The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-08-03
The I.auisiana Rows Rad icalisIn
Terribly Rampant.

submitted to the people $50 many as were
within Federal lines at the tine) and
adopted. Thereupon the eonvention adj
journed. Unfortunately for radicalism
that Constitution did not confer upon ne
grees the right to vote. But radicallsm
las in Tennessee) never stops where either
fraud or force can carry the point-so this
defunct convention undertook to assemble
again--two years after It performed all II
was elected for--for the sole purpose 0i
amending the Constitution SO as 70 per-
nit negroes 10 out-pote the white population
of the State. @
Judge ABELI, Of New Orleans, himself a
Union man aud a member Of that conven-
tion, charged the Grand Jury that the re-
assembling of the convention for the pur-
pose of altering the law OF the State was
contrary to law that It was an illegal and
unlawful assembly; and the parties com
posing it attempting to re-assemble should
be indicted.
In spite Of forewarnings, the Radical
schemers urged this convention to meet
again for the express purpose Of creating
difficulty. The convention did meet; and
public meetings were held in which the
distinct purpose was aYowed of comforting
on negroes the right to vote. This Internal
scheme to fasten negro rule upon the white
race resulted--as it will everywhere, North
and South--in violence and bloodshed. The
people Of New Orleans became excited.
and made ali onslaught upon the crowd
chiefly niggers, with sprinkling of "white
niggers--in which a large number Of
.'colored persons" saw daylight for the last
time. ..gs... r..sI
These ''rioters" may be stigmatized as
returned rebels" or by any other name the
northern abolition sheets may choose--but
when radicalism attempts to fasten upon
the Northern people "unqualified suffrage,
It will find returned patriots" by the thous-
ands :enacting similar scenes. The niger
is nigger, and must be kept in his place
He is not entitled to vote, notwithstanding
Gen. ScnENcK's great desire that he may
be permitted to do so. His social or politi-
cal equality will never be tolerated, u. 90
OF course. such papers as the Dayton
Journal think it awful and terrible that
these loyal niggers should not be permitted
in Louisiana to have it all their own way.
OF course the Journal thinks that the as
sembling of that Convention was as inno-
cent as the late Manufacturers Convention
held in Dayton. But reading men know
that the Convention was assembled to tSiItP
po,oer; to change, by force, the organic law
of the State, and to confer upon negroes the
right to vote. 800 g
Hence It was that President JOHNSON,
fearless and true as he seems to be upon all
questions of reconstruction, sent the fol-
lowing order to the scene Of aetioni a.
WASHINGTON, July 80, 1866.
To Andre,o S. Heron, Attorney General Of
Louisiana: r. ..I ..f..,...,.
You will call on General Sheridan, OF
whoever may be In command, for sufficient
force to sustain the civil authorities in
suppressing all Illegal or unlawful assem-
blies who usurp or assume to exercise any
power or authority without first having
obtained the consent of the people OF thu
State. ,l Iu I-r..1.. .,..
III there is to be a Convention, let it bC
composed of delegates chosen from the
people of the whole state. uI,H 1l.fut 70
not changing the organized laws of tn
Dsurpatlon wii1 an not Gt;tt;on pc s1iert!on' u.t ~
sustained and thereby peace and order.
IgII LI-.4oi ANDREW JOHNSON,
This order is judged an interference witt
the State and In contradiction to the Presi
dents policy. This is not true. Upon tn
request of the authorities the military
have always been used to assist the civi
authorities-and the order OF the Fresiden
is that General SHERIDAN shall furnisl
sufficient force "to sustain the ciuiI dilthori
,iesn Rut n does not lie i'm the mouth q
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