New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-04
THURSDAY MOANING, oCToBER 4, 1856.

general was only caucus of few Of the mem
bers of the late convention and their radical
/ friends, and no more.
| Secondy-The general saws: "On Friday
night, July 21th, meeting of radical persons was
held at the Mechanics Institute All of the
speeches, except those of DIR. Dostie, said to
have been temperate. The words put in his
mouth were violent and indscreet."
| Not correct, because the words were not put
into but came out of the mouth of DR.. Dotsie and
others, addressed to large concourse Of negroes,
such words as-"Come to the convention on Mon
day next; come armed and if any white son of a
b mOlests you, kill him. You are as white as
they are," etc., etc.
Third-The general further says: "In the same
category with the speeches attributed to DR.. Dos
tie must be placed the charges of Judge Abel to
the grand jury of the parish, in relation to the
conventions"
Not correct. because Dostie asked the colored
people to come armed to defend the convention,
and charged against the advertised meeting and
tie herewith copies of the charges, duly certified
to show that the assertion Of the general is un-
founded
Fourthly-The language of the general towards
this court is gross, prej1diced and made without
single fact for basis.
Fifthly-Because the general officially calls
| Judge Howell president when the journal and
debates of the said convention of 1864 show that
he never was such.
| Sixthly-Because after inserting the Presidents
| telegram, which is as follows:
WASHINGTON, July 80, 1866.
ALBERT yoorhieg, Lieutenant Governor Louisiana:
" The military authorities will be expected to
sustain and not obstruct interfere with the pro-
ceeding5 OF the courts. A dispatch on the sub
| Ject of the convention was sent to Governor
| Wells this morning. (signed)
g ANDREW JOHNSON"
patch saw no reason to doubt but it was amb
guous as to the wishes Of the government in rela
| tion to the convention.n
Unfortunate, because had the general under
atnb opH a}nl q
faith, there would have been no meeting of the
so-caled convention no riot, and consequently no
human blood shed.
Seventhly-The general also says, in the same
paragraph: Judge Abel, of one cf the State
courts, had but recently, in charge to the grand
jury of his parish, denounced the convention of
1864 as unlawful"
Not correct, because there is not word in the
charges referred to against the convention of
1864, as the charges which are made part of this
protest will show The charges, speaking for
themselves, are an earnest charge to the grand
jury against the constitutionality and loyalty of
the advertised meeting of the Both July, 1866, and
faithful warning against the danger of such an
assemblage to the public peace.
EighthEy-The general says (same paragrBph)
"Ihe question then arose as between Judge Abel
and Judge Shannon, which was the military au-
thority to recognize as the court intended by the
President"
Not correct, because there is no such judge as
Shannon. and had no controversy with Commits
6lo4iVi h7AdHAOl VI any OuO else On Tile SUBJECT.
The Hon. E. II. Durell is the only United States
judge in this district, and object to the generals
officially making judges of commissioners or
president of State convention out Of an ex.
member.
The officially dignifying, by the general, a eau
Gus into peaceably sitting convention the long
conversations subject to dispute; the defending Of
Dostie against the incendiary language used by
him the assertions against the court without Civ
ing single fact on which they are based the
dignfying of Judge Howell into president
of State convention, when journals and debates
show that he never was such the assertion that
charged the grand jury against the legality of the
convention of 1864 when the charges here filed
show the very reverse the generals failure to
understand the plain words of The telegram of the
President the imaginary contest between "Judge
Shannon" and Judge Abel, when the records Of
the country will show there is no such "Judge
Shannon''-leave no other conclusion than that
the general was blinded by prejudice and swayed
by passion.
This is a review of about one-half of the gene
rails report of six columns, which appears to be a
special plea in behalf of an attempted usurpation,
and for the generals own neglect in failing to aid
the civil authorities in preventing the meeting of
the Both July, 1856, and the riot Of that day.
1t contradicts nearly all the records and con-
ceded facts of the times and appears to be, in the
language of the great Webster, a report not fit
TO be made"