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The Red and Black • Thursday, April 26, 1990 • 3
Pro-Southern groups to honor dead Confederate soldiers and relatives
By STEPHANIE-LEA SMITH
Staff Writer
The State of Georgia and the
University are celebrating Confed
erate Memorial Day today.
The United Daughters of the
Confederacy and the Sons of Con
federate Veterans along with the
Culture of the South Association
are collaborating to commemorate
southern heritage.
Curt Collier, a senior business
m^jor and a member of the Culture
□f the South Association, said,
“Our goal is to keep history
straight. Many things are dis
torted. We want to better educate
people about the South."
At 4 p.m. the Sons of Confed
erate Veterans, along with the
Daughters of the Confederacy, will
hold a ceremony at the cemetery
honoring two daughters of Confed
erate soldiers.
Martha Clark, one of 48 local
members of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy, said she is
roud of her “heritage rich with
onor and glory ” Her organization
will place 229 flags on the graves of
Confederate soldiers at Oconee
Hill Cemetery today.
Clarke said, “It is our obligation
to tell the true history of the South,
and to appreciate what our ances
tors did.
Thomas Glenn, commander of
T.R.R. Cobb, Camp 97 of the Sons
of Confederate Veterans, Baid,
“Seven Confederate officers will be
dressed in authentic uniforms with
weapons for the ceremony.
“We want to pass on the values
we inherited to our children. We
have an appreciation of the people
who served for the Confederacy,"
Glenn said.
Eric Wise, a member of the Af
rican American Power organiza
tion and a sophomore journalism
major, said, “Confederate Day
doesn’t bother me. The soldiers
fought for what they thought was
right and some lost their lives for
the cause. Memorial Day is cele
brated in a tackful manner and is
not offensive.”
Collier said, ‘There are a lot of
negative feelings about the South.
The South is not any more racist
than anywhere else.
‘The Confederate flag is not con
trolled by any one single organiza
tion. No group — including the Klu
Klux KJan — can wrap themselves
in it and claim the flag is a symbol
of racism. It is a symbol of heritage,
not hatred,” he said.
Cerille Nassau, also a member of
African American Power and a se
nior political science major, said of
Confederate Memorial Day, “I
don't care one way or the other.
You can lose sight of the real issues
— like affirmative action."
Mainstream white, Anglo-
Saxon, Protestant Americans, who
influence society, don’t support
Confederate Memorial Day,
Nassau said.
“Unfortunately people view the
war between the states as one bed
guy against the good guy," Collier
said. “That wasn’t true."
The CSA will participate in to
day's events by hanging a mag
nolia wreath on the Confederate
monument statue on Broad Street.
Confederate Constitution to see light today
By STEPHANIE-lEA SMITH
Staff Writer
One of the University’s inval
uable possessions will be available
to the public today in conjunction
with Confederate Memorial Day.
The original Confederate Consti
tution will be on display from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hargrett Rare
Book ana Manuscript Library on
the third floor of the main library.
Thomas Camden, director of the
Hargrett Library, said, “the Con
stitution is only brought out of its
protective lead-lined copper tube
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once a year, because it is so
fragile."
The Constitution is 12 feet by 27
inches and a hand-written “formal
document that is supposed to simu
late a scroll. It’s size makes it more
dramatic,” he said.
The document was purchased
from the DeRenne family of Sa
vannah in 1944 for $10,000.
It is signed by three important
University graduates and former
Athens citizens: T.R.R. Cobb,
Howell Cobb and Alexander Ste
phens.
‘T.R.R. Cobb established the
Georgia Law School and the Lucy
Cobb Institute, as well as being a
composer of the Constitution,"
Camden said.
History professor Phinizy
Spalding said in some ways the
Confederate Constitution is a re
formed and superior version of our
U.S. Constitution because it in
cludes item veto, a way in which
unwanted portions of bills can be
eliminated.
The U.S. Constitution requires
that bills be passed in their en
tirety if they are going to become
law.
“It is important and invaluable
to the University that the Consti
tution is here. It will never be for
sale because it is part of Georgia’s :
cultural heritage,” Spalding said, j
“A security guard will be posted 1
outside the exhibit all day long,” |
Camden said.
“We have never had any prob
lems in the past and we don’t ex- j
pect any. The armed guard is
posted to protect the document at |
all costs from anything that may
happen to it,” Camden said.
killing shows need for gun control
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Gov. Joe Frank
Harris said Wednesday the
shooting spree in a suburban mall
this week that left one person dead
and four others injured “makes a
very strong statement” for stronger
gun laws in Georgia.
But several candidates who hope
to succeed Harris next January
promptly disagreed, and even
Harris acknowledged that many
Georgians aren’t ready to embrace
his view.
State Sen. Roy Barnes of Mab-
leton, a Democratic gubernatorial
candidate, said the fact that James
Calvin Brady, 31, was able to ob
tain a pistol Monday, the same day
he was released from a mental hos
pital, shows gun control laws don’t
work.
Barnes opposes gun control laws
and, as a legislator this year, voted
against a proposed law banning
the sale of assault weapons in
Georgia. The legislation failed.
There is no state law regulating
gun sales, but federal laws require
gun purchasers to offer identifica
tion and to answer a series of ques
tions, including whether they have
ever been involuntarily committed
to a mental hospital.
“Obviously, a truthful answer to
that question would have pre
vented such a quick purchase of a
gun. Tragically, this instance dem
onstrates that laws on gun control
do not work,” said Barnes.
State Rep. Lauren “Bubba” Mc
Donald, D-Commerce, another
Democratic gubernatorial candi
date, said the incident did not
cause him to re-think his opposi
tion to gun laws and added through
spokeswoman Jann Wheeler,
“Really, until we have more infor
mation about the situation, I don’t
think it is appropriate to com
ment."
But Harris, who supported the
proposed ban on assault weapons
this year, said the incident under
scores the need for tougher laws.
“I’m not sure any gun control
law would prevent something like
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this from happening ... but cer
tainly if you can make it harder for
someone to walk off the street and
purchase a weapon, as it appears
probably happened in this case, it
couldn’t help but be in the best in
terest of people who have a right to
live,” he said during his weekly
news conference.
Efforts in Atlanta to enact
waiting periods and to ban assault
weapons have been overturned in
the courts.
Lt. Gov. Zell Miller said at the
same forum he would weigh the
opinions of law enforcement offi
cers in making a decision on the
issue.
Harris said he would like to see
stronger gun laws take a high
place on the next governor’s
agenda, but added that probably is
not a mainstream position in
Georgia.
“Public sentiment has just not
risen in support enough to pass
Fulton County District Attorney
Lewis Slaton commented, “I don’t
mind people having guns. I just
think there ought to be a waiting
period before they can get them ...
(in which) the person applying
(could) be checked out for mental
disorders, criminal records.”
ernor said.
Calls to other major gubernato
rial candidates were not returned.
Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew
Young said at a forum last week
the answer is stronger federal
laws, adding it is no solution for a
city or state to act independently to
strengthen gun laws when its
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