Lee Circle no more: New Orleans to remove 4 Confederate statues

Times Picayune ^ | December 17, 2015 | Richard Rainey

[yoe]

Lee Circle will lose the statue of its namesake after the New Orleans City Council voted 6-1 Thursday (Dec. 17) to remove four monuments related to the Confederacy from their prominent perches around the city.

Besides Gen. Robert E. Lee, statues of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard at the entrance of City Park and Confederate president Jefferson Davis in Mid-City and the obelisk dedicated to the Battle of Liberty Place at the foot of Iberville Street will all come down.

[yoe]

Who are the stupid people who want to bury the history of this nation? Mayor Mitch Landrieu is so wrong in his history, he should be ashamed for pandering also; the real history of slavery and the South is available .....it was A War of Northern Aggression, all Europe knew about the heavy tariffs imposed on the South....in Lincoln's inaugural address he expressed "a firm determination to enforce the fugitive slave law and to support a new Constitutional amendment to protect slavery in any state, denying Congress the right to interfere with slavery."

Looking for some way to keep Northerners to keep on fighting, slavery became the raisons d'être with Northerners delighted not to take the blame any longer for the unpopular/unjust war.

[BenLurkin]

They might as well put up a statue of Ben Butler while they’re at it.

[ought-six]

The hated Benjamin “The Beast” Butler.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The state legislature needs to step in here and rein in this PC whitewash of history. Utterly outrageous.

[Buckeye McFrog]

It’s a shame. Though on the losing side Robert E. Lee had much to be admired in his character.

[miserare]

Lincoln’s obstinacy and wrongheadedness cost the nation 640,000 lives.

We are still feeling the effects financially of Emancipation.

It was a grand mess all around.

Let the descendants of the valiant on both sides keep their monuments!

[shalom aleichem]

Where in Hell is Jindal?

[Vigilanteman]

I do hope a nearby town moves in and claims the statues. They can even poach some of the tourist trade.

And next time their levees fail, let them get help only from the PC crowd.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I wonder when they’ll be changing the name of Fort Hood. We definately don’t want to “offend” anybody. They might want to go off on Americans.

[Timpanagos1]

Where is it illegal to sell a Confederate flag?

[VanShuyten]

Yup. I hope they don’t forget to pull down that statue of Indian-killer Jackson in the French Quarter.

And speaking of the French, there’s probably lots of places and streets named after Frenchmen of dubious quality.

[The Toll]

Now all that’s left is Crack.

[iowamark]

You should put your personal comments in the comment section.

The opening lines that you posted:

“”Who are the stupid people who want to bury the history of this nation? Mayor Mitch Landrieu is so wrong about the history of the South.....it was A War of Northern Aggression, all Europe knew about the heavy tariffs imposed on the South....””

are NOT part of the article.

[DoodleDawg]

.....it was A War of Northern Aggression, all Europe knew about the heavy tariffs imposed on the South....

OK so this whole farce about removing the Confederate statues is ridiculous. But tossing in nonsense like that does your cause no good.

[elpadre]

start a campaign to have Southerners boycott New Orleans

[fieldmarshaldj]

Leaving office shortly. He’s been replaced by a leftist Democrat crook named Edwards.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Mistake to do this—its like blackmail—they will not be OKbwith this and want more and more. Only MLK will be made as a statue. Next the Civil War battlefield ripped up for poor people’s housing and confederate grave dug up and burned. All the states will have to change their names—No more Virginia— Tubman etc...

[Walrus]

I think it’s time to take down every “Martin Luther King Blvd” road sign in America.

[iowamark]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Liberty_Place
“The Battle of Liberty Place was an attempted insurrection by the Crescent City White League against the legal Reconstruction state government on September 14, 1874, in New Orleans, where it was then based. Five thousand members of the White League, a paramilitary organization of the Democratic Party, made up largely of Confederate veterans, fought against the outnumbered Metropolitan Police and state militia. The insurgents held the statehouse, armory, and downtown for three days, retreating before arrival of Federal troops that restored the elected government. No insurgents were charged in the action. This was the last major event of violence stemming from the disputed 1872 gubernatorial election. Both the Democrat John McEnery and Republican William Pitt Kellogg claimed victory; the U.S. government supported Kellogg...

In 1891, the city erected a monument to commemorate and praise the insurrection from the Democratic Party point of view, which at the time was in firm political control of the city and state and was in the process of disenfranchising most blacks. The white marble obelisk was placed at a prominent location on Canal Street. In 1932, the city added an inscription that expressed a white supremacist view.”

[SandRat]

PC whitewashers of history.

Stupid is as Stupid Does.