Year: 1861

gether, traded together, ana always with
mutual satisfaction, but with honest truth
we can say it was you, not US, that have
changed the current Of our feelings, and
as to the idea of conquering US and max
ing US sue for peace, it is simply prepos-
ferrous, and it is only from the gravity OF
the subject that prevents it from being
ridiculous, for while there is man lett
to strike blow there will be no surrend-
er, and | do believe that the women
would protract the contest, even after
the last man was gone.


You ask why our journals stigmatize
the men of the North as towards. l ex-
pect you see but few Southern Journals,
now l am a constant reader of the Plea.
yune, Delta, True Delta and Crescent
These are all papers of known reputation
and L have yet to see anything like such
language used in them. 1t is very true
they do come down upon New England
for being 50 lavish of men aud money in
a contest in which the principal controv-
ersey is the Negro, when in our last war
with Great Britain as also with Mexico,
she hardly furnished Corporal's Guard,
and in our contest with England, when
our seamen and soldiers were engaged
in the contest, she was sitting IN her
Hartford Convention, as traitors, hatch
ing treason. We do not forget all this,
aud if it was simply the New Englanders,
we were going to engage with, we would
march to the contest with more alacrity
than to a banquet. To the contrary OF
all this, we look upon you as all OF the
same family, and it Is natural for an
American to fight, i mean white Amer.
cans not Duchmen or Negroes.l You
say that the North has loaned your Gov
ernment S3S, 100000, this may all be,
but when you tell me New York stands
pledged for S4U,000,000 more, l must
take it with some grains of allowance
when l know that New York is SAC, 600,
900 in debt already. Another thing
you say we are enlisting men of known
Union sentiment, and after their time
has expired we can not get another Army
together. My friend, let me dsabuse
your mind at once in regard to this. /
myself with many others were opposed to
separate State secession, and this was
with very few exceptions the only kind
of Union men in the South from the first,
but now it would be hard to find one in
thousand of this kind of Union men i'll
Louisiana, AMI from all L can hear or
read, it is pretty much the case in all OF
the seeded States, and in the place of
forcing men into our ranks our Governor
has had to refuse volunteers, aud If it
should become necessary, the children OF
the South will march willingly to the
field as one man, whether adopted or ma
tive born, and as for the necessarlcs of
life, we shall not lack for them. Since
| have been South | have not seen such
promising crops of all kinds, and one
thing certain, Uncle Abraham, can not
prevent us from raising them, for If he
was to start his army of hundred
thousand men down here now, we would
have an ally which would be better than
an army with banners. Heretofore we
have dreaded Yellow Jack, but this time
we will welcome him as friend. so
let Mr.. Lincoln wade in.


Take friends advice and stay at
home, and take care of your wife and
children. The South has taken nothing
from any poor man; on the contrary had
been permitted to 90 on in peace, itwould
have been one of the best places on the
earth for mechanic"