General Banks, in accordance with this plan, ordered an election of State officers for February 22, 1864. Hahn, the successful administration candidate, was inaugurated on March 4. About ten days later he was invested with the “powers exercised before by the military governor.” It is of importance to note that as early as this campaign the issue in the radical party was the treatment of the negroes after emancipation. Delegates to a constitutional convention were subsequently chosen and April 6, ninety-four[2] of the men elected met in New Orleans, a fair set of men, but already showing a tendency toward that extravagance which was later to be such a blot upon reconstruction. The convention abolished slavery,[3] but restricted suffrage to white males, although it empowered the legislature to confer it on “such persons, citizens of the United States, as by military service, by taxation to support the government, or by intellectual fitness may be deemed entitled thereto.”[4] A constitution was adopted and submitted to the people, but only 8402 votes were cast in ratification as compared with 11,411[5] in the election of Hahn. The new legislature provided for met October 3, elected two Senators, and adopted the Thirteenth Amendment unanimously. Although this government was duly recognized by the President and its ratification of the Amendment gladly counted to help embody it in the organic law, its authority was restricted to a very narrow limit--that actually within the Union military lines[6]--and neither branch of Congress admitted the members chosen by the new government, while the Presidential vote of 1865 was rejected. The legislature of 1865, fully representative of the State, and just as fully Democratic, met in extra session to elect two new Senators in case the two elected previously be rejected as not truly representative. With these two Senators, Henry Clay Warmoth presented himself at Washington as territorial delegate of the radical Republicans of the State,[7] his expenses defrayed by his negro constituents, who joyfully deposited their half-dollars with their first ballots to pay the expenses of their impecunious delegate.[8] Some thirty or more of the members of the convention of 1864 were so angered at seeing the offices of the State passing to the ex-rebels that, with the consent of the governor and a judge of the Supreme Court, they began to meet and plan how they could evict them. Before adjourning, the convention of 1864 had decreed that it might be reconvoked at the call of the President “for any cause, or in case the constitution should not be ratified, for the purpose of taking such measures as may be necessary for the formation of a civil government for the State of Louisiana.” This resolution, however, had not been incorporated in the constitution and had never been passed upon by the people.[9]