Enough with Confederate statues! Keep John Wilkes Booth's body in the ground!
As a native Marylander, it's humiliating enough for me to realize how Abraham Lincoln's killer was born in and is buried in the state. But, to have a statue of the murderer constructed to revive his memory is an embarrassing, chillingly stupid idea. What is going on with Republicans, who claim to support such an evil idea? An opinion letter opposes this horrible idea published in Maryland's Carroll County Times newspaper.
John Wilkes Booth was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a Virginia farm, 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. An account about his death is published at this site here. Booth's ashes are interred in his family's plot at the Baltimore Green Mount cemetery. Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, is buried in the Booth family plot with his name on the family monument, but he's the only Booth not to have his own tombstone. The family didn't think it would be a good idea. There's a tradition of counteracting the bad and superstitious juju at the grave by placing Lincoln head pennies face up on the headstones to "lock the assassin in the ground".
An echo opinion letter published in the Carroll County Times newspaper- "Say no to memorial featuring Lincoln’s killer"
It's outrageous that the Taneytown council is favorably considering erecting a Civil War monument by a Pennsylvania sculptor who is a member of several pro-Confederate groups. The monument is proposed to have a full-size statue of evil traitor John Wilkes Booth near a statue of our first- or second-greatest president Abraham Lincoln, whom Booth infamously assassinated. The infamy was so great that Booth’s family refused to have a marker at the traitor’s grave. (For what it’s worth, I think Washington was the greatest, but Lincoln was definitely second.)
The Washington Post had a strong article on this a few days ago. There have been many other media reports about this.
It will be a perpetual mark of shame on Carroll County if that monument is permitted to be built. The sculptor says he wants to show both sides of the dispute. But there can be no dispute over who was right and who was wrong in the Civil War, and it would be an incredibly disgusting travesty to erect a statute honoring the traitor Booth at this time! Taneytown leaders who think this would be good for business are terrible fools. And allies with treason.
Carroll County has become dominated by Republicans, although that was not the case for many decades before 1990. They claim to honor Lincoln, the greatest leader of the GOP. It’s incredible that they do not cry out in outrage and shame against an effort to erect to large new statue to Booth in Taneytown. It’s really shocking to me that they do not.
Bruce A. Hake Union Bridge, Maryland
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An echo opinion letter published in the Carroll County Times newspaper- "Say no to memorial featuring Lincoln’s killer"
It's outrageous that the Taneytown council is favorably considering erecting a Civil War monument by a Pennsylvania sculptor who is a member of several pro-Confederate groups. The monument is proposed to have a full-size statue of evil traitor John Wilkes Booth near a statue of our first- or second-greatest president Abraham Lincoln, whom Booth infamously assassinated. The infamy was so great that Booth’s family refused to have a marker at the traitor’s grave. (For what it’s worth, I think Washington was the greatest, but Lincoln was definitely second.)
The Washington Post had a strong article on this a few days ago. There have been many other media reports about this.
It will be a perpetual mark of shame on Carroll County if that monument is permitted to be built. The sculptor says he wants to show both sides of the dispute. But there can be no dispute over who was right and who was wrong in the Civil War, and it would be an incredibly disgusting travesty to erect a statute honoring the traitor Booth at this time! Taneytown leaders who think this would be good for business are terrible fools. And allies with treason.
Carroll County has become dominated by Republicans, although that was not the case for many decades before 1990. They claim to honor Lincoln, the greatest leader of the GOP. It’s incredible that they do not cry out in outrage and shame against an effort to erect to large new statue to Booth in Taneytown. It’s really shocking to me that they do not.
Bruce A. Hake Union Bridge, Maryland
Labels: Abraham Lincoln, Bruce A. Hake, Carroll County Times, Green Mount cemetery, Union Bridge Maryland
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