Earl of Dufferin 'Tis Christmas Day! To one another I hear men say— Alas! my brother! Its wind blows bitter, Our Christmas suns No longer glitter As former ones!— If this be so, Then let us borrow From long ago Surcease of sorrow;— Let dead Yules lend Their bright reflections, Let fond friends blend Their recollections;— Let Love revive Joy's ashen embers, For Love is Life Since love remembers. 'Pro Aris et Focis' The motto Pro Aris Et Focis translates from Latin as "For Altars and Hearths". The motto has been used for centuries mostly by military organizations, and is often transliterated in myth as "for God and Country". ("Pro Deo et Patria" is an equally ancient and more common Latin motto directly translated as "For God and Country".) In the context of Lost Cause mythology, "For Altars and Hearths" is intended to place within the public memory the falsehood that the Confederacy did not fight in the American Civil War principally for the preservation of chattel slavery. One historian argued that similar monuments erected by the UDC are pieces of a far wider national effort by the UDC and others, decades after the surrender of the confederacy, to insert the false Lost Cause Narrative into the public memory, announce to nonwhites the final defeat of Reconstruction, and to support white supremacy. Many others have written that UDC Monuments were erected to primarily Memorialize the loss of a third of a million Southern men in the Civil War--a loss greater than any other war fought by Americans since the nation began. Monuments in recent years have been misconstrued in much different times to promote racism which was not intended at their creation. Siting and context The monument was erected in 1924 at the northmost end of the grassy median within the 100 block of South Third Street, at its intersection with Dock Street. The intersection is one block south of the historic crossroads of the city at Third Street and Market Street. For decades, the monument marked the northern entrance to an elite neighborhood—one built, beginning in the mid-18th century, by the city's wealthiest and most powerful whites. The nearest home, at 100 South Third Street, was the Elizabeth Bridgers House, a 15,000 square foot mansion constructed in 1905 for the widowed daughter-in-law of Confederate politician Robert Rufus Bridgers. Damage, dismantling and removal 1954 A motor vehicle knocked the memorial