Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-08-10
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SAN FRANoIsoo. Aug. lo-l IN.
Louisiana

' Louisiana Troubles.
Louisiana was early in the war made to
feel the effects Of the power OF the Fed
eral Government. In April, 1852, New
Orleans succumbed to the gallant Far
ragut, and the Stars and Stripes were
again hoisted on all its public buildings.
In 1854 an attempt wss made to establish
q State Government on the basis OF the
proclamation of President Lincoln OF the
9Th Of December, 1868. On the 18th Of
January following, Major General Banks,
then in command Of the Department OF
the Gull, issued a proclamation providing
for the election of State officers under the
old Constitution Of the State.
The polls were opened or the 22d OF
February, and resulted in the election Of
Michael Hahn to the Office Of Governor,
and J. Madison Wells Lieutenant Cover.
nor. The total vote was 1920, Of which
o majority was cast for Hahn and Wells.
That the position to which Mr.. Hahn had
been elected did not carry much authori-
ty with it is evident from the fact that
three weeks after his election he was in
vested by President Lincoln with the
functions Of Military Governor. until
further ORDERS" wrote our late President,
on the 10Th Of March, 1864, "you are
hereby invested with the powers exercised
hitherto by the Military Governor OF
louisiana"
On '.e 18th Of March, General Banks,
after q Governor Of the State had, so far
as outward forms were concerned, been
elected, issued an order for an election Of
Delegates to a Convention to revise the
Constitution. The election was held on
the 2Sth. The character of that election
is thus set forth in a report made to the
lower House Ct Congress on the applica-
ton Of certain persons, elected simulta-
neously with the Delegates in question, to
seats in that body:
From all that is known Of the ballot
ing, it appears that the parish OF Assem-
clon, within the Federal lines and neigh
boring to New Orleans, and which in
1860 had a white population of 3,94o,
elected her delegates by 81 votes; that
Palquemines, with a white population in
1860 OF $3.50, cast 246; and in the parish
Of Madison Montague wal elected BY q
vote Of 20. Elections were held in the
Parishes included 10 Federal lines, and
these lines were: The Teche on one side,
and the Antics on the other, comprehend
ing the parish or ;ity Of New Orleans.
and the ~neighboring parishes on the Mis-
;'ssippi. To a question ~propounded to
General Banks, as to what portion Of the
State voted, his reply was, AL AZ far up
as Point Coupee, and there were some
men from the Red river who voted at
Vidalie.'"
The body 90 elected assembled on the
7th Of April, 1864, and drafted a constitu.
ton, which, in the language of General
Banks, ordained instantaneous, univers-
"al, unc~ompenssted, unconditional eman-
" cipation Of slaves" and prohibited for
ever 1.-THE recognition Of property 10 man e."
1t was submitted to the people on the 9th
of September, with the following result /:
For the Constitution, $685. against il,
l,566-in q Sta'e with a white population
according to the census Of 1850, OF 1885,
629. The Legislature which subsequently
as embed elected Hahn to the Senate Of
the United States, and J. Madison Wells
then became Governor. He wal invested
with the functions Of Provisional Cover
nor by President Johnson, when the work
Of reconstructic was commenced.
It was the body elected in the manner
above set forth. which, after a sleep Of two
years, recently came togeth : for the
avowed purpose Of disfranchis:ng the re-
bells. Governor Wells informed the Pres
ident, under date of July 2Sth, that it was
re-convened, not by him, but by its Presi-
dent, BY virtue Of q resolution passed at
its first session, authorizing him to do so.
1t would seem, however, that the func.
tons Of a Convention oughtto cease when
the work for which 1t was embodied had
been performed-that is to say, the draft
ing Of a Constitution. II Constitutional
Convention Gun be re-convened after a
lapse Of two " rs, it can also be recon
vened afte; a lapse Of fifteen or twenty.
What would the people Of California say
if the gentlemen who framed the Consti-
tuition at Monterey, in lS49. should insist
upon coming together and making an
other for US now. by virtue Of their first
electionf
So far as the telegraph has informed US,
the Federal officers In the State of Louis
lana appear to DO very much divided in
opinion on the subject Of the Convention,
Il is, Of course. admitted on all sides that
the re. assembling OF the Convention was
the cause Of the riot. The only, question,
therefore, which has to be determined re-
lates to the right Of that body to come to-
pether again. General Baird, in COM
maud, immediately, Of Louisiana, evident
ly sympathized with the Convention.
General Phil Sheridan, in command Of the
Division, however, Is Of the opposite way
of thinking, for he telegraphed the Presi-
dent, on the let Of August, that "the Con-
vention wa composed Of political agita-
tors and revolutionary men )" that its &C.
ton was "l;able to produce a breach Of
the peace !" and that he had made up his
mind to arrest the head men, but could
do nothing till come overt act had been
committed.-S. FdkG-