The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-08-09
The First New Orleans MOb--Its
Character.


The Convention" which had no legal
existence Whatever, when II met In New
Orleans, assembled there for revolution
airy purpose. II was body Of desperate
creatures, thus described by New Orleans
correspondent OF the Cincinnati Gdsotte'
Tho Convention Of 1864 elected under
the Banks regime was always shabby
body. Without man of commanding
ability, or many excepting mere pot-house
politicians, we have since seen that u was
not without leaders lacking principle as
much as they lacked respectability. II re-
fused 10 ordain the negro suffrage, for
which II is now 80 anxious, betrayed the
true Union men, like Durant and Flanders,
gave itself over 10 shameless stealipgs aud
corruptions. Furthermore. It's work was
long ago accomplished, It's adjournment
was. by members and public alike, consid-
cred final lis President could not be in
duccd to call IL together again. and the best
lawyers aud trnest men of the Radical
party in New Orleans secuted the posslbil-
ity of It's now rcsuming legal existence"
This was the character of the gang cali
ing themselves Convention IL was an
unlawful assemblagc-a mob, which acted
like a mob, stirred up u counter-mob and
was just simply cleaned out as mob by a
mob. A III pet however, for the tender
sympathies of law-abidng Northern Black
Radicalism.
While we are on the subject, however, of
the legality and the character of this body,
which, as one mob, was demolished and
scattered by another, let us give what was
said of It In the u. 5. Senate, when there
was application tmadc by the Louisiana
Senators and Representatives for seats In
the ensuing Congress. The applicants were
contemptuously rejected. The Radical
leaders aud their newspaper organ gave
the Convention OF 1864 no quarter. One or
two specimens to Illustrate their venomous
tone, we give. In the debate in the Senate,
Mr.. SUMNER said:
Mr. President, remember last summer
that good fortune threw me in the path of
a distinguished gentleman just returned
from Louisiana. | think he had been pres
cnt at the sittiugs of the Convention; Mt
any rate he had been mt New Orleans Mt
the time in the discharge of important pub
lie duties. In reply TO an inquiry In regard
to that Convention, he said compendiously
that it was nothing but a stupcndOus hoax
yes, sir, nothing but q stupendOus hoax,
The pretended State Government OF
Louisiana is utterly mdcfensible, whether
you look at its origin or its character. To
describe it must use plain language. Ii is
mere seven months abortion, bcgOttcn by
the bayonet in criminal conjunction with
the spirit of caste, and born before its time,
rickctty, uniformed, unfinished
In the same debate, Mr.. WADE said:
Sir. have heard great deal about this
pretended election in Louisiana, which did
not come from Major-general Banks, and
pronounce the proceeding mockcry. 1t
is not pretended that there could be drum
med up from the riil'raff OF New Orleans
and sent into the vicinity, under the man
date of a Major-goneral, more than six
thousand votes, where over fifty thousand
were formerly polled.
Mr.. GRIMES and other Radicals spoke in
the same strain, and, at the conclusion of
the debate, the Louisiana Convention and
its work were condemned by the decisive
vote of 80 to II. In the House it was as
sailed by THAD. STEVENS, WINTER DAVIS,
and their followers, with equal vigor and
ferocity, and met the same fate ut the hands
of the Radicals.