Why would all of these treasure be on an auction block, can they be donated to another Confederate Museum? ----- Original Message ----- From: <JohnnyMikeCraven@aol.com> To: <CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 3:17 AM Subject: [CHOCTAW-SE] The Forced Closure of The Confederate War Museum in New Orleans > > Hello List Members, > > The Confederate War Museum in New Orleans is one of the largest in > existence and has invaluable records on the people who served in the War > Between The States. > > It has invaluable lists of names of people who served on both sides of > the conflict which are available to all who are doing research on their > family history. I have found a lot of good info on my family there. > > Yet, it's very existence is totally and politcally incorrect in many > circles who wish people to be ignorant of their past. > > Among the many memorabilia are rare photos of blacks who fought for > the South as Free men and lists of names of Indians who fought for the South > during the war even though many Indians as we are well aware were enslaved. > > There is also a crown of thorns which was personally crafted by a > pope, I think it was Pius IX or Pius X, and sent to Jefferson Davis after the > war, not in support of slavery, mind you, because the popes had consistently > written against slavery since the early 1400's, but in appreciation of things > which Jefferson Davis had done for some of the religious nuns who worked in > the old South as I remember it from the display. There are many things like > that that are simply priceless but which some find politically incorrect in > our day and age and in need of censorship from the masses who might learn > something that they never knew before. > > The collection will fetch a great fortune on the auction block. > > It has been displayed at the same site since the early 1930's through > the genorsity of a man who donated the building it is in to the Museum. > > A couple of years ago, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in cahoots > with the University of New Orleans, surreptitiously produced a previously > unknown title to the building and has since tried to close the Museum because > they want the building and they don't want the museum next to their art. > > The Museum has fought this theft of their property ever since by > producing the original bequeathment of the building to them by its original > owner. > > But, in a confirmation of what Indeeunm had to say in an email to the > Choctaw-Southeast list on August 8, a local judge ruled that the Ogden Museum > had title to the building and can close the Museum which they did. The > Confederat Museum, of course, is appealing this appalling act of judicial > tyranny and political correctness and I pray that they prevail. > > I have no stock in the Confederate Museum. I only know what it has in > it and that it is priceless and that the people who run it are wonderful > people who work hard to maintain the collection and help all who are > interested in learning more about this part of American history. > > What the local judge, C. Hunter King, did in cahoots with his > accomplices in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the University of New > Orleans is totalitarianism. It is PC at its ultimate worst. > > Oh a solution for the Confederate Museum has been suddenly offered to > the Museum, that it give all of its priceless collection to the Louisiana > State Museum for storage in an hermetically sealed and dust free room where > almost no one will ever see it again. Maybe one or two items from its > priceless collection will be displayed at the Cabildo or elswhere but the > rest will be lost to history and the public's consciousness. > > Right across the street from the Confederate War Museum is the D-Day > Museum. At some point in time the Ogden politburo can decide that any museum > which recounts our nation's struggle to win WWII is not in keeping with their > vision of who should be in the neighborhood and engineer with the help of a > judicial accomplice the closure of the D-Day Museum where my cousin' jacket > is on display from his mission with Doolittle over Tokyo. > > In the email about Mississippi Choctaws, Indeeunme said much that > was very true about what the Chiefs of the Choctaw Nation had to face with > the coming of the American civilization when they signed the Treaty of > Dancing Rabbit Creek. > > I think that it is noteworthy that the Choctaw and the French and the > Spanish more or less managed to live in close proximity to each other without > the Choctaw losing everything but with the coming of the American nation, > they were forced to relocate much as the Confederate War Museum is being > treated in a blatant act of theft and censorship which is true goal of the > Ogden/University of New Orleans politburo. > > If the memorabilia of the War Museum is locked away that censors its > info from ordinary people doesn't it? And it can be done to the Confederate > War Museum it can be done with anything that it deemed politically incorrect > by people like those who run the Ogden Museum. What is to stop them from > doing something similar to the Choctaws if the Choctaw erected a museum on > land they wanted? Nothing. > Not even a treaty. > > As I recall the Indian memorabilia at the Confederate War Museum > provides an invaluable history lesson for all of our peoples and locking > these Indian artifacts away also denies Indians their rights as well to know > their history during this time of great suffering for our nation? > > This is a crime being perpertrated on people by the Ogden Museum and > the University of New Orleans for no good reason. > > I hope and pray that it will not prevail. > > John Craven > New Orleans > > > ==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > To subscribe to CHAHTA-L list discussions on history, culture, language. 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