In 1895 , the the great unwashed of Louisville buried a fourth dimension capsule with some rare Confederate artifact . It included everything from a cigar smoke by the Confederate President Jefferson Davis to some Confederate currency . This calendar week , the capsule was opened to break that it ’s now just a bunch ofsoggy food waste . How fitting .
The time abridgment has been the centre of controversy for some sentence , as it was resting underneath a heatedly turn over 70 - foot marvellous Confederate monument near the University of Louisville . When it was announced that the monument would be removed , several pro - Confederate chemical group litigate to stop it . But a judge ultimately reign that the monumentbelonged to the cityand that Louisville public official could do whatever they wanted with it .
The memorial was instal in 1895 , a full 30 year after the last of the Civil War , as a will to the greatness of the Confederacy — a traitorous move to retain thralldom in the Southern land and one that decent Americans now see as a minute of ignominy in our chronicle . The monument is now being go to a neighboring county site where it will pose amongst other token of the Civil War , rather than prominently expose in the eye of town .
As for the time abridgment , historian are doing their best to piece through the cadaver of what they think were photos , books , and a Bible , along with that cigar and currency .
“ It ’s hard to say at this dot whether the boxful was seal at all , ” Sarah Lindgren , the city ’s public artistic creation decision maker , told theCourier Journal . “ It certainly is n’t now and small-arm are falling apart . ”
The only noesis they have of what was in the capsule to begin with is an stock list leaning that was issue at the prison term . As the Courier Journal notes , the inventory list for the time capsule proclaimed at the prison term that the point were there to honour “ the South ’s great military man and her bewildered cause . ”
Anything that historians are able to salvage will be donate to the Filson Historical Society . But judge from the photos of the capsule alone , it ’s in question there will be anything worth save . The muttonhead Confederates who were glamourise their garbage history did n’t do a very well job preserving it for next generations .
Again , it seems quite fitting that a lost reason like the Confederacy would miss some of its artifacts to history . It ’s important to remember our past so that we ’re inclined to fight the forces of tyranny and oppression that necessarily rear their head in the future . But I dare say this country has enough Confederate history sitting right in public view .
Good riddance , treasonist .
[ Courier Journal ]
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