The Latest: Former governor compares activists with Nazis

[mn9driver]

2. Here's an excerpt from the dedication speech by Julian Carr when this statue was erected in 1913

The present generation, I am persuaded, scarcely takes note of what the Confederate soldier meant to the welfare of the Anglo Saxon race during the four years immediately succeeding the war, when the facts are, that their courage and steadfastness saved the very life of the Anglo Saxon race in the South – When “the bottom rail was on top” all over the Southern states, and to-day, as a consequence the purest strain of the Anglo Saxon is to be found in the 13 Southern States – Praise God.
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One hundred yards from where we stand, less than ninety days perhaps after my return from Appomattox, I horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets of this quiet village she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady, and then rushed for protection to these University buildings where was stationed a garrison of 100 Federal soldiers. I performed the pleasing duty in the immediate presence of the entire garrison...

http://hgreen.people.ua.edu/transcription-carr-speech.html

The reference to the "four years immediately succeeding the war" is speaking of the founding of the KKK and their reign of terror. It should have been torn down long ago.