie Geren of Ft. Worth.

Calls for the removal of the monument were first made by Dallas lawmaker Eric Johnson, but a meeting with Abbott was delayed by Hurricane Harvey.

Strauss has previously called for all monuments on the Capitol grounds be reviewed for historical accuracy.

The plaque titled “Children of the Confederacy Creed,” honors what it calls, “the heroic deeds of those who enlisted in the Confederate Army” and states: “We, therefore, pledge ourselves to preserve pure ideals, to honor our veterans, to study and teach the truths of history (one of the most important of which is that the war between the States was not a rebellion, nor was its underlying cause to sustain slavery) and to always act in a manner that will reflect honor upon our noble and patriotic ancestors.”

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  1. If this about slavery there should not be a statue or picture of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison,James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant anywhere in this country. All these men are former Presidents of our United States and all owned slaves. Robert E. Lee opposed slavery. Our history educators need to go back to school and learn true history and educate the young people on what the true history of our country really is and not the garbage they are forced to teach by the elite powers that be. If you are going to take down statues, monuments, plaques etc. then take them all down ,especially the ones mentioned above.

  2. They were brave souls
    Only doing at that time of the country ordered them to do

    If we’re going down the racist trail with this then I suggest we ban all Mexican flags from public places because under that flag Mexican generals killed in slave white people only because they were white and we would have to start erasing all Mexican history in the state furthermore, same goes for Egyptian artifacts Egyptian slave white people for 2000 years only because they were white now either history is a thing of the past for everyone or it’s not for anyone
    Everyone needs to learn from their mistakes and move forward digging up a dead cat in beating yourself with it on the people around you does no one any good

  3. If the civil war was all about slavery why were the states that did not join the South allowed to keep their slaves.

    1. Wait, are you telling me Lincoln didn’t free the slaves in the North with his emancipation proclamation because he knew he would have an internal revolt on his hands in the middle of his war? But wasn’t he supposed to think that all slavery is bad?

  4. What comes next? they are already attacked Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and the like. This will never end until US history is rewritten or forgotten. The ultimate agenda. Leaving it all up to the Biased to continue the distortion of everything.

  5. What the heck have they been teaching in school the last 30 years, oh that’s right Socialism. That explains it. Heck Isis tears down every statue and monument and museum of each town or country the take over let’s be like them and remove the past history that we don’t like.

  6. Get over it people. The South lost. There is no use perpetuating this insane Lost Cause narrative. It makes me laugh to see people fighting over the preservation of statues honoring Confederate generals, when their commander, General Lee, wrote after his death that they should not erect statues of him as it would perpetuate the fractious relationship between North and South. There is an old saying that goes “History is written by the victors”, this is true everywhere except for some reason in the United States of America.

    Oh, I’m also the descendant of a Confederate veteran.

    1. I doubt you are a decedent of a confederate veteran, heck my ancestors had not yet Immigrated from Germany at that point,. But the USA was the victor over both Japan and Germany in WW 2 and guess what they still have statues that honor their soldiers that fought and died against US and we haven’t made them take theirs down.

    2. General Lee wrote after his death?

      Now that’s a tidbit of history not found in books or manuscripts!

  7. This is just grandstanding. It has nothing to do with accuracy it’s just someone trying to jump in on a controversial subject

    1. This particular plaque may need to be removed. Oh, wait there is a committee that handles that and anyone can submit a request for review…so, why is this incident and Mr. Strauss in the news?

  8. The Civil war was about the violation of the By – Laws of the United States by the slavery states, period. They asked to be a state to afford themselves the benefits of the a republic. When they refused to obey the rules of that republic ( Bill of Rights) and fought to protect the right to own slaves. . To fight against the very nation that promised to give you its protection is not something to be honored or valued.

    1. History Buffer, you say that “to fight against the very nation that promised to give you its protection is not something to be honored or valued.” Did the British not promise to give the colonies protection? Does the mafia, drug cartels, street gangs, and your general thugs and pimps not offer protection in exchange for loyalty? You bet they do.
      Leftists promise security (single payer health, food and shelter of all kinds, safe zones, free education, social justice, stigma free sexual deviance, promotion of single family homes, free internet and phones) in exchange for loyalty (your vote/your freedom) everyday. Everyday conservatives tell the leftists like Strauss (yes we have plenty of liberal GOP) to keep their filthy hands off the country. But I can see how a leftist would think the surface level exchange of safety and security for loyalty is honorable. The Civil War was about states rights Buffer, and we’re going to have a do over sooner or later. The rift is only going to get bigger and the political impasse, stronger.

      1. It is apparent that you have not read the Texas Convention’s Declaration of Causes. Please do so.

  9. Leave our Monuments Alone !!! This is Total and Complete Hypocrisy. I got news for you: Strauss you were not there. Removal of long time monuments is Sickening.

    1. Very well said if we don’t have a history to learn from we don’t have a future to live to , to become. BETTER

    2. Strauss has news for you – the people who put up that plaque in 1959, they weren’t there either! However, they were living during the Civil Rights Movement, and fighting against it. That’s why the plaque is there, says what it says, rather than the truth.

      I don’t support the removal of memorials of soldiers from a particular area or town, for remembering. But I do support the moving of monuments from city squares and parks – a memorial is for a person, a monument honors an idea that is represented by a person. And the idea that the Confederacy is best known for needs to be removed from places of honor.

      1. Very well said. This is not a well-defined issue, and there are many, many unique viewpoints. I do not support removal because I believe ‘the rest of the story’ additions representing other viewpoints should be presented as well. This was not a one-sided issue, ever, and never will be.
        For every CSA statue, sign, or plaque, add more that tell more of the story from other perspectives. If balance or compromise cannot be achieved, then take them down, for they certainly do not tell the whole story. For instance, in the state of Texas, next to any plaque or memorial that perpetuates the Lost Cause narrative, I would post a bronze casting of the Texas Convention’s “Declaration of Causes” dated 2 February, 1861. While this document declaring Texas’ secession from the Union is readily available at the Texas State Library and Archives Commision’s website, I doubt many Texans have read it. Too bad, as it is quite illuminating. Once posted, folks can compare and make up their own minds.
        And cool your jets; being a direct descendant of a CSA veteran doesn’t require anyone to think a certain way. My great-great-great-grandfather’s CSA revolver on my mantle is in excellent condition and fully functional, but I would never fire it to defend all the same principles he did.

        1. Thank you for sharing the info on the “Declaration of Causes.” I had never read that document and found it to be very revealing.

          1. My pleasure, I wish more Texans would read it. I keep hearing how all that’s taught in American schools is socialism, yet the Brenham Public Schools I attended K-12 taught ABOUT socialism in the context of comparing types of governance, while amply illustrating the benefits of ‘Our’ democracy. Sadly, however, we didn’t cover the topic of why Texas joined the Confederacy in depth great enough to include the Declaration of Causes. I wonder why?

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