The South Since The War Author:Sidney Andrews Excerpt: ... XXXII. REVIEW OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATE CONVENTION. Macon, November 8,1865. THE State Convention adjourned at noon to-day, subject to the call of its President, having held a session of thirteen days. The delegates were enabled before leaving town to settle the gubernatorial question quite to their own satisfaction, and I pres... more »ume to the general satisfaction of the people. Alexander H. Stephens appreciates his position, and declines to run for any office, thus leaving the field clear for Judge Charles J. Jenkins, of Augusta, whose election will take place on the 15th instant. It would be a mockery to say that this was a Convention of loyal men. The flag was neither raised on the StateHouse where the Convention met nor on the hotel where nine tenths of the delegates boarded; and I know, of my own knowledge, that when an outsider remarked one morning to a knot of four delegates that it would look well to hoist the flag on the Capitol, he was answered, "No, I '11 be d--d if anybody gets that up there." It was found easy enough to invite ex-Rebel generals and ex-Rebel colonels and ex-Rebel politicians to seats on the floor of the Convention, but no motion was made to invite to such seats either Major-General Steadman, commanding the department, or Brevet Major-General Wilson, commanding the district, or Brigadier-General Tillson, State Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, all of whom were obliged to find seats as best they could in the dirty and miserable little gallery. Furthermore, the report getting out that one delegate of some Union propensities meant to move a resolution giving these officers such courtesies, he was waited upon by another delegate who said to him, "I give you fair warning, you can do as you please, but if you do move such a resolution you '...« less