Note 16 — Chapter I

For a full account of the early period of reconstruction in this State see Ficklen, History of Reconstruction in Louisiana. As evidence that election disorders were not wholly a result of reconstruction, it might not be amiss to call attention to the governor’s valedictory message of 1856. Society in Louisiana before the war, while polite and even more—brilliant, had been far from law-abiding with its frequent encounters under the duelling oaks, the Plaquemines frauds of 1844, and the riot of 1855. See Gayarré, IV., 679.