The Shreveport Weekly News

Signs of Caving In.

Under this caption, that vile sheet, the New Orleans True Delta, undertakes the castigation of our worthy leaders. Jeff Davis and others. The strenuous effort, a very faint one--made by this already disreputable journal, is so insignificant in its every character, that it really deserves no notice from ourselves, or any other journal; but the simple fact of its audacity compels us to pass a few remarks.

Not a little astonished were we when reading the article, we could not for a moment think there was in our Southern country, to be found, one which would presume to attack men beyond reproach, men whose sole study is the success of our Confederacy; men who are endeavoring by every honorable means to have the rights of the South acknowledged. Beyond this, our contemporary informs us that our volunteers are starving; yes,--that they are compelled to put up with victuals and treatment of the worst kind.

This will be news to many of its readers. Our gallant leader is blamed for not having arms, etc. Read this clause:

"With one hundred and fifty thousand men in arms and in the field, the depots of arms, clothing and provisions, upon which they are to rely, are nowhere to be seen; and no one need be disappointed if our heroic youth, who have with chivalrous alacrity rushed to the defence of their country, and are imperilling health, life and everything for its honor and independence, are without the commonest necessaries and most indispensable implements, while our provisional masters are clothed in official purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. It is against this we protest; it was to provide against contrasts so humiliating and painful we have so persistently and indulgently refrained from censure of those having authority, and took such pains to inculcate for their instruction and improvement these great political principles, deviation from which cannot take place without the accompaniment of the most damaging consequences. It is not yet too late for the provisional authority to remedy the evil already done."

Talk about dictators after reading the extracts we publish. That journal, is not satisfied with the selection made, of Jeff Davis, President, and A. H. Stephens, as Vice President, and suggests the propriety of making better selections; provided the advice of that sheet is not heeded.

But, we forget, kind reader the subject is discussed by the True Delta, and we must make allowances. The ending of that terrible onslaught is as follows:

"If these things be done on the assembling of the provisional authorities on the 20th inst., at Richmond, all may yet be well; but to make the future certain the people had better at once set about selecting suitable persons for the presidency and vice-presidency and the confederate Congress, for their expectation that in the future, any more than in the past, they will prove themselves capable of achieving more than mere partisan success, and this only when they have all the advantages in their own hands."