The Washington union., 1857-08-27
rHE NEw oRIEANs pElTA.


its hostility to the national democracy But 1t re-
solved that its political position should not be LETT
to inference conjecture and it has for consider
able period declared its opposition to the measures
and policy of the democratic party. 1t has stand
ard of its own--a purely sectional capricious and
arbitrary stsndard-by which everything political is
measured and by its scale everything is adjusted.
From its decisions il admits of appeal. Its de-
cree is doom. IL condemns with the caprice and
i'll nature of a tyrant, and utters its judgments
with the mperiousness of despot. If it only
had power equal to its will, this great re-
public would soon be shorn of its vast pro-
portions, the Union broken up, and the island OF
Cuba, some tropical province in Central Amer
ica, become the Utopia of its hopes, and the the
atre Of its peculiar minstrations. But now, and
here in these United States, it is cabined and crib
bed" in the free exercise Of its dauntless energies
Here there is nothing that suits it there is nothing
that pleases it, In its eyes the wisdom of the demo-
cratic party is folly, their measures tyranny and
their policy treason The best men of that party are
scoundres the purest knaves, and its patriotic
men traitors. tjudges the men and the measures
of the democratic party with the absouteness of om
Impotence and, fancyng itself the imbodiment of all
justice and morality, exclaims, there is none that
doeth good-no not one.' If it had the amiable
merit of honesty, we should hear from it nothing
but the complanings and wailings of mod
ern jeremiah, but, being of the family Of the
''slashers,' with gentle of the 'stiger, it
considers that it has peculiar mission to abuse and
yilify all from whom il chooses to differ. Its Office
seems to be exclusively one of denuncation 1t de-
nounces the President and his administration in the
coarsest and grossest terms. 1t denounces Governor
Walker II denounces the national democracy North
and South, and classes them all as frec-soers and
political apostates and reprobates. And why Sim
ply because this same national democracy is so stu
pid and so blind that it will not what the Delta
Sees and unite with il for dissolution of the Union
Alas if the preservation of our glorious Union the
successful support Of federave system, the just
and proper administration Of the affairs of the gene
raj government, depended upon the Delta and the
Boston Liberator and their sympathizers, how long
would they last?
We give in another column an article from recent
number Of the Delta, simply for the purpose of ex-
hibiting to our readers specimen of the temper
and style of its editorials. We wish them to the
rasping spirit and the gross injustice with which il
speaks of the President and his administration. AS
to its charges against the Washington Union, our
readers will comprehend at glance their true char
acter and their total unfarness and untruth. 1t says
that we denotnced the Georgia and Mississippi de-
mocracy" Now, we are obliged to declare that this
is absolutely untrue and all the readers of the
Union know it to be so. We have denounced no
one 1t is not in harmony with our temper or dispo-
sition to deal in denunciation at any time. We dif-
fered from the Georgia and Mississippi conventions
in their views concerning Governor Walkers policy
in Kansas, but VIC differed with regret. We stated
our regrets, sincerely and truly, at the time. We
presented facts, arguments reasons to sustain our
position and to defend the administration, but never
d word Of denunciation against the Georgia or
Mississippi democracy escaped us. We defy the
Delta to show one word or sentence of the kind. If
it cannot let it admit that it has done injustice.
AS to its gloomy figures Of "creoping snakes hiss
ing full Of venom, "venal pandercr "supercious-
ness y "ree-soil advocate Of free-so governor Of
Kansas )" and SO FORTH our friends who know us, and
even those who do not know US, but who read the
Union, will be amazed at the application of such
terms to u.s. But, then, why should they wonder?
The Delta belongs to the "slasher" and 'ire-eatng'
school of political writer's and it must abuse, it
must vilify some body. But its vocation and amia-
bic pcculiarities so striliingy and amusingly
hit off by the Mobile Register that cannot better
close these remarks than by giving them to our read
| ers
/ q TIE NEW ORLEANS DELTA.-We need not inform our
readers that this journal belongs to that large family
known as the Circulation Trepids always worse to-day
than IL Yesterday, and never was any better. Its
mission Is denunciaon and its ceaseess cry is crisis
Ii realizes the vulgar notion of the samandcr and lives
only in the fire. Political alarms 'agitatons, com
yulsions and revolutions its familiar gcni The
overthrow of existing governments and the rcorganiza
ton of new dynastics out Of the fragments, has been
with it AN end and attainment In the grand cru
SADIE il is making against everything and everybody, New
Orleans is too small field for its operations Louisiana
"a pcntup Utica in the estimation Of its ubiquitous pa
triosm Not satisfied with the food furnished by dvis-
ions at home it kindly volunteers its counsel to the de-
woke smile if the Joke not too stale by frequent
4 rcpetons 1t analyzes election just past and de-
| nounccs the southern democracy unsound and un-
Trustworthy Well we supposeit must be endured The
Delta cannot help it, 1t is like certain writer's of fiction
who cannot deal with cscsand ordinary
but must have some adinxtuse of blood and thunder.
The Delta has so long lived stimuans that its taste is
deadcncd and its appreciation Of wholesome food des-
troyed Its Office is perhaps useful onc it serves the
double purpose of safety and whistle whisting of
steam at the same time that it blows dcafcning alarm
but remember reader, this portion of the machinery
Of alln To he of