been a friend, having never deceived them by flattering their prejudices or having never misled them to indulge false and exaggerated expectations. He honestly inculcated the teachings of good-will and good feeling between the races as most conducive to the prosperity and good order of society and the well being of both races.
Mr. Hahn was a conspicuous figure in a memorable movement which had serious international significance during the war, but which has been obscured by the overshadowing prominence of the stirring episodes of that eventful period. Louis Napoleon was restrained from recognizing the Southern Confederacy only by the obstinate refusal of the British ministry to co-operate with him in that direction, the British ministry itself being controlled by the force of public opinion in England. The oft-repeated assurances of Mr. Seward that the war would be of short duration had lost their efficacy and had emboldened Louis Napoleon, who pointed to the fluctuating fortunes of the contending armies as indicating an uncertainty in the result, if not an indefinite prolongation of the struggle between the Federal and Confederate armies.
Mr. Lincoln determined to offset this argument in favor of recognition, so urgently pressed by Napoleon upon the other courts, by making it appear that as Federal armies conquer territory civil government was being re-established with a view to the early reunion of the States. Louisiana, once a province of France, was selected as the field for this civil manifestation of restored Federal authority. This scheme of rehabilitating a seceded State amid the clash of arms was mainly designed to counteract the intrigues of Louis Napoleon. New Orleans and a few riparian parishes were the only territory in Louisiana actually and exclusively occupied by the Federal Army. A convention representing an insignificant fragment of the State was called. A constitution was formed and civil officers were elected, and Mr. Hahn was duly installed as governor-elect of the State of Louisiana.
So incompatible was this deformed civil government with the exigency of military occupation and military domination that Mr. Lin-
