New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-29

And their apprehsnsoRs might well lead them
to fear that no familiarity with their presence
would lead the amazed heholders either to en-
dure, to pity, or enbrsce." Not having the full
benefit Of the light which beams from the Tribune
Office directly upon the assemblage, through the
correspondent, who is conveniently used ag re-
fracting leps, We are compelled to crepe some.
What in The DARK in diyning the objects of this
meeting Of the sages. The general impression seems
to be hatitis to prepare tie way for the fvrmal
meeting of the members Of the late convention
with q design III regamiag their abdicated
power, and Of reigning supreme over a
people whose vote las displaced them
from the positions which they held, and
merged them VIII the other citizens Of the State
as subjects Of the sovereignty which has been
established. Wa know not upon what meat bhey
may have fed, or what juices they may have in.
bibed, to endte them to usurp the tyranny over
their masters, the people of Louisiana. And while
we eannot but admire the ambition of the frog
which sought to swell itself into the magnificent
proportions of the OK, our fears forebode an
equally Sad fate for the meager conolave which
seems disposed to initiate itself to the dimensions
Of fuli-grown convention, representing the SOY
ereignty of State. We commend to them the
example OF the frog, as one which they should not
initiate.
But the proposition to resugcitate convention
which has expired, and which has been buried,
leads US to make other suggestions. If the con
vention Of 1854 can be exhumed from beneath the
mass of contempt and indignation which encum-
Der its remains, the conventions of 1915 and oil
1862 can also be brought to life. Even the con
yentiOn which formed the first State Constitution
may receive new lease of political existence
for any argument that may be urged in favor Of
the last, may with equal or greater force, be ad-
vanced in support of the life of the other. 1t is
true that the people have sat as !" crowner .
upon each of these corpses, and pronounced it
Christian bural but the ghost of one be called up
for the public gaze insist that the others be also
brought tolight. We are opposed to this monopoly
n conjuring up the spirits of the departed. Weare
Or the equal rights Of the ghosts of our dead
conventions. We believe the two previous con
yentions, if assembled, would even now be more
numerous than the last, and we think that with
proper aid from the spritualists the original State
of 1872 could rap up larger Assem-
llage than that composed of the wizards of the
dechanics' Institute. We suggest trial We
,eeve in fair competition. Therefore, let al
heHe conventions assemble at once. Let them |
deliberate; and let each assert its separate
oyereignty, establish its separate government,
.ndappeal to the New England Congress- to de-
tide which ghost is most republican in form and
5pmneriBn in proportions.
tits true that Mr.. Sumner having probably i'm
Dibed come Of the prejudices of his ancestors
against witGhcraft, might be disposed to try the
New England experiment of drowning, upon the
wizards who had wrought such remarkable con
jurations. But we suggest to the msgicans lately
assembled at the Mechanics Institute that they
may forestall any such experiment in the presence
Of the Congress by 8 self inflicted ordeal in the
presence Of the admitting citizens of New Orleans.
Let them throw themselves incontinently into the
middle Of the Mississippi river. II they are the
wizards we take them to be they cannot drown.
If they should happen TO sink, as some of the
witches used to do in the good old times of the
Puritana it would only be sproof according to the
oions doctrine OF the fathers, of their innocence.
Bg this easy proceeding they will be enabled to
'oFestall the experiments of Mr.. Sumner Justify,
~ swimming ashore, the suspicious which are
low abroad in reference to theirsupposed dealings
With the prince Of darkness, or prove, by drown
ug themselves, their entire innocence of the
haTges preferred against them by malicious and
n unsppreciating world.