New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-03
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3. Is6l

at other places, and give the general an oppor-
tunity of proclaiming stringent martial law after
| all danger was over.
tbs my duty to place before you the fact that
on the appointment of Major General Kautz as
| military governor-in other words, military
mayor-the mayor and all the city officers in the
City Hail. as well as the chief of police, were re-
quired to report to the new fUnctionary.
This positively refused to do; continuing to
exercise the duties of the mayoralty to the best
Of my ability under circumstances necessarily
| detrimental to public business.
| Many of the city officials refused, in common
With myself to obey this eeStraordinary order
Soon after the return from Texas Of Major Gen.
Sheridan, commanding the military division Of the
gulf, the City Hall was restored to the jurisdic-
ton Of the city authorities and the police turned
| over to the mayor. .lE
1t was reserved for Gen. Baird to place mill
tary governor in the City Hall; to guard the en-
trance thereto with armed sentry; to unlock the
cells Of the prisons where mob Iingleaders, black
and white, were nCarcerated, and let them loose
upon the city, without hope of Identification, in
many instances, by the officers Of the civil law;
and to make political capital for radical enemies
of the reconstruction policy Of the President, his
| commander-inchief, by an attempt to wiring from
the police who peried their lives to restore order,
their hard earned aurels, and to cast upon the
city authorities the odium of reckless disregard
of the lives of loyal Union citizens"
| The peace proclamation of the 29th in which
counselled the good citizens Of the city refrain
| from assembling in or about Mechanics Institute
on the Both, thus permitting the members of the
convention to assemble and indulge Gen. Baird's
idea of "harmless pleasantly" the incontr0-
Vertible evidence that the radicals the assail-
ants, and that the police acted with far more dis
cretion than is usual with men under fire, and that
every effort was made by me to secure timely
| military assistance, or to assist the military if
present-all conspre to teach us how misrepre-
| sentation and fabrication often temporarily
| snpplant the truth in time of great political eX-
citement, in distant quarters of the country.
OUR POLITICAL RELATIONS.
| On becoming once more an integral part of the
| federal Union, our people anxiousLy looked for
ward to the time when they should be represented
in Congress. ~
These hopes, based upon the plghted faith
| of gallant and honorable men, have not been
realized.
The founders of the government went to war
upon preamble foreshadowing taxation without
representation.
In adopting the federal Constitution the States
made proclamation to the world that taxation and
| representation should go hand in hand.
Radical demagogues, ignoring the history of the
past and the rights of the States under our Magma
Charta argued at one time that the Southern
States could not sever their connection with the
Union, and now that these States have forfeited
all representative rights are, therefore, but
incipen territories, subject to the will and power
/ Of a Congress composed alone of members
elected from loyal consttuencies.n These
Ostracsed States are. nevertheless, according to
radical logic, competent to concur in constitu-
uonal amendment, although unrepresented on the
floor of Congress
That patient endurance and fidelity to pligbted
honor under trying circumstances, daily eXempli-
fed in the conduct Of the people of the Southern
States, eXtort the admiration Of all men save
radical place hunters, "held together by She CO.
hesive PoEer Of public plunder'
y, On the subversion of the late COntederaCy, sol
der and civilian took the oath of allegiance to the
government of the United States. acquiesced in
the changes which resulted from the war, and re.
II
I feigned cheerfuness.
President johnson sagaciously understanding
the impulses Of a gallant and unfortunate people
adhering to the States rights doctrines of the
founders of the republic, and anxious to restore
peace and prosperity to these States, as well as
to every section, came forward with reconstruc
ton policy which stamped him at once states
man and a champion of the Constitution.
The wise and timely policy of the Presiden
met with the hearty appreciation of the people O.
the South and of the conservative men of tn,
| North.
Rapidly, with the Concurrence of q patriot
President, State and municipal reconstruction
, took place in all the late seeding States.
n Senators and Representatives were elected t
the federal Congress. Notwithstanding the effort
Of the President and of a few Northern and West
ern Congressman, whose veneration for the Con
stitution was unimpaired our newly elected dele
gates were unceremoniously denied their seats
- In common with the rest of the Southern con
= gressiona districts, New Orleans which was per
r mtted to choose one of the two Senators elect
"4 pa - ~ tEsS; no
1 overridp if Dossbe every tradition Of the mast
and every constitutional obligation which stand
; in the way Of supreme power.
To the Roman firmness of Andrew Johnson, ant
to that coming reaction in the public mind of th
. Northern people indicated in recent Ovatious pa
+ him during his tour as far as st. Louis we mus
, look for ultimate representation in Congress-
From radical orators and radical editors VIII
daily fill the minds of listeners and readers wit
such misrepresentations of the Southern people 2
are unparalleled in the history of politics. we hay
| not a single concession to hone for Their sol
t object is bower. That this end may be attained
thev would saddle the Constitution with so man
a amendments as that even MIR, Madison-who caj
ried it's adoUtion in the Commonwealth of Viraini
: against the eloquence of Patrick Henry. and th
apathy of Mr., Jefferson-could he rise from hi
: crave voul6 scarcely recognize tbe creation :
Ris p0tical renins,
> Befne leaving a subiect nrapnant with in
tarest her leave tn ren{ary tbB+ he late aodinT4
: and sailorsj convention Mt cleveland Ohio il
dorsing The action of The pLiadalsLia Natione
! TTnion 1I@nvention has met with tba nnonaiifn
annrohation Of the SoutIlern neonle EsneriaiI
. hps If gratifed the late Southern soIdieTs who's
- yalor enables them to recognize the valor of tb
), soldiers Of the armv of the United States,
. The brave are aiwavs meGnanmons On tb,
contrary, men such as we now find at the head q