More Confederate statues have been taken down in the middle of the night — and this time it was in Memphis, Tennessee.

The two statues were tributes to Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.

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While there’s been a growing trend by cities to remove Confederate statues without any votes by the public, the recent move by the city of Memphis is controversial, as the city council apparently took advantage of a legal loophole to do it.

The parks were turned into private property — so they were able to be sold by the mayor in a move that allowed the entire process to skip the typical dealings with the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act, passed in 2013 and amended in 2016. The act prohibits the removal or relocation of monuments on public land.

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After the bureaucratic maneuvering, the statues were removed late Wednesday night.

The move is one “The Ingraham Angle” exposed on Fox News Thursday night. EWTN managing editor and best-selling author Raymond Arroyo said on the program that he bets “we’re going to see [this move] repeated.”

Of the shady tactics undertaken to remove the historic statues, he told host Laura Ingraham, “They don’t want it [the decision] going to the popular vote of the people.”

So this was apparently something that needed to be done “under the cover of darkness,” noted Ingraham — for fear of public backlash.

Arroyo said the removal of such monuments should be left up to the people of a city rather than to the politicians. “Let the people decide,” he said.

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Removing these monuments, especially in such secretive ways, deprives America’s children most of all, Arroyo said.

“Our children should be entitled to the bright spots and the dark spots of history,” he said.

(photo credit, homepage image: Grave of Nathan Bedford Forrest, CC BY 3.0, by Thomas R Machnitzki; photo credit, article image: Jefferson Davis Statue, CC BY 3.0, by Thomas R Machnitzki)