You will also find
that that convention did assemble, in violation of law, and the
intention of that convention was to supersede the reorganized
authorities in the State government of Louisiana, which had been
recognized by the Government of the United States; and every man engaged
in that rebellion in that convention, with the intention of superseding
and upturning the civil government which had been recognized by the
Government of the United States, I say that he was a traitor to the
Constitution of the United States; and hence you find that another
rebellion was commenced, _having its origin in the Radical Congress_.
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So much for the New Orleans riot. And there was the cause and the origin
of the blood that was shed; and every drop of blood that was shed is
upon their skirts, and they are responsible for it. I could test this
thing a little closer, but will not do it here to-night. But when you
talk about the causes and consequences that resulted from proceedings
of that kind, perhaps, as I have been introduced here, and you have
provoked questions of this kind--though it does not provoke me--I will
tell you a few wholesome things that have been done by this Radical
Congress in connection with New Orleans and the extension of the
elective franchise.
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