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s to be effected and secured by the votes of these groundless fabrications, in which a fiction was to be considered as good as the truth. Having attained all these facts which are yet to be stated, he may begin to form some estimate of the remnants of the Constitution, and of the probable existence of any true union of the states. To proceed with the narration: under the above-mentioned proclamation of the President of the United States, Major General Banks issued at New Orleans, on January 11, 1864, a proclamation for an election of state officers, and for members of a state constitutional convention. The state officers, when elected, were to constitute, as the proclamation said, the civil government of the State under the Constitution and laws of Louisiana, except so much of the said Constitution and laws as recognize, regulate, or relate to slavery, which, being inconsistent with the present condition of public affairs, and plainly inapplicable to any class of persons now exist