New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-23

| The Convention met pursuant to adjournment
Hon. A. Mouton, President, in the chair, and
seventy-six delegates in attendance.
| The journal of yesterday was read and approved,
Mr.. Lewis, of Claiborne, moved to suspend the
rules and take up for consideration the "Constitu-
ton of the Confederate States of America" unani-
mously adopted at Montgomery, Ala March 18th,
1861, which was carried.
Mr.. O'Bryan presented tho following ordinance,
| viz:
AN oRpNANcs p5eyai7g f the Approval and ratification
| BE ii ordained By The People Of the sovereign
State Of Louisiana, IN Conue1t{o7a assembled, and
ii is hereby ordained, That we do approve and
ratify the Constitution framed and adopted at
Montgomery, on the 18th day of March, A. D.
1861, by the delegates from the States of Louis
lana, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, South Caro-
lima, Florida and Texas, in Convention assembled,
which is known and recognized as the Constitution
| Of the Confederate States Of America.
Mr.. Heron withdrew the motion heretofore
made by him to adopt the Constitution as a
whole.
And Mr.. Rozier presented the following as a
substitute for the ordinance submitted by Mr..
O'Bryan, viz
AN ORDINANCE to provide for the calling of Convention
the of the people Of the State Of Louisiana rea
Of the G"nfeatFse stas q Aes, ndo,od y he ~ %"
FITS Of the % sso of ar AmSr@ M1ea T. o
renti0n assembled Do declare and ordain, and it is
hereby declared and ordained, as follows:
SECTION l. That, Immediately after the passage
of this ordinance it shall be the duty of the Cover
nor to issue proclamation to the sheritfs of the
several parishes, directing said sheritfs to issue
wrts of elections of delegates to State Conven-
ton; said election to be held and shall be con-
Quoted in the same manner as is now provided by
law for the election of members of the General AS
| sembly.
SEC O. That the several parishes and represen-
tative districts shall be entitled to the same num-
Der of delegates to said Convention as the several
parishes and representative districts entitled to
| members of the House of Representatives of the
State and the several Senatorial districts shall be
entitled to the same number OF delegates as they
are entitled to Senators in the State Senate
SEC. 3. All persons qualified to vote for members
of the General Assembly, under existing laws and
under existing ordinances of this Convention, shall
be entitled to vote for delegates to said Conven
ton.
SEC. 4. That each voter shall designate on his
ballot the name or names of persons voted for as
delegates for the Senatorial districts, and those
voted as delegates for the Parish or REPRESENTING
districts, as the case may be. The return OF cleo
ton shall be made in the same manner and form
and within the same time, as tor members OF TIL
General Assembly.
SEC. 8. That the delegates to SAD ConVeh.lot
shall meet at Baton Rouge, in the hall OF tn
House of Representatives, on the first Monday II
May, 1861, at II O'Clock NJ.
| SEC. G. That in case any person elected to salt
| convention
be ordered by the Governor to fill the vacancy, il
the same manner and in the same time as IS pro
vided by law for filing vacancies in the Genera
Assembly.
SEC. T. That the delegates to said Convention
shall receive the same mileage and per diem com
pensation to which members Of the General AS
sembly are now entitled.
SECS That the sum of SIS 900 twenty-five thous
and dollars) be and the same is hereby appropriate
out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwis
appropriated to pay for mileage and per diem
compensation of delegates and contingent eXpen
ses OF said Convention, and the same shall be pal
by the Treasurer on the warrant OF the presldlh
officer of the Convention.
SEC O. That the said Convention to be held b
and in virtue of this ordinance shall have full poWe
to adopt or reject said Constitution of the Contcc
crate States of America heretofore referred to, Q
to take such further action relative to said subjec
matter as they may deem proper and necessary
Mr.. Marks, of Caddo, moved to lay the suost
tute offered by Mr.. Rozier on the table, and M
@ Rozier demanded the yeas and nays thereon, wit
s the following result, viz
q Yeas: Messrs. Adams Barrow, Bermudez, BOZ
n ford, Bonner, Briscoe, Burton, Bush, Butler CAL
we'll Cook, Conner of ConCOrdin, Conner OF
% Tammanv, Davidson of Sabine, DeBanc, Dorse
" DuprG Elgee Estn Fuselier, Fuqua, Ga1de
10 GLADDEN., Gill, Girard, Graves, Gray, Griffin, lie
= nandez, Heron, Hodge, Hodges, HollingsWort
! Johnston, Kennedy, Kidd, Labatut, Lawrence, l.
} groue LeBOurgeois, Lewis Of Bienyille Lewis
' Claiborne, Manning, Marshall, Marrero Marks
Caddo, Marks of Orleans, Martin of Assumpto
:, Martin of Carroll, Magee, McCloskcy, McNeel
q Melancon, Miles, Miller Moore, Norton, o Brya
Perkins of Lafourche, Perkins of Orleans, PerkiI
of Madison, Peck, Pcmberton, Pike, Poke, Pr
vosty, Pugh Richardson, Scott of Claiborne SEQ
of Fast Feciana, Semmcs, SlawS0n Smith, Smar
Y Sompayrac, Sparrow, Stewart, SwayHe, Tappa
Talbot Taylor of st Charles, Taylor of St l,andr
i TeXadn, Todd, Towles Tucker Valentine, Neuc
Warren, Walker, Williams of St. Helena, Wiki
, son, Wilt and York--94.
- Nays: Mcssrs. Bienvenu, Connolly, Dufel, Ga
rett, Lewis Of Orleans, Meredith (oselius, Rozic
!" Stocker and Taafero~-l0.
n Yeas, "a; nays, 10.
;, Consequently the said substitute was laid on Il
table.
Mr. Rozier presented the following as an amen
ment to the ordinance offered by Mr.. O'Bryan,
be added to said ordinance
IND it's hercby solru1t1y declared and or1anc
That the true meaning and Interpretation Of Il
ordinance of ratification is, and shall be, constru
as follows:
Whereas, a free State cannot be too Jealous
guarding its fundamental rights; and whereas, ma
citizens of Louisiana had grave doubts wheih
separate secession was peAcehble, constitution
remedy for their grievances i'll the late Union al
- whereas those doubts arose from the silence npt
4 that subject both of the Constitution Of the U nit
Stntes OF America and of the act by which u
State of Louisiana gave in her adhesion thereto
ana whereas the Constitution of the Confedern
i. States of America appears in this, as in most It
H. pects to have been modelled after this CONSTITUTE
~ Of the United States: now, therefore, to prove
Ut MISUNDERSTANDING, and to secure harmony tnn
Nisftt9ihrr Ortiun~l tie People Of LOuiSjd
in NJ1lDcjtiOn aSscnlblpI That in adopting the CO
I 4tituion of the Confederate States of America, I
sovereign State of Louisiana docs expressly rcscr
to herself the right, pcaGonbIy to Withdraw ire
u the Unirn created by that Constitution, whcncv
On in the Judgment of her citizens, her paramount
tercst may require it,
- Mr. Marks, Of Orleans moved to lay the 81
'' amendment of Mr.. Rozicr Oh the table
Mr. Rozcr called for the yeas and rays, viii
resulted as follows, viz
Yeas: McasrP. Adams, Barrow, Bcrn1udoz, Be
ner, Bonford Briscoe, Burton, Bush Butler, Ca
well, Cook, Conner of EUncordia, Conner Of
Tanmany Davidson Of Sabine Do}lanc, Dors
DuprG, Elgec, EstIin, Fuscier, FuQua, Gaud
GLADDEN., Gill, Girard Graves, Gray GriIln, II
nandez, Heron, Hodge, Hodges, IloIlingswor
- johnson, Kennedy, Kidd Labalut, Lawrence,
q gr0uc, I.cIIourgeois, Lewis of Bicnve, Lewis
Claiborne, Manning, Marshall, Marrero, Marks
q Orleans, Marks of Caddo, Martin of Carroll, Mag
ut McCloskcy, McNeey, Meredith, Miller, Mort
IT; O'Eryan Patterson, Perkins Of Laourche, Pork