Biff_Poindexter
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Battle of Liberty Place - 64 Parishes
The Battle of Liberty Place, September 14, 1874, effectively brought an end of Reconstruction policies in Louisiana.
64parishes.org
"The origins of the Battle at Liberty Place lay in Louisiana’s troubled gubernatorial election of 1872, which pitted Democratic-Conservative “Fusion” candidates John McEnery and Davidson Bradfute Penn against a Republican ticket headed by US senator William Pitt Kellogg and Caesar Carpentier Antoine. Widespread fraud [claims] made an accurate tally of votes impossible and, as a consequence, the Republicans moved to have the matter settled in federal court, where a judge decided in their favor. While Kellogg may have actually polled the greatest number of votes, his means of victory smacked of federal tyranny to white Louisianans -- that and Kellogg’s political base being almost entirely black amplified this outrage and unified a previously divided white electorate.
As 1874 began, Kellogg’s Republicans selectively championed the enforcement of civil rights legislation, a move that may have energized black electoral support but also cost the party many of its remaining white allies because such legislation fed white fears of “Negro domination.” Using a sophisticated campaign of propaganda that targeted the emotional and financial anxieties of the city’s residents, the White League first called for volunteers on July 5, 1874 -- On September 14, 1874, the White League attacked the Republican Metropolitan Police for control of the city and to put an end to Reconstruction in Louisiana. Although the White League forcibly deposed Governor William Pitt Kellogg, its victory proved short-lived. President Ulysses S. Grant ordered the army to reinstate Kellogg three days later. Quickly dubbed “The Battle of Liberty Place” by the White League and its supporters, the clash marked a crucial turning point in the balance of power during Reconstruction in Louisiana."
In New Orleans, not far from Harrah’s Casino, there was a white obelisk shaped monument that had the inscription “In honor of those Americans on both sides of the conflict who died in the Battle of Liberty Place. A conflict of the past that should teach us lessons for the future.”
Hmmm...the past should teach us lessons for the future? Sounds like some Marxist-critical race 1619 gay agenda commie crap to me....I guess they are going to try to claim that just because a bunch of racist Democrats from over 100 years ago were using the same tactics, rhetoric and propoganda some of us brave Christian patriots are using now; that is supposed to mean something??
No one since that democrat racist attack happened would try to revise or glorify it or treat that monument as way to honor those racist Democrats...nobody later used that monument as s commemoration white supremacy while they went and murdered 11 Italian-American immigrants...you know, back when they were dehumanizing Italian immigrants and calling them criminals..and I am sure nobody later added this to that monument....
“McEnery and Penn having been elected governor and lieutenant-governor by the white people were duly installed by this overthrow of carpetbag government, ousting the usurpers, Governor Kellogg (white) and Lieutenant-Governor Antoine (colored). United States troops took over the state government and reinstated the usurpers but the national election of November 1876 recognized white supremacy in the South and gave us our state.”
And if that was written on that monument, it was probably back in the 1800's -- and even if it was really added in the 1930's -- the conservatives in that city fought real hard to remove that racist monument over 100 years later. You would have to be pretty racist and depraved to try to claim that monument honors your heritage and stuff...
