Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-09-15
From Correspondence of The World.l
.rsr New ORLEANS, Sept. g.
TILE LOUISIANA ELECTION.

... THE LOUISIANA ELECTION. o..
You are aware that an election is to be
held here on Monday, the 9TH, to decide on
the constitution presented to our people by
General Banks tools-called a convention
of the people of Louisiana. You are aware
that this body, composed of about eighty
men, not ten of whom ever had previously
any standing In the State-grog-sh keep
ers, policemen, jailors, junk dealers, and
men of infamous character, in the main,
have formed constitution, many of the
provisions of which are ridiculous novelties.
There was scarcely vote cast for its mem
bers outside of the city of New Orleans,
and the total vote throughout those parish
es, including the city, where any was taken,
was about four thousand
This constitution is to be the principal OBJ
ject of the election on Monday next. 1t is
Banks desire to recommend himself and
his master, Lincoln, to the people of the
North, by the adoption of this constitution
with its clauses for the emancipation of the
negro, and his education at the expense of
the white man, by, seemingly, a large vote
of the people. At the same time he will
have members elected to Congress from five
of the districts, though in two of them he
has hardly an outpost, and in one only gar
risons. He will also have legislature
chosen, which is to meet quite early, and
before the next meeting of Congress.
BANKS POLITICAL DESIGNS.
You will wonder why there was so early
and earnest a call for this legislature to
meet. 1t is because General Banks, seeing
no likelihood of his retrieving his position
before the people of Massachusetts,, where
his image has been supplanted by that of
| Butler, has determined to be elected Sena-
| tor from his creation in Louisiana. Who
will be his colleague, whether his man
Hahn, or some one else, is not known; but
it will be, of course, some one whom he can
use.
HOW THE VOTE IS TO BE "GoT UP"
Two of the principal provisions of this
constitution relate to the policemen and Ia
borers on the public works in this city. 1t
is supposed that there are now two thous-
| and under pay here. To secure their sup
| port, this constitution provides that the
| former shall hold their places during good
| behavior, though judges are to hold their
| offices only for limited time, and these
! policemen are to be paid salaries, exceeding
those of your supreme and district judges;
similar provisions are made for the laborers,
except as to term of place.
The votes of these interested parties are
secured of course. Then the quartermas-
| ter's department has in the ship yards and
elsewhere, about two thousand men. In
addition to this General Banks has ordered
furloughs to be given to. all soldiers who
may claim the right to vote to leave theil
| commands, and to go to the nearest poll to
enable them to do so. In this way a vote
may be got up of from over five to tel
thousand, just as Banks may desire, more o.
less soldiers to 'pitch in"
HOW 'FREE ELECTION" IS "oRDERED.'
| So 70 thn Pr,
tion, though Mr.. Abel, member of the
| convention from the lower part of the city
who opposed its adoption, is running fol
Congress and speaking against it; but as nc
| one is allowed to support him, it is clearly
an understood thing. Beside, Abel and
Banks are personally quite intimate. No
one else has dared to say anything against
the constitution or the candidates. There
is some show of opposition among these,
but the opposition is altogether Pickwick-
ian.
Some time ago The Times, of this city,
was exceedingly outspoken and earnest
against this constitution and its authors. 1t
defied the convention; it spat upon it. 1t
arraigned the members for their enormous
drains on the treasury, for their 100000 eX-
penditure for brandy and whisky, for their
100000 subsidy to the press, for their $40
and $50 day to themselves and their
officers, and for the ridiculous vacuity and
mendacity of their drunken speeches. Now
The Times is dumb to all this.
BANKS NEW BASE OF POWER.
The cause is that Banks, finding that un-
der Candy his power was defied, sent Hahn,
his G Governor" to Lincoln, and the latter,
warned that unless Banks or Hahn could
have unlimited power over all the civilians
in this department, he could not use the
name and vote Of Louisiana in the next elec-
ton, has given Banks renewedly the power
of life and death over his prostrate subjects
here.
You can Judge of the progress of despo-
tism in this country, which realizes now the
decline and fall of Rome, when tell you
that this outspoken Times had in its col
umns the other day an editorial leader,
"pledging its conductors TO cote for and support
the consitutioni" OF course, much on the
same plan with the opposition Of Abel and
the rival candidates elsewhere, The Times
was made to say that there were some small
particulars of which it did not approve but
on the whole they would support it., The
Times had previously pronounced the whole
fraud, cheat and a disgrace, and its pro-
prietors have taken no part in the nomi-
nations"
BANKS AS AN "EDrToR."
1t is well known here that this article
was written by Major General Banks, and
sent to The Times to be published, nolens DO
lens, by that paper. Nor is this the only
instance. All the other papers have had ar.
ticles from the same prolific pen, whose pc
culiar imitation we have all learned to recog-'
nize. In particular, The Picayune has more
than once been used as Gen. Banks medi-
um by which to take in the people. You
know that some time ago The Picdy,,ne was
stopped by General Banks, and was, after a
couple months suspension, permitted to re-
sumo upon the condition that it should
"support the Government"-that is, him
self and Lincoln. Two or three times lately
there have appeared in that paper articles
which no other person than Banks could
possibly have written. His vanity and au-
dacity creep out Enthusiastically.
Ihave Just seen The Picdyune this morn
ing. 1t contains another leader of Banks,
in which he promises avote of II, 900 for
the ~Constitution." Hescould have 100000
if he chose, though there were only $4,000
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