Putting it on too strong even for Yankees.
--The New Orleans
Delta (Yankee) is especially waspish and dissatisfied with the condition of affairs in that city and
Louisiana.
Lincoln is disposed to wipe out the
Constitution of the
State and enforce a new one on it, or govern it, perhaps, as a territory, under Yankee auspices.
The
Delta thus vehemently protests against this:
There are things which it (the
Lincoln Administration) is essaying that all its power, however unscrupulously used or abused, cannot accomplish.
It cannot, with all the machinery it has now in full working trim in this place, succeed through the
Northern office-holders composing its Union associations, in overthrowing the laws and Constitution of this Commonwealth of
Louisiana.
If a voice so humble and feeble as ours can be heard in
Washington, we desire the words we convey there may not be forgotten when we say, beware of undertaking, through renegade strangers, more sojourners here, to overthrow this system of State Government, our laws, our rights, our franchises, our Constitution.
It cannot be done through the agency of any man true to the faith that should animate the native of soil or the stranger generously invited within its gates.
No Louisianian will assist in the work.
Pause, then, we implore you, we supplicate you, we earnestly pray and beseech you, before a fraud and a crime that will shock the sensibilities of the world be perpetrated under color of or by your authority.
Leave this people alone.
They are ruined in property; they are bankrupt in hope; none except its comments of office or parties favored by your officials can obtain bread for his children.
Pause, then, in mercy to them and to our country, unhappily torn, distracted, and divided, and, if possible, admit them, as they ought to be admitted, back again to their proper place in the federation which by popular sanction they had never vacated.
A wise opposition at the
North could have rendered such ruinous schemes of faction impossible even of conception.
If, under the coercion of Federal bayonets, the results we deprecate and deplore are reached, fare-well forever to the hope of the patriot and the object of the prayers of every
Christian.
