The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-11

properly pertaining TO the courts to decide.
Senators and Representatives in Congress Of
great learning. and men of high legal attain
rnents Ia New Orleans have expressed the
opinion that under the resolution of adjourn
ment, the Convention could lawfully reassem
| BILE. a distinguished Democratic Senator IN
Congress took the same visw. For myself, if
/ had any doubt on the subject, which have
not, should have deferred to the opinion OF
ADLER men. The total number OF delegates
composing the Convention was $50. The
number elected seventy-two, the quorum. Is
| fixed oil seventy-six, this number being a ma
jority oftbe whole. There we're twenty seven
parishes unrepresented m the Convention,
entitled to hfty-one delegates, and adding
thereto ten vacancies to be filed. would make
sixty-one delegates TO be elected. Besides,
there were some ten or twelve delegates who,
disappearing the emancipation clause, refus-
ed TO sign the Constitution, who mNg rank
with the extreme Conservatives- Counting
the sixty.onc delegates to be OF the same
class, and the balance of the Convention to
be radical, il will be seen that the parties
would have been really equally divided.
| have gone into these details to show the
/ faisity Of the charges that have
| been often made, that The Convention
wonld not have represented he wh0le, and
that ii tcGs intended to be packed. Every par
ish would have been represented, about one
half having elected their delegates in 1854,
and the other haifin 1866, making just eqai-
lihriums those who opposed and those who
sustained the cause Of the Confederaey.
There are DISTINGUISHING clauses in the Con-
stitution Of ls64 The MUCH abused mem
berS Of that body had ii in their power to
have made the Constitution as stringent as
against these engaged ID the rebellion as
Tennessee and Missouri have done. They
pursued an opposite eourse. believing and
| trusting. as ] did. that these men woIid be
actuated by spirit of tolerance, and forbear-
ance in return for the liberality shown to-
ward them. How the members of that Com
ventIon have been treated individually by the
very men IN whose honor and good faith they
/ trusted. to say nothing of the scorn and vlili-
I lcation Eliminated against them rs = collec-
tive body. and the constitution they made,
/ lei the record of the bloody doIngs al the Me
chanics' Insti;nte on Monday answer. In
kee ping W VI Cher unrsiensise policy to main
tain the power OF the State in their own hands
Exclusively, they opposed the meeting Of the
] Consenlon of 1864. They needed no better
monitor than their own conscience 10 tell
hhem that BY their own proscripiive eondnc;
fthey had forfeited all claim to further liberty
] from the original members thai Convention.
They resolved Il must be pat down. crushed
faut 81 all risks. The terrible scenes OF the
sOth OF July. confidently predicted, in case
ttne Convention met was The result. he tel
/ ter OF Mayor Monroe 70 ten. Bard, accom-
panyipg this communication, is proof that II
was the determination. if every other means
failed h resprt to force. Everything vas ar
ranged on sunday preparatory 70 that par
pose. ! ne police received orders, and on
Nondsy they we're IN large numbers at the
lcorner oil Canal and Dryades streets each
having one or more revolvers on his person.
/ Why were they there except to commit vio-
lenee Among all that has been passed
charged against the speakers a, the fridsy
night meeting, they conceded nothing more
than that the blacks should come around TO
defend the committee IN case the members
we're attacked.
! Admitting they had assembled for that pur.
pose, what occasion was there for alarm. UNI
less II was meiilated 10 assault the Gonv-n
ton The inference Is irresistible. from the
masslng or the police alone. that il was de
ncned to break UP the Convention bg force.
Tor this pnrsose a beginning was necessary
and an opportunity sought Tor. This sooa
occurred ~ the arrival OF procession at
piacas Hi1h rauslc- ON their nav 10 the
piac4 Of meeting Of the iCpnyention. winch
procession mad entered THE street through the
crowd 81 potiasuaen III the corner OF Canal.
1 ard were met with insults and Jeers, which
brought Ga d collision. q shot fred,
bI: ended ii nothing seflaas. The next ac:
/ oi violence vas the arrest of eolored man
/ bv q policeman in front Of the Institute. but
/ tor wBat ofieuea ! uaabic to say. The
crowd u eolored persons assembled naturally
became excited 2, LIS occurrence, the same
as & body q, white iaeu world 90 uase- Use
same aastances. Some teok the side %
the policemen others tbs ssaa 81 the Pm
soneg. Brics-a ats wez4 thrown and q
shot fired. the testimony gong Il show
taas :. was Gane IL che o. he
coiere1 Iuea This =as ansFTered immediately
By Several shots from the crowd 81 llIeeTen
! a. tn ceraer, aaa followed Up b rapid ar.
/ Ing On ihp ac&s- vito t-tnrned the ire a.
taSt as taey could, bu, icing -nserpowerea
snJ driven from the stsett, took shelter il
Aechaaies institute. If Rhe object Of the
! police was slmply to preserve the pgblsc
4 peace, Why $50 JheY MOI t:ser liz :asa ha-
trxen Yefa-s IL he Institute, retre @ her
o-istfal position a. the G Faer 81 the stree.
I winch elfectuAilx cut Of egress from the front,
/ and placing a guard to watch ire rear 1f The
I building, await the arrival Of the military
who weEe known g. ue vi the war. her
ens5 reason faf this eorrse rs thai 1t did net
! srs. tha5r rtlrt3oSeS bsty aefrry. F-gty adj
xanese IS IN. frort az tie, hn;fki,ap. had he
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