The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1868-07-11


nation or indication who would be the
! nominee. Pendlcton received los the first
ballot and 1929 the sixth Hancock 333the
first and. 81 the sixth; English 16 and u
A. johnson 65 and 81 Packer 1G and II;
Church SO every ballot Parker Is and Is;
Hendricks y and 5. r. johnson, Dooiit-
Blair, Ewing, Seymour and J. Q. Adams
received scattering votes. 1t was thought
that Pendleton could not get the nomlna-
ton, 2O2 votes being necessary to a choice,
and that though Chase's name had not been
mentioned, the final contest for the nomi
nation would be between him and Senator
Hendricks.
The platform adopted by the Convention
is to the following effect:
Slavery and secession are regarded as
dead issues. Bonds payable in lawful nor.
ev unless the face calls for co n. Equal
taxation on all property, including coin.
One currency for all. Economy. Red C.
ton of the army and navy. The abolition
of the Freedmen's Bureau, and of linguistic
rial modes for collecting the revenue tariff
for revenue; s2bordination of military to civ
il authority restoration of all the States
amnesty for all political offences, including
the restoration OF suffrage in all the States =;
the control of suffrage belongs exclusively
to each State-Congress has usurpeu it in
violation of the constitution.
Reconstruction acts declared unconstltu-
tional and void. Thanks johnson, and IN
vites all parties to unite on this platform.
~" We have received a number of the
United States Musical Review, published
by j. L. Peters, New York, at 81 per an
mum. 1t is we'll filled with the latest mu-
steal compositions and appropriate reading
matter. Those who wish to keep posted in
the musical world, should subscribe for it.
~ An act has been passed in the lower
branch of the Legislature, by a vote of 81
yeas to II nays, authorizing the Governor
of the State to inquire into the qualiica-
ton of all persons holding or claiming to
hold any Office by the appoi 1tment of tie
Governor, or by virtue of any election
State, judicial or parochial, heretofore held,
or which may be hereafter holden, in this
State, and if he finds any such officer dis
qualified by the provisions of the third Sec
ton Of the proposed Fourteenth Amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States, or by the terms Of Article SO of the
Constitution of Louisiana, he shall withhold
the commission from such person required
by law to be issued to him by the Cover.
nor of the State, and he shall moreover de-
clare such office vacant"
The following is the third section of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
Of the United States, above referred to:
Sec. 8. No person shall be a Senator or
Representative in Congress, or elrctoc for
President and Vice President, or hold any
office, civil or military, under the United
State or under any State, who, having pre-,
siously taken an oath as a member of Con.
gress, or as a member of any Stale legisla.
ture, or as an executive or judicial officer OF
any State, to support the Constitution Of
the United States, shall have engaged in re-
bellion or iDsurr ction against the United
States, or given aid or comfort to the enc
mics thereof. But Congress may, by a vote
of two-thirds of this House, remove such
disability.
Article 80 of the State Constitutionreads:
ART. SO. The following persons shall be
prohibited from voting and holding any
office: All persons who shall have been
convicted of treason, perjury. forgery, bri-
berry, or other crime punishable in the pen
itentiarY, and persons und r Introduction.
All persons who are estopped from claim
the right of suffrage by abjuring their allie
glance to the United States government, or
by notorAnsly leyying war against it, or
adhering 10 its enemies, giving them aid or
comfort, #but who have not expatriated
themsel 5, nor have been c nvicted of any
of the en- mes mentioned in the first para
graph of this article, arclhereby restored to
the said Fight, except the followingA Those
who hel office, civil or military, for one
year or more under the organizatio4 styled
THE Confederate States of America those
who registered themselves as enemi& oil the
United States those who acted as leaders
OF guerrilla bands during the late re& eliionz
Athose VIII" in the advocacy Of treason wr9G
pr published newspaper articles or ApreS En-
sermons during the late rebeIl&1%and
lose W b voted for and signed Brdin-
a e of e~cession in any state. berson
Inn u these exceptions $ either
vof old oflce until ne sha ave re-
lev nseif oy voluntarily ing and
sigY certrfcate setting that ne
acH dyes the late rebelia to have
be ally ana POLITICALLY ~srong, and
egrets any and and comfort he may
y; ana ne shall ne the certlfl-
once OF me seersfary OF state
all De puoiis h the Official
That mo- who prior to
anus y hundred and