The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-05-07
The New Orleans Press.

The New Orleans Press.
We have been handed files of New Orleans
papers, of May ID, by Mr.. VIM. Tileston,
clerk of the Fanny Bullitt.
The Picayune devotes the greater portion
of its editorial space to denunciations of
SIR. LincoIn's proclamations ordering the
blockade of all the Southern ports and no
tifying every person who attempts the
capture of an American vessel under
letters of marque from JEFF. Davis will be
hung as a pirate. The Picayune, of course,
is outraged. 1t says these proclamations
are issued by Mr.. Lincoln in utter disregard
of the constitution he has sworn to support,
the laws he has sworn to execute, and the
laws of nations. 1t endeavors to draw a
little consolation from a fine spun argu-
ment proving, or attempting to prove, that
in ordering q blockade Mr.. Lincoln
has declared war, and thus virtually ac-
knowledges the Confederate States as
Government The Picayune evidently de-
rives comfort from its peculiar style of reas-
oning, and, as it does not move single
vessel from the mouth of the Mississippi, we
presume Mr.. Lincoln will have no particular
objection to it. Retaliation, the Picayune
says, will be adopted by Jefferson Davis,
and every man swung up for privateering,
will be amply avenged in the death of those
whom the fortunes of war throw into that
worthy's clutches. 1t closes its TRADE by
saying that, either under the laws of the
United States, the laws of nations, or the
laws of humanity, the proclamation of
Lincoln is as lawless as it is brutal and in
solent 1t will be scorned there and repu-
dated by the civilized world.
The True Delta objects to the manner in
which the Provisional Congress at Mont
gomery transacts its business. 1t growls
at President Davis for making allusion to
no matters not already well-known to the
public at large and it infers from the message
that the secret system of transacting bust
ness adopted by the Confederate Govern
ment, will be persisted in. This course the
True Delta has no objection to so long as
the business in hand has reference to mill
tary and naval matters alone, bu! if it be,
as it presumes it is, the determination of the
provisional government to arrange an eff
cient system Of finance, to impose the need
full taxation upon which to firmly base it.
and to accommodate the tariff to the abso-
Lutte necessities Of the country, these meas
ures should be openly discussed, and thor
oughly, by all those whom they are destin,
ed to affect.
The True Delta admits the disastrous con-
sequences of a blockade to the bushes;
men of New Orleans, and thinks the day
cannot be far distant when the present
stocks of merchandise will be exhausted
and when, as a natural consequence, stores
will be closed and much permanent injury
irreparably inflicted upon merchants and
their employees, and the public at large
All of this might have been prev ented il
argues, had the Montgomery Congress acted
Wisely and thrown open their ports free tC
the commerce of the world. In connection
with this theory it urges the necessity o
discharging the hordes of hungry govern.
ment officials who are now eating out the
substance of the Southern States, aud the
Inauguration of the most rigid economy il
the administration of public affairs.