The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-08-15
Radical History OF the Louisiana
Convention

Radical History of the Louisiana
O.. Convention.
The radicals keep up their mischievous
hows over the denouement of the recent plot
of disorganizers in New Orleans. They are
determined to make the most of the martyred
DOsTIE and those who fell with him in dis
turbing the public peace. If the Convention
of 1864 was denounced by SUMNER and
WADE and STEVENS and WINTER DAVIS and
GREELEY and other radicals, and its work con-
demned by vote of 80 to IL, what change
has taken place in the manner and mode OF
its organization to render it such a marvel
GUS proper thing under the auspices of Gov
ernor WELLS and those in the interests of
radicalsm? The legality of this Convention
was discussed in Congress and by the press
when the so-called representatives of the State
applied for admission, and were rejected by
the radical Congress- This Convention of
1854 was universally denounced as a stupen-
dous hoax The radical Senator, CHARLES
SUMNER, regarded it as utterly indefensble
as to its origin and character. In his estima-
ton, it was seven months abortion besotten
by the bayonet, and born before its time,
rckety, uniformed and unfinished. Mr..
WADE pronounced the pretended cleo
ton mockery, and stated that there could
not be drummed up from the riff-ratf Of New
Orleans and sent into the vicinity, under the
mandate of Major General, more than six
thousand votes, where over fifty thousand
were formerly polled. Mr.. GRIMES uttered
similar sentiments, and THAD. STEVENS and
WINTER DAVIS attacked the affair with
equal fierceness of opposition-a and in the
House it met the same treatment which it had
received from the radicals in the Senate Yet.
now, when its followers urged the negroes and
others to sustain this revival of the denounced
Convention of 1884, by force, and to uphold
its action even at the cost of blood, as the
barber doctor did who forfeited his life by
his inconsiderate and savage disregard of law
and order, the Convention assumes differ
ent aspect in radical estimation. At the meet
ing of the 9th ultimo in New Orleans, pre-
vious to the day of the riot and the assem-
bling Of the Convention, Mr.. JUDD stated
that the object of the meeting was to strength
en- the approaching Convention, and to give it
backbone. Universal suffrage was advocated
and insisted upon as right to be contended
for az all hazards; one of the resolutions adopt
ed at this preliminary meeting affirming that
until this should be attained there will and
can be no peace On the night of the 10Th,
clubs and heavy mis- lies were carried, the dis
organizers were filled with whisky, to bolster
up their courage, and attacks upon peaceable
citizens were with difficulty prevented by the
custodians Of the peace, who later in the
night, were forced into collisions by the ne
groes in various portions of the city. The
affair of the riot was anticipated, the preim-
mary meeting and the reckless professions
manifested the designs and intentions of such
men as DosTIE and the armed negroes whom
he had counseled to prepare themselves, and
uphold the resolves of the Convention, even
at the cost of blood. Such is the radical his
tory of this Convention, in its origin and re-
vival-denouncsd at first as stupendous
hoax and seven months abortion.
Now its revivers and instigators are sustain
ed, and those who persisted in unfolding its re-
solves by force if necessary, and even at the
cost of blood, are lamented as martyred Dos
TIEs-and so, the Tribune says the New Or
leans massaeres are the stringent proof that
impartial suffrage, which the radicals are re-
solved to have, is the only hope for the restol-
alton OF the South and the peace of the Union
Why does not this pestiferous agtator get
impartial suffrage at the North, where it does
not exist? Why not set in order its own
household, and then turn its attention to the
South? Simply because it does not suit its
purposes. These are agitation at the South,
strife contention. disquietude, and prolong-
alton of her present anomalous attitude; and
they leave no time to radicalism to agitate
party must be kept in ferment, and to do
this, agitation is an essential element of the
press, and characterizes what Senator VIII
SON called the other day in Boston "the pro-
duct of our christian civilization" Agitation
and Misrepresentation are the beginning, the
middle and the ending of the radical policy
and tactics s . III. ..-....-;. ...-.-I....
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