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A 2015 New Orleans Times-Picayune article tells how New Orléans' Vieux Carré Commission recommended that four monuments be removed. Three of them honour
[...] Confederate generals P.G.T. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy [...]
The other monument
[...] was erected in 1891 to honor the 16 members of the White League who died during an insurrection against the integrated Reconstructionist government in Louisiana, which was based in New Orleans at the time.
Various news outlets are reporting that the latter monument, an obelisk, has been dismantled at the behest of the city government, and that the others are also set to be dismantled.
coverage:
- Washington Post
- The New Orleans Advocate
- WWL-TV (has statement from city government)
- ABC
- New York Magazine
- Newsweek
- The New Orleans Advocate
- Chicago Tribune
- Los Angeles Times
- Times-Picayune
- Reuters
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New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Thursday May 04 2017, @01:29AM
Actually, the Confederate government was in many ways far more tyrannical than Lincoln ever was. Even if you ignore the tyranny endured by the slaves throughout the war. For example, less than a year in all white men aged 18-35 were conscripted into the army, with the only ways out being owning 20 or more slaves or (later dropped) hiring a substitute, which makes the Vietnam draft lottery seem like a picnic by comparison. The Confederates also instituted new taxes that libertarian types would find outrageous, like the government claiming 10% of all agricultural products. The more the Union won, the more oppressive the Confederates got towards the areas still under their control as they desperately tried to find the resources to continue to fight.
Lincoln also introduced conscription and increased federal taxation, but later in the war and never on the scale that the Confederates did, because his military situation was never as desperate as the Confederacy.
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