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ved, as has been said, the subversion of fundamental principles. The military power may remove obstacles to the exercise of the civil authority, but when these are removed it cannot enter the forum, put on the toga, and sit in judgment upon civil affairs, any more than the hawk becomes the dove by assuming her plumage. However, the next step was taken. It consisted in the publication of the following order by the President of the United States: Executive Mansion, Washington, October 20, 1862. The insurrection which has for some time prevailed in several of the States of this Union, including Louisiana, having temporarily subverted and swept away the civil institutions of that State, including the judiciary and the judicial authorities of the Union, so that it has become necessary to hold the State in military occupation; and it being indispensably necessary that there shall be some judicial tribunal existing there capable of administering justice, I have therefore though