The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1865-08-23
The State Government.

will ever acome." Now, we all hap-lr
pen to know exactly what to do on :
election day, and can get along pret-It,
ty we'll without any advice on the !
subject, butthe all absorbing question
which we want answered, and whiehfl
we should be obliged to the South or
TO any one else in the secret, to an i
swer, is, when shall we be allowed
to exercise the right of citizens and
elect civil officers for the government i
of the State? II
We have never yet met an indiyid /,
'ual who is able 10 inform US what
kind of a government It is under /
which we live. Is it civil govern
|ment? Did the small squad OF sore
heads and imbeciles who met in[
Convention in New Orleans and made
I = z u
o Constitution, whose work has besm
denounced and ridiculed time And
again by their best friends put the
machinery Of the State government
Into complete order aud restore the
State to the position and rights It had
before the WARP If SO, good or bad,
we accept their labors ard will tryl
Ito live under them the best we can
! until the wisdom of the State can be
i called regularly together and amend
7lor abolish the work Of their filthy
hands. But if we have civil gov.
eminent WHY'S there a military force
! in our midst, whose authorities ayow
= that the deliberations OF the civil
! tribunals, even those of the. Supreme
5 Court, are subject to revisal and re-
n versal by the military What sort
: Of a government (Which ought to be
stsupreme) would you call that which
: is subject to still higher authority '
= If, on the other hand. the civil fnnc'
J lions Of our executive are ignored,
at and he is recognized as provision
.Ealn governor why are not the same
Isteps taken to bring US back into the
n Union as inthe other States which
" have provisional governors7 WI.
os is not 4 Convention called to form
= State Constitution as in the case 9
!. The other States? Conventions h ia l
been called in all the other States -
an early day, and in Mississippi tn
We Convention is actually in session
re- South Carolina, which we are told !
oiilthe most Unreasonable naof all tn
Y Suites, viii soon have a Constitution
while Louisiana, which is said to 2
,ye.sI the most loyal has her claims y. ft
admission into the Ur;on postpone
to some indefinite period.
ms Ia correspondent in to-day's pap
tel seems to intimate that there is alre
ub- (dy d sufficiency Of government in u
ant State, and suggests that # one sllou y
commit murder he would soon tind
out. Now, as Sam Weller would aI sa
rus . that's just ha" If q naa comal
" murder, or any other crime, no in
per the two rival governments pullll
toEhim by the coat sleeve, and threate
ofIing 70 tear him in pieces, not tor 7
purpose Of bringing him to justl'
but each one for the purpose OF 8
: ting up It's claim for the honor '''
,'ns bringing him to trial We have e.
' ofh- our mind an instance Of q crlm lI
as being recently indicted in a neiglib
IAN a ing parish before civil tribunal =
before trial he was taken outof
o'-Icustody Of the Court BY a oecc
d gjlIIieutenant in the army who CLAIM
jurisdiction over him as provost q
otsbal, We have before Us another
ture stance Of the military interfering
prevent the seizure and sale 9
mortgaged plantation on the lgro'
cans that it was contrary to a general
q we der fromthe Department Gomman'
ides So that between the two, 1t wo
seem that we have governn
enough; but we may be permitte'
uam remark that in this instance, as in
ohp ~ totliers, " too many cooks spoil
ding BROTH that while the two gov
days Iments are fighting each other for
Of it, supremacy the criminal generally
capes. Forinstance, though we !
d civil government in this parish,