August 22, 2017
Matt Vespa wrote an article at Townhall.com concerning Chelsea Clinton's objections to Confederate statues. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/08/21/chelsea-clinton-the-story-of-lucifer-is-a-part-of-christianity-and-there-are-no-statues-to-him-at-church-n2371151?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
The following words from that article are NOT anything that Chelsea Clinton herself said. They are Matt Vespa's reasonable assumptions of what some Antifa and other leftists have said or strongly implied. Matt Vespa wrote:
"Yet, dig further and any person who is deemed unworthy in the eyes of progressives’ interpretation of history has to go. Yeah, that means George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, our first and third presidents respectively. They’re also some of our Founding Fathers, but they owned slaves. Everything must go: monument, statues, Monticello, and Mount Vernon."
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I happen to have visited Monticello and Mt. Vernon. Monticello was once owned and preserved by Uriah Levy and his family, a Jew and former Commodore in the U.S. Navy who personally got flogging of sailors outlawed in the Service. But the more complicated back story is that of Mt. Vernon.
Mt. Vernon was falling into a state of disrepair and a group of women would not stand for it. They formed the Mount Vernon Ladies Association and hectored to gather funds to restore the historic home and property. The Ladies Association still runs Mt. Vernon to this day. Decades ago, someone wanted to build either a shopping center or a sewage treatment plant on the Potomac River shore opposite Mt. Vernon. structures that would have spoiled the view from Mt. Vernon. The Ladies Association met with their friends in Congress and a stretch of land on the opposite shore in Maryland became the Piscataway National Park - with no sewage treatment plant.
Here is what the Mt. Vernon Ladies Society website says, in part:
http://www.mountvernon.org/preservation/mount-vernon-ladies-association/
The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association was the first national historic preservation organization and is the oldest women's patriotic society in the United States. Its pioneering efforts in the field of preservation set an important precedent and have served as a model for many.
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"If the men of America have seen fit to allow the home of its most respected hero to go to ruin, why can't the women of America band together to save it?â€
In 1853, Louisa Bird Cunningham wrote these words to her daughter, Ann Pamela Cunningham, after seeing the decrepit state of George Washington's home while traveling on the Potomac River.
Inspired by her mother's words, Cunningham took it upon herself to challenge the nation to save Mount Vernon. She founded the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association in 1853 and by 1858 had raised $200,000 dollars to purchase the mansion and two hundred acres.
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So
this is what those girls - yes, girls - with the pink wool hats want to
obliterate? A significant piece of women's history and successful
efforts in the U.S.? Speaking of hats, I once heard historian Newt
Gingrich talk about George Washington having his hat shot off his head
in battle (I believe it was the French and Indian War). A Native
American participant in the battle later said they were trying to kill
him but couldn't - and they thought Washington had protection from
Divine Providence.
The
Mount Vernon Ladies Association has also partnered with the Ford Motor
Company to fund online education and classroom lesson plans about George
Washington. The relationship goes back to Henry Ford I's funding of the
Association. Student Education can be seen at this page of their
website: http://www.mountvernon.org/education/for-students/
George Washington freed his slaves in his written will. I believe Mt. Vernon is a better historic lesson for young and old alike than a looking at a waste treatment plant on the opposite Potomac shore.
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