New monument agreement needed in Edenton (NC)
New direction on monument
Edenton Town Council instructed the town manager and town attorney on Tuesday to draft a new memorandum of understanding with Chowan County on moving the town’s Confederate monument to the county-owned courthouse property.
According to the instructions, the new agreement to move the monument will not require approval from either the Sons of Confederate Veterans or the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the two groups that originally sued the town to block the monument’s movement from South Broad Street.
The original memorandum of understanding agreed to by Edenton and Chowan officials on Nov. 25 would have moved the Confederate monument to the courthouse property and awarded its ownership to the county within 30 days of the UDC and SCV signing a consent order dropping their lawsuit against the town. That move would have been followed by Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillett lifting the temporary injunction he imposed nearly two years ago, because of the lawsuit, on any monument move.
But the Sons of Confederate Veterans said in a statement that the group would not sign on to the current memorandum of understanding unless language were added granting the SCV “standing” in future lawsuits regarding the monument.
An attorney for the SCV characterized his client’s position as being offered in the spirit of compromise. The letter, addressed to town attorney Hood Ellis, indicated that the group was prepared to drop all objections to the monument’s move if language recognizing the SCV’s standing in future lawsuits was included in the current town-county agreement.
Tillett apparently drafted an order…
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