Protest and Memory at the Monument

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Talk to your doctor. callall one eight hundred five four five five nine sevven nine or visit zbound. liily d. com Welcome to Stuff You Miss in History Class, a production of Hart Radio. Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry. While I was getting ready to kind of wind down for the evening on june fourth, I was scrolling on my phone thing to do for your mental health in the evening, I'm kidding try not to. I'm trying not to But I was scrolling and saw a headline from the Washington Post that said, quote, Park Service orders removal of woke quotes at Boston's Bunker Hill Monument. about interpretive material being removed from national parks and other federally managed properties for more than a year now after that restoring truth insanity to American history executive order that came out in March of twenty twenty five. so this headline. was not really surprising I had this initial reaction that was like, o, another one. And then as I read the article, it veered more toward confusion A visitor complaint had led to a quote about women's suffrage prompting a review. and then that led to the order to take all of this other material down. And according to the article, Qotes that were flagged to be removed did not actually include the one about suffrage from the initial complaint, but it did include One about the Vietnam War One from a letter to the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and one that was supportive of foreign born citizens, so immigrants to the United States. And then I was just confused becausecause there was really no context in the article about why these quotes were there suggesting that they didn't belong there It justt it didn't quite make sense. There seemed to be no context. All of these quotes dated to a hundred years or more after the Battle of Bunker Hill Only one of them seemed to reference it directly An article in the Boston Globe that I saw the next morning had some more context and it actually had pictures of the panels that the quotes are on But I still felt like I was having to piece together For myself What kind of exhibit quotes might have been a part of None of the news reporting I read explained partart of it And that included after some more information was added to the Washington Post article that I had originally read later on. So I went down to the Bunker Hill Monument And I came away with the sense that very soon after that monument was completed It started to be about a lot more than just the battle that took place on june seventeenth of seventeen seventy five But we will start with the Battle of Bunker Hill as background for this. Tensions had been escalating between Britain and its colonies in North America for a while when the first shots were fired in Massachusetts on april nineteenth, seventeen seventy five British forces had marched to Lexington and Concord to seize the colonist' weapons and gunpowder Riders rode out from Boston to raise the alarm, which was of course, the inspiration for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's eighteen sixty poem Paul Rvere's ride Thanks to that warning, colonial militia, including minuteemen who were required to be ready for battle at a moment's notice, were ready They successfully defended Lexington and Concord and drove the British back to Boston After this, militia from Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island all marched to the area around Boston to help defend it Soon, the British were besieged in Boston, while the colonies defended and fortified the surrounding settlements in the area around Boston. by the late spring of seventeen seventy five, there were still two sites in particular that were vulnerable to British artillery fire. There's were Dorchester Heights to the south of Boston and the hills of Charlestown to the north across the Charles River. Derchester Heights and Charlestown are both part of Boston today, but at the time, they were not. they were separate settlements and The landscape around Boston was also a lot different. The area that's called Back Bay today was an actual bay, and Boston and Charlestestown were peninsulas kind of facing each other and each of them connected to the surrounding land by a narrow neck British General Thomas Gage intended to seize both Dorchester Heights and Charlestown in an effort to weaken the colonists uprising Colonial forces found out about this plan and decided to fortify Bunker Hill in Charlestown, which was the tallest hill in the area For unclear reasons, the militia started fortifying Beds Hill instead This may have just been a misunderstanding since these hills were known by multiple names and Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill. are basically next to each other The colonial forces built a redoubt, basically a ditch with a wall made from the earth dug out of it, during the night of june sixteenth, seventeen seventy five That was followed by a chest high fortification called a breastwork off to the side Building these kinds of fortifications was one of the strengths of the colonial militias, since many of them were farmers and they were very used to this kind of manual labor. And Yeahah, there are several different battles where the British were like come from How'd you do that? wasasn't here yesterday. When the sun came up on june seventeenth, the British quickly realized what was happening on the hill British General William Howe sent troops to attack the fortification and to try to take the hill Hill was defended by forces led by Colonel William Prescott of questionable details have become part of the lore around this battle. One is that the colonial volunteers were told to hold their fire until they could see the whites of the British soldiers' eyes This saying actually predates this battle, and its connection to Bunker Hill was apparently popularized by Mason Log Weems. The same person who invented the story about George Washington chopping down the cherry tree Another bit of lore is about the first fatality, which is often cited as being Aa Pllard of Bilrecca who was struck in the head by a cannon ball that was fired from a ship anchored in the harbor during an initial bombardment. So before the fighting had really started He was decapitated to the absolute horror of the men around him Some of those men fled because they were so terrified There are some inconsistencies in the accounts of this. There are multiple accounts of somebody being struck in the head by a cannon ball Rles definitively saying that it was Acea Pollard did not appear until around the fiftieth anniversary of the battle regardless of these sort of problematic and incorrect pieces of lore, the colonial militia successfully defended Breeds Hill against two advances by the British Army But by the third advance, the men defending the hill were exhausted and they were running out of ammunition. The British force also received reinforcements, while the American Force did not. So the remaining defenders retreated and the British captured the hill By that point, a lot of Charlestown had been destroyed. Most of its population had already fled, leaving only about two hundred people there and a lot of empty buildings General Howe ordered Charlestown to be burned when it became clear that colonial militia were using the rooftops and the windows of abandoned buildings as vantage points to fire on the British So the Battle of Bunker Hill was a loss for the colonies. But most sources frame it as a puric victory for the British About four hundred and fifty Americans were killed, wounded, or captured, compared to one thousand fifty four on the British side That included nineteen officers The British also faced disproportionately greater losses than the Americans. There were about two thousand two hundred colonial militia at the battle thousand from the British arrmy. Yeah, so there were more on the British side, but not enough to account for the difference in the casualty numbers After this encounter, the British dropped their plan to try to capture Dorchester Heights, and that remained unclaimed and undefended until the Continental Army took possession of it in March of seventeen seventy six And then brought up some cannons they had captured at Fort Ticonderoga ultimately led to the British evacuation from Boston on march seventeenth of that year. That's now celebrated annually in Boston and other parts of Suffolk County, Massachusetts as Eacuation Day It also had an impact on the colonists and on the Continental Army, which was established on june fourteenth, seventeen seventy five. In the speech he gave at the dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument after it was completed, Daniel Webster summed those impacts up this way. quote, It was the first G Battle of the Revolution, and not only the first blow, but the blow which determined the contest It did not indeed, put an end to the war, but in the then existing hostile state of feeling, the difficulties could only be referred to the arbitration of the sword And one thing is certain After the New England troops had shown themselves able to face and repulse the regulars, it was decided that peace never could be established but upon the basis of the independence of the colonies When the sun of that day went down, the event of independence was no longer doubtful In a few days, Washington heard of the battle, and he inquired if the militia had stood the fire of the regulars. When told that they had not only stood that fire, but reserved their own till the enemy was within eight rods and then poured it in with tremendous effect Then exclaimed he, the liberties of the country are safe The consequences of this battle were just of the same importance as the Revolution itself O we will get to the consequences after a sponsor break Living with a rare autoimmune condition can bring a lot of uncertainty, but it can also bring people together in powerful ways. Tune in for season six of Untold stories Life withith a severe Autoimmune condition, a Ruby Studio production in partnership with Argenics. 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And as usual, someone just might break into song. From leather bars to bathhouses, dance floors to drag brunch, nothing stays off limits. These are the kinds of insights that can only come from experience. So listen to your elders, honey, and discover the silver linings you can take with you All SS, zero filter, and decades of perspective from four friends, proving that queer joy only gets better with age on the podcast that never gets old. Listen to silver Linings available on the iHart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Alrighty, there is excited and then there is vacation excited. and we are vacation excited right now because we have a trip planned to Baha Mar in Nassau. To be honest, I'm kind of mentally already checked in and I have a beautiful drink in my hand. What I love about this is that you can do it your way. There are three luxury hotels all in one place, the Refined Rosewood, the playfully hip SLS, or the stylish Grand Hyatt. So no matter what your vibe is, if it's relaxed, if it's glam, if it's kind of somewhere in between You're covered and then there is everything else. This is like an embarrassment of options. There are more than forty five restaurants, bars and lounges, incredible chefs, incredible drinks. I'm going to be all over that. There is a lot of great nightlife that you can get into like the John Baptiste Jazz Club, which I am also very excited about. If you are a family going to visit, there's a fifteen acre water park. and what I am also excited about shark and sea turtle encounters brring them on and don't even get me started about the daily fllamingo parade. If you're into sporty stuff, all there. There is a golf course, tennis, pickleball, anything you can think of. Tracy's gonna spend a lot of time at the spa and we arere gonna to spend a lot of time enjoying ourselves. There's excited and then there is Baha Mar vacation exxcited. 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Download it for free The Battle of Bunker Hill lasted for about two hours, but the revolutionary war continued for eight years until the Treaty of Paris of seventeen eighty three From time passed, then in seventeen ninety four, King Solomon's Lodge, which is a Masonic lodge that still exists today, erected a monument to honor their Masonic brother and grandmaster Dr. Joseph Warren, who had died in the battle Warren was second general in command of the Massachusetts Forces, but he fought on the front lines of the battle alongside the regular volunteer militia This monument was shaped like a pillar with an urn on the top, and it was placed at the approximate site on Breeds Hill where Warren was killed At first, there wasn't much discussion of some kind of other Bunker Hill monument But in the eighteen twenties, people around the US started becoming more interested in the revolutionary W and in battles that had taken place near where they lived By then, even the youngest veterans of the war were getting into their sixties People wanted to honor them and to preserve their memories of the war before they died Also, the W of eighteen twelve had ended in eighteen fifteen and it had been controversial and divisive Some people thought commemorating the Revolution could bolster patriotism and unity in the wake of that later conflicted war The fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence was in eighteen twenty six, and of course, there were other fiftieth anniversaries related to the Revolutionary War before and after that. So people were also just interested in building monuments and planning commemorations throughout this period In Charlestown, someone who owned part of the Bunker Hill battlefield planned to sell it The Bunker Hill Monument Association was formed in eighteen twenty three to purchase this land and preserve the battlefield. as well as to construct a monument and to maintain the tradition of commemorating the battle every june seventeenth The association took out a loan to buy fifteen acres of the battlefield site in eighteen to twenty four and then raised funds to repay that loan and to start construction on a monument. King Solomon's Lodge also donated their original monument and the land that it was on with the understanding that their monument would be represented somehow at the new monument It had fallen into disrepair already, so it couldn't just be left standing. There is a model of that monument in the bottom of the Bunker Hill monument today In eighteen twenty five, a call went out for artists to submit proposals for the monuments's design. The winner was Horatio Greenaow, who would go on to become one of the first American sculptors to attain international recognition He would also do some controversial commissions for the federal government. I feel like that's a whole other story The Monument Association had planned for it to be shaped like a pillar, but Greenhouse's design was an obelisk As he said in his memoirs, quote, the obelisk has to my eye a singular aptitude in its form and character to call attention to a spot memorable in history It says but one word, but it speaks loud If I understand its voice, it says here It says no more The Marquita Lafayette laid the monuments's cornerstone at a ceremony on the fiftieth anniversary of the battle On an earlier visit to the battlefield, he had called it, quote, where the blood of American patriots, early and gloriously spilled, aroused the energy of three millions and secured the happiness of ten millions and of many other millions of men in times to come So side note, the Marquita Lafayette was another Freemason U and another side note, he collected soil from the battlefield during that earlier visit And his son sprinkled it on his grave after Lafayette died in eighteen thirty four In eighteen twenty five, Solomon Willard was hired to be the architect and superintendent of the monument The plan evolved for the obelisk to have a spiral staircase on the inside and to be built from granite, quarried from Quincy, Massachusetts eleven miles away. Ganite blocks were transported to the Naponet River by one of the first horse drawn railways in the US. It was the first known to operate commercially. And then they were carried the rest of the way by ship This project ran out of money repeatedly Part of the battlefield was sold off in the eighteen thirties because of a lack of funds Their first wave of construction built eighty five feet of obelisk out of a planned two hundred, and then it stopped The obelisk just sat there, not quite half finished for about a year and a half There were repeated fundraisers, including a donation drive that was specifically aimed at women and children hoping they would donate the small amounts of money they had. eighteen forty, Sarah Jesspha Hale organized a ladies' fair at Faniel Hall Market, which is now known as Quincy Market Hale was already a big part of the fundraising efforts, especially it came to those ones that were aimed at getting women and children to donate small amounts. and her efforts were pretty controversial There were people who thought that women had no right to give money from their household funds which really belonged to their husbands Although charitable women's fairs already existed, some people thought this one in particular was unseemly because the women were raising money for a war monument Not doing something like helping the poor In spite of all this, over the course of september tenth through fifteenth of eighteen forty, this fair raised more than thirty thousand dollars That was about a quarter of the money that was still needed, and that success inspired a couple of other major donations, along with a lot of smaller fundraising efforts The Bunker Hill mononument was finally completed in eighteen forty two seventeen years after Lafayette had laid that first cornerstone two hundred and twenty one feet, it was the tallest monument in the US until the creation of the Washington monument. That wouldn't be completed until eighteen eighty four. There are two hundred and ninety four steps inside leading up to the top The Bunker Hill Monument was dedicated on june seventeenth, eighteen forty three, on the sixty eighth anniversary of the battle Daniel Webster, again another Freemason, gave its dedication speech. and that speech makes it clear that the monument already That's not just about the battle He called the monument a shrine to liiberty. and said, quote, It brings to our contemplation on the seventeenth of june, seventeen seventy five. and the consequences which have resulted to us to our country and to the world from the events of that day and which we know must continue to reign influence on the destinies of mankind to the end of time elevation with which it raises us high above the ordinary feelings of life. Surpass all that the study of the closet or even the inspiration of genius can produce Today it speaks to us. Its future auditories will be the successive generations of men as they rise up before it and gather around it That speech will be of patriotism and courage, of civil and religious liberty. free government. of the moral improvement and elevation of mankind, and of the immortal memory of those who with heroic devotion have sacrificed their lives for their country. Later he said Let us remember that we have duties and obligations to perform corresponding to the blessings which we enjoy Let us remember the trust, the sacred trust attaching to the rich inheritance which we have received from our fathers. Let us feel our personal responsibility to the full extent of our power and influence for the preservation of the principles of civil and religious liberty And let us remember that it is only religion and morals and knowledge that can make men respectable and happy under any form of government Let us hold fast the great truth that communities are responsible as well as individuals that no government is respectable, which is not just that without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity and honor, No mere forms of government, no machinery of laws can give dignity to political society In our day and generation, let us seek to raise and improve the moral sentiments so that we may look notot for a degraded, but for an elevated and improved future And when both we and our children shall have been consigned to the house appointed for all living, may love of country and pride of country glow with equal fervor among those to whom our names and our blood shall have descended And then, when honored and decrepit age shall lean against the base of this monument, and troops of ingenuous youth shall be gathered around it And when that one shall speak to the other of its objects, the purposes of its construction, and the great and glorious events with which it is connected, there shall rise from every youthful breast to the ejaculation, Thankk God, I, I also am an American Obviously an intensely patriotic work one that's basically like this work isn't done yet. We must all carry it on with us Other work at the monument, meaning physical work, not sort of the moral work of the country, followed afterward, including a statue of Joseph Warren installed in eighteen fifty seven and one of Colonel William Prescott in eighteen eighty one A Greek revival style lodge was built next to the monument to act as both a museum and a place to sell tickets to climb up those interior steps. that money helping to pay for the monuments' ongoing maintenance and upkeep That lodge was finished in nineteen oh three In nineteen nineteen, the Bunker Hill Monument Association handed the monument, lodge, and grounds over to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Boston National Historical Park was established in nineteen seventy four, and the monument was transferred to the National Park Service a year later Bucker Hill Museum opened in a building across the street from the monument in two thousand seven That building had been home to the Charlestown branch of the Boston Public Library, which had moved to a new location Some of the displays and dioramas that had been in the lodge moved into the new museum On the seventy fifth anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill in eighteen fifty, seven years after the monument's completion Edward Everett, one of the founders of the Monument Association, gave a speech. He talked about the Battle of Bunker Hill and the growing division between the North and the South and his hope for the union to be preserved. And he also talked about the monuments's meaning beyond just commemorating that one battle We borrowed the form of the monument from the structures of ancient Egypt, but we did not intend that it should stand like the obelisks and pyramids, a silent mystery to the successive generations that gaze upon them. We wish that from time to time, there should go forth a faithful record of the glorious event and of the all important principles to which the monument is consecrated And while the majestic shaft itself, from the clouds to which it towers, shall address its solemn eloquence to the eye the pen and voice to the end of time should interpret its illustrious significance to the understanding and the heart say I don't know that he thoroughly understands the purpose of ancient Egyptian monuments and structures, but he is again saying. This is a monument for work and ideas that are continuing U we will get to this idea and how it manifested after we paused for a sponsor break. Living with a rare autoimmune condition can bring a lot of uncertainty, but it can also bring people together in powerful ways. Tune in for seeason six of Untold stories, Life with a severe autoimmune condition, a Ruby Studio production in partnership with Argenics. This season, host Martine Hackett brings you fresh stories from people living with MG and CIDP and expands the conversation to people living with other rare conditions like myositis and IGAM Through their stories, you'll learn what it's like to participate in clinical trials seeking new treatments, how connection fuels hope, and how people can support one another along the way. Because living with a rare disease isn't about getting through it, it's about moving forward together. Listen to Untold stories, life with a severe autoimmune condition on the IiHart radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts Yes, who's back in the house The Old Gays returned for season two of Silver Liningings, their hit podcast from IiHart's Ruby Studio in partnership with Vve Healthcare. Just wait until you hear what hosts Robert, McBill and Jessse have in store this time around. They stret back down memory lane, navigating life loveove, loss, and everything that shaped them along the way. And as usual, someone just might break into song. From leather bars to bathhouses, dance floors to drag brunch, nothing stays off limits. These are the kinds of insights that can only come from experience. So listen to your elders, honey, and discover the silver linings you can take with you All SS, zero filter, and decades of perspective from four friends, proving that queer joy only gets better with age on the podcast that never gets old. Listen to Silver Linings available on the iHart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Alrighty, there is excited and then there is vacation excited. and we are vacation excited right now because we have a trip planned to Bahja Mar in Nassau. To be honest, I'm kind of mentally already checked in and I have a beautiful drink in my hand What I love about this is that you can do it your way. There are three luxury hotels all in one place, the Reined Rosewood, the playlfully hip SLS, or the stylish Grand Hyatt. no matter what your vibe is, if it's relaxed, if it's glam, if it's kind of somewhere in between, you're covered. and then there is everything else. This is like an embarrassment of options. There are more than forty five restaurants, bars and lounges Incredible chefs, incredible drinks. I'm going to be all over that. There is a lot of great nightlife that you can get into like the John Baptiste Jazz Club, which I am also very excited about. If you are a family going to visit, there's a fifteen acre water park and what I am also excited about shark and sea turtle encounters, bring them on and don't even get me started about the daily fllamingo parade If you're into sporty stuff, all there. There is a golf course, tennis, pickleball, anything you can think of. Tracy's going to spend a lot of time at the spa and we are going spend a lot of time enjoying ourselves. There's excited and then there is Bahamar vacation excited. Start planning your perfect getaway at bahamar. comot Dude, my kid loves Marvel Spider Man now. No way. How? Lingo Kids, they have Spider Man themed activities. It's completely safe, like if someone took our comics and made them perfect for a four year old. I still hang on to my old collection. Does it have Disney Moana too? My daughter is obsessed. Disney Moana, Frozen, Zoopia, it's all in there. I'm downloading this right now. 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On Friday, june twelfth, which is now four days ago, as of this recording, United States District Judge Angel Kelly forbade the Department of the Interior and the Park Service from taking any further action to implement the Secretary of the Interior's restoring trruth insanity to American History orrder at National Park sites So they are not supposed to be taking things down at the national parks anymore pending further court So this is the second time that I have written an entire episode of this podcast about material being removed from the national parks and then the legal situation surrounding that material has changed in between writing it and recording it and I have had to go in and make additions and changes We are still going to talk about these panels though, even though to my as far as I know, unless something else changes legally, they are not currently at risk of being removed becausecause again, this whole episode was already written when that happened. Some of what is on the panels is the kind of material that people would probably expect at this kind of monument There's a quote from the Bunker Hill Monument Association about the monument, and that is paired with a painting by John Trumble depicting the death of Joseph Warren There's information about the original memorial that was raised by King Soalomon's Lodge The formation of the Bunker Hill Monument Association how long it took to build the monument and how expensive it was There is a quote from Sarah Josepha Hale about raising those funds The panels are not just about the battle and the building of the monument The way that the room is laid out, the panel that a person would probably walk past First On the way to go climb all those steps Qote, Today, more than two hundred and fifty years later, you are visiting the legacy of many generations since They came here to build, create, retell, and challenge stories about the Battle of Bunker Hill and the creation of the United States of America The challenges start on the very next panel with a quote from Caleb Stark, whose name is shown as Caleb Strong on the banner Caleb Stark was only sixteen years old and too young to serve in the militia, but he ran away from home to do it anyway. After the Battle of Bunker Hill, he spent the next eight years in the Continental Army After the war was over, Stark got married and had children and started advocating for the rights of veterans By this point, a lot of veterans viewed the Revolutionary War as a whole string of broken promises and unmet obligations on the part of the government Some soldiers were promised land in lieu of back pay and they never received it Pension programs applied only to soldiers who had served in the Continental Army, not in the militias or the state regiments that way more people served in While there was some state and federal support for impoverished and disabled veterans, the first really broad pension program applying to all veterans The Pension Act of eighteen thirty two. That was passed almost fifty years after the end of the Revolutionary War after a lot of those veterans had already died Stark's own land grant came through only after a lawsuit against the government that ended in eighteen twenty eight To my knowledge was not focused on the rights of the enslaved people who had volunteered thinking that it would help free them. But that is another thing that was going on Regardless though, Stark thought that all of that stuff that I just said about broken promises and missed payments and all of that, he thought that was not right So when he was elected to the Bunker Hill Monument Association, he refused to join. In his letter to the association, he wrote, quote I have powerful national objections to the adoption of this project for the following reasons First, those who made this notable stand on this sanguinary hill have almost all passed to those shades where military honors are not more highly appreciated than they have been in the United States Secondly, the actors in this bloody scene, the Revolutionary War, after having performed their part in a manner perhaps unparalleled in ancient or modern history, were refused by the government the rewards that were so solemnly promised in the hour of the most critical danger And, while the government has found ways and means to satisfy all other legal and many illegal demands They still continue a deaf ear to the crying demands for justice claimed by the disbanded officer and soldier And now, sir, in room of giving them the bread that was solemnly promised, Debt is to be paid by a stone was not alone in these feelings During that period, when the monument stood half finished, it really became emblematic of the unpaid soldiers and the unfulfilled promises Today, in the exhibit in the Lodge at Bunker Hill, an abridged version of this quote endnding in the part about it being paid in a stone is juxtaposed with information about The King Solomon's Lodge monument and the building of the one that still stands today at Bunker Hill When they were built, both of these monuments were really criticized as being a big waste of money, especially given all of that about the veterans Another panel at the monument pairs a quote from Daniel Webster's eighteen forty three Dedication oration with one from a letter published in William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator That was published in eighteen forty six Webster's quote describes the monument as, quote, a memorial of the lastast and a monitor to the present and to all succeeding generations. The quote from the letter in the Liberator, written by GB. Stebs, is one of the ones ordered to be removed It reads, quote, As we drew near to Boston There stood Bunker Hill Monument. towering up towards the heavens as if in silent bitter mockery of the millions of slaves guarded by the professed lovers of Liberty who reared its lofty column This letter was written only three years after the monument was completed. for the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in the U.S. except in punishment for a crime. So within three years of the monument's completion, abolitionists were talking about the contrast between the Bunker Hill Monument as a monument to the freedom of the Revolution and the freedom that was denied to the nationss enslaved, which is reflected in this panel in the lodge Oother of the quotes to be removed from the monument was published in an Irish Catholic newspaper called The Pilot printed in Boston on may eighth, eighteen seventy five. This followed an address that George William Curtis had given on the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Lexington in Concord. Curtis had been an abolitionist and was a supporter of women's suffrage, and he also advocated for the rights of black and indigenous people. But he had anti Catholic and anti immigrant views. And in this address, he criticized the changes that he thought immigration was causing in the United States He said, quote, This enormous influx of foreigners has added an immense ignorance and entire unfamiliarity with Republican ideas and habits to the voting class. He claimed that newcomers to the US had no connection with the revolution or its ideals. This piece published in the pilot, which was published by the Archdiocese of Boston, was in response to this