The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-12
TIE STATE CONVENTION.


When the Demo cratic State Convention I'D
journed, it adopted resolution to meet again
on the 18th of this month. The necessity for
reassembling grew out of the existence of
questions which had been brought before the
convention for consideration. bat which the
more pressing necessities of the canvass did
not permit to be decided at that time. Be-
sides these questions, it was foreseen that
others, perhaps even more important, be-
cause wider in their scope, and having more
direct bearing on the political and social con-
dition of the State, would necessarily arise
after the election. The result of the contest
has not in the least, weakened these causes.
They exist now in as full vigor, and they de-
mand decision quite as imperiously as when
the convention lastmet.
The result in Louisiana has demonstrated
so thoroughly revolution in the relations of
parties, and has 80 conclusively proven the
fraudulent texture by which the actual State
government holds possession, that CONSOLE
dalton of public opinion into some form ex-
pressive of these changes is inevitable. 1t
is for the convention, as a body representing
not only the Democratic party of Louisiana,
but the whole people of the State, to take up
these questions before they lead to unmanagea-
BILE complications, and to bring to the consid-
Grafton of them that spirit of calm and judi
cial inquiry by which such a body ought to
be influenced in an attempt at the solution of
problems SO momentous. There can be no
doubt, there is no doubt, that the intrusive
agents of pretended authority who now as
sumo to govern Louisiana have no real
power in the State, and that they are recog-
nized only for convenience and until such time
as circumstances may dispose of them, in
their official capacity, without subjecting
the community to violent shocks and disas-
trous reactions. There can be just as little
doubt that their tenure of power is drawing
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fact, their government is destined to that
speedy dissolution to which it was fated
from the hour of its birth. But how to
accomplish this desirable end in manner
consistent with the peace and dignity and
interests of the State is very serious
question: question which must not be
left to the decision of unreasoning chance,
or to the hazards of conflicting OF divergent
opinions What is to be done must be
done calmly, resolutely, and it must be the
result of such concurrence of views as will
invest the action of the people with the
force of unanimity and the dignity Of
sovereign power.
We, therefore, hope that the members of
the convention will not omit to meet in this
city on the day appointed. We trust that
there viii be q full attendance from all parts
of the State. We want the opinions of the
people of all sections and, if possible, of every
parish. The questions presented for consid-
Grafton are 80 serious that no one section of
the State would take the responsibility of de-
Gliding them. The city of New Orleans will,
of course. be fully represented; and the people
decision on which the people of the State may
agree, but their relations with the actual pre-
tended government are SO exceptional, and
SO peculiar, that they would decline to COM
init the rest Of the State to their own views.
whatever those views might be. They desire
to consult with their fellow-citizens, for they
feel that the time has arrived for consultation
with view to some practical expression of
the public opinion of Louisiana