Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-08-06
TIE LOUISIANA CONVENTION OF 1854.

ne extracts from New Orleans paper,
which we lay oe fore our readers this afternoon,
giving full particulars of the commencement
and progress Of the riots in that city, bear us
out in the statements we male In reference to
the origin OF the difficulty in an editorial on
Wednesday. These extracts, IS well as state.
nents in other New Orleans journals, show
conciusively that the troubles were the legiti-
mate results. in part of the course of Congress
In holding the Southern States as conquered
provinces, and more directly, Of the revolution.
AIRY proceedings of the Radical State Conyen.
ton.
That Convention claimed the right 10 re-
assemble. under their action in 1861, when they
adjourned 70 meet subject to the call of the
President OF the Convention, and when they
provided also that the Governor should issue
writs Of election in parishes not represented
portion Of the Convention wished to re-
assemble at this time, in order to perpetuate
their ascendancy in State affairs, but the actual
President wisely refused to call them together
Determined not to be foiled, they, in total dis
regard Of the wishes of the people of Louisiana.
met and elected President pro teD and on
his call they came together. Election wits
were duly issued, but without the signature OF
the Secretary Of State of louisiana
Thus, in defiance OF law and precedent, the
Convention met, many OF the members having
previously, by their injudicious curse. pro.
yoked an excited state of public feeling, with
the result We have seen. Many of the most in
fiuential and respectable Republican journals
take this impartial view of the case
Thus the New York Post admits that ..,he
reassembiing Of the Louisiana Convention AS a
convention was wholly without authority
from the people. The Convention had already
done its work" And the Commercial Adrerfiser
Of Saturday says still more emphatically:
according TO the prevalent ideas of the OBJ.
Jeet and mission OF a Constitutional Conyen
uon, this body ceased to exist when il made a
Consultation and Submitted IL to the people II
could not, without doing violence 10 the gen.
eral theory of our Republican system, perpet.
uate itself by adjournments from one wear TO
announcer, and SO continue its existence indef-
nitely, and remain the eternal reorganizer of
the fuLdamental law. A convention for Louis
lana needs new "blood.- 1t should represent
tne Siate as It u. and not as it was under the
Banks rule. We may assume that the meeting
OF these gentlemen under the yelling preten
sion OF q Convention was altogether wrong
TIE Crops AND LABOR OF TENNESSEE.
The Assistant Commissioner Of the Freed
mems Bureau in Kentucky and Tennessee re-
Gently addressed circular to each superin-
tendent in the district. requiring replies to the
following queries:
lat. What portion Of your county is in culti.
sauon this year as compared with 1907 ID
are tnere as many acres Of Gotten planted as in
1eo0i Sd. Are the freedmen generally indus
trieus and faithful 10 their engagements ath
Are thr planters generally liberal and lust to.
wards the freed peoplef
The Assistant Commissioner has forwarded
10 the chief Of the Bureau the reply of each
superintendent, and from these reports We
gather that there is q much greater area OF land
under cultivation this year than there was al
the beginning Of the rebellion; and the GUAM
tIty OF land planted in cotton is much greater
than the usual crop put In in Tennessee As
general rule the freed people are faithfully
performing their contracts, though in some
few Of the counties they are disposed to wan.
der about from one employer to another. and
break their engagements lightly; and the PEG.
pie are making quite liberal contracts with the
freedmen, treat them very well, and eyince
disposition to do them justice. There are some
exeepfit ms 10 this rule. but even these show 8
marked improvement when compared with the
condition OF affairs one year ago.
- We have received from Shjllington,