Later in the day visitors were treated to a fish fry and fellowship. There were 150 attendees (100 for the tour and an additional 50 who came out for the fish fry.

What a great way to educate the public and visit with friends old and new!- webmaster. 

Missouri Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans Calls for Hate-Crimes prosecution for Perpetrators of Monument Vandalism

Contact: Commander Jim England- cjengland@mindspring.com

Contact: Clint E. Lacy – mobushwhacker@att.net  573.208.5916

The Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Southeast Missourian newspaper found at the following URL,

http://www.semissourian.com/story/177254  carried a story about a Cape Girardeau, Mo. Confederate monument being vandalized.

This seemingly isolated incident is one of many that are occurring throughout the South. Monuments honoring veterans who fought for the Confederate States of America have been maligned by politicians on both sides of the aisle as well as media outlets.

Political Correctness has run amok. It has infiltrated our schools and our communities, resulting in the “dumbing down” of our students, our citizens, our family, friends and neighbors and the end result is ignorance, the latest display of which happens to be the vandalizing of a monument to soldiers from Cape Girardeau County and Southeast Missouri who gave their lives for their homes, their families, their ideals and their country.

The 1964 Federal Civil Rights Law, 18 U.S.C.§ 245(b)(2), permits federal prosecution of anyone who “willingly injures, intimidates or interferes with another person, or attempts to do so, by force because of the other person’s race, color, religion or national origin”

The Missouri Sons of Confederate Veterans strongly condemns the vandalizing of veterans monuments and calls for the swift prosecution of those who perpetrate these types of acts as hate crimes.

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“A Civil War monument on the grounds of the Common Pleas Courthouse in Cape Girardeau was struck by vandals who spray-painted both sides of the shrine with apparent pro-Union sentiments, nearly 150 years after the last shot was fired.

A two-man crew scrubbed black paint off the monument Tuesday morning. The men, from Marble Hill, Mo.-based Liley Monuments, said they hoped it would be graffiti-free by Tuesday afternoon.

But the message could still be read early Tuesday afternoon. “Go south” was written on the front of the shrine that sits along Lorimier Street near the fountain. That apparently was a request that the marker be moved, not a pro-South message. “We are in the union,” read the words on the back. “Obscene. Remove to [illegible] cemetary (sic) in the south.”

The workers from Liley said Tuesday afternoon they had tried industrial solvent and paint thinner, and the words were faded but still visible. One of the workers said getting the paint completely off Tuesday didn’t “look favorable,” but they would continue working through the afternoon.

By 3 p.m., a blue tarp had been wrapped around the monument and the workers were gone.”

Bill O’Reilly didn’t stop there, he actually said that we need another Lincoln “right now” and that Lincoln was America’s greatest president.

Apparently George Washington  didn’t “Factor” into Bill O’Reilly’s assessment of just who America’s greatest president was.

The facts:

• Lincoln did “unify” the nation…at the cost of our freedom which was protected by the rights of our states prior to the Civil War
• Yes the country was divided but ”Honest Abe” brought it together by sacrificing over 620,000  American lives.

Yes I guess Lincoln was very much a “uniter”, much in the same sense that Pol Pot and Mao Tse Tung were “uniters” of their country.

Excuse me, but it looked like Osceola Cheese was doing brisk business the day that this interview was filmed.  Amazing given the fact that Osceola Cheese General Manger Chris Hannah said he received an astounding 6 emails from Kansas that were negative.  Not only was Osceola Cheese doing brisk business the day the above interview was filmed (Sept. 23, 2011) but in another tv interview found by clicking on THIS LINK, Hannah adds that he’s now getting negative emails from “both sides” and that he didn’t have a say in the resolution , ( note to Hannah: you can call City Hall and ask them what is on the agenda) Although in this news interview the anchorman actually makes note of just how busy the store was.

This is a nice twist by the media, and the Liberals of kU. They are trying to make the case that this resolution is damaging the town’s prosperity while at the same time trying to de-emphasize the fact that was done by Kansans 150 years ago.

This is like anything else Civil War related, when you expose the truth about Yankee atrocities , they get their feathers ruffled ( pun intended).

Our history is written in “Blue Ink” and many of the atrocities committed in Missouri were covered up so that the good citizens of Lawrence , Ks could claim the victim status when Missourians fighting under Quantrill were finally pushed past their breaking point and decided to raid the epicenter of Jayhawker activity.

What exactly is a “Jayhawk”? Author Donald Gilmore offers us this explanation:

As usual the KU folks extensively glamorized the meaning of the Jayhawkers. Page 90 of my book describes the real origin of the term Jayhawking: “The term Jayhawking is said to have originated with the activities of a maraudeer named Pat Devlin who, when he rode into Linn County ond day loaded with plunder from Missouri, was asked where he obtained it. He said he ‘Jayhawked’ it. When asked what that meant, he explained that in Ireland, his homeland, there was a bird that ‘worries its prey before he devours it [kills it]. He claimed that’s what he was doing.” Others believed Jayhawking was “a fancy name for horse stealing.”

Historian Hildegarde Herklotz defines the term more precisely (Page 91): “referring to it as a species of land privateering or political freebooting. The Jayhawkers banded together and galloped over the country, appropriating horses, cattle, farming implements, guns, and in short,whatever came their way. They claimed that they never robbed or hung anyone who entertained the same political organization as themselves.” Jayhawker, in fact, were often indiscriminate robbers and murderers, especially in Missouri after the outset of the Civil War.

Source: Donald L. Gilmore, Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 2005), 90-91, footnotes 15 and sixteen, chapter 5: Hildegarde Rose Herklotz, “Jayhawkers in Missouri 1858-1863,” First article, Missouri Historical Review 17, no. 3 (1923): 267, 268, 270; Council Grove Press, November 30, 1863.

On September 15th, 2011 the Columbia Daily-Tribune published an article that gained national attention in the news media. Who would have thought that the national spotlight would be on a small southwest Missouri town. But that is exactly what happened to Osceola, Missouri when the Tribune reported about a resolution passed by the Osceola Missouri City Council calling on the University of Kansas to drop the “Jayhawk” as its mascot. According to Rudy Keller (the Tribune reporter that broke the story):

“Osceola, a community of about 950 people in St. Clair County, has a message for the University of Kansas: It is time to consider dropping the mascot name “Jayhawk” and ending the school’s association with “a group of domestic terrorists.” “In a resolution the Osceola Board of Aldermen passed Tuesday — on the eve of the 150th anniversary of a Civil War raid by Kansans that destroyed the town — the city condemned “the celebration of this murderous gang of terrorists by an institution of ‘higher education’ in such a brazen and malicious manner.”

For most people, the events of Sept. 22-23, 1861, are a little-remembered episode in the larger guerrilla war in Missouri.

But the people of Osceola have never forgotten. “I grew up here, and it is all I heard about when I was attending grade school and high school,” Mayor Larry Hutsler said. “Everyone knew who was responsible.”

The reaction from the University of Kansas was short, sweet and rather uncaring, Keller quoted the KU News service director writing that, “In an emailed comment on the resolution, KU News Service Director Jill Jess said: “A Jayhawk is a blue bird with a red head and a big yellow beak that wears boots. It would be hard to confuse it with anyone with terrorist intent, though we admit we have been terrorizing the Tigers on the basketball court for some time. Tigers have been known to kill people. Bears, too.”

It is a form of hypocrisy, if you will. Hypocrisy because Kansas has always claimed the victim status in William Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Ks in August 1863, but few are willing to admit that Sen. Jim Lane’s “Jayhawker” raid on Osceola  was one of the major causes for the raid on Lawrence.

KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little’s response was as equally tart. In a “Fireside Chat” interview with Kansan.Com (published Sept. 18, 2011) Chancellor Little, in response to be questioned about the Osceola resolution replied by saying “We considered their suggestions yesterday from 5 p.m. to 5:01 p.m. It has been taken into consideration. We are not planning on eliminating the Jayhawk name from our mascot. I hope the people of Osceola have some worthwhile things to do. And we take that suggest with the spirit in which it was sent.”

The response can certainly be described as “uncaring”. Ironic given the fact that in an article published on June 20, 2009 by the Topeka Capital-Journal ( “At the helm: Bernadette Gray-Little New chancellor plans to reduce spending while trying to get KU designated as cancer institute” ) Little was described as having a “reputation at UNC for dealing with problems in a positive, straight-forward manner” by Richard Mann, vice chancellor for finance and administration at UNC. Who stated that he had known Little for 21 1/2 years.

It is also stated in the June 20, 2009 Topeka Capital-Journal article that Little’s starting salary was to be set at ” $425,000 — $267,177 in state funds and $157,823 from private sources” One would think that the generous salary (along with her reputation for getting things done in a positive manner” , Chancellor Little would have given the issue somewhat more attention than the 60 seconds she publicly stated she devoted to the Osceola resolution.

On Monday September 19, 2011 I attempted to contact Chancellor Little regarding her views on the Osceola resolution, in the email I asked:

“Given the fact that Ole Miss University recently dropped its “Colonel” mascot due to complaints from the African-American community (which were similar to the complaints that the City of Osceola has against the KU mascot) ; What would your reaction have been if the Chancellor at Ole Miss issued a statement saying that that they considered dropping the Colonel mascot from 5:00pm-5:01 pm and that they were not going to do away with it? “

Apparently, Chancellor Little is devoting more than 60 seconds to my question, I have yet to receive a response from her- Editor

The above video is a good representation of the war crimes committed by Kansas Jayhawkers in Osceola, Missouri in September, 1861. The City Council of Osceola, Missouri recently decided to make a bold and unusual stand by passing a resolution that asked the university of Kansas to drop its “Jayhawk” mascot because it represents the act of domestic terrorism committed by Senator Jim Lane’s “Jayhawks”.  The resolution is unusual in a sense that it is not often that a City Council takes a stand for TRUTH.

Please notify the City of Osceola and Thank them for their courage and for helping to educate the public on the true history of Missouri.

You can send correspondence by email at:  oscclerk@tri-lakes.net

Or you can call the Mayor of Osceola personal and ask them to stand firm in their decision by dialing: 417-646-8421

It is imperative that we support the City of Osceola in their decision- Editor