Read the following questions posed by a Louisiana Democrat after Lincoln’s election. What are we to do? Shall we remain quiet and wait to see him inaugurated, and develop his plan and policy, or shall we anticipate what it will be and act at once to take steps for our self-preservation? What shall these steps be? Shall we have a Southern Convention of the slave states or will each state act by itself? These are important questions.–Questions posed by a Louisiana Democrat after Lincoln’s election

What is the speaker’s concern regarding Louisiana’s political future?

A. He was concerned that the new government would preserve slavery
B. He was worried that the new government would try to abolish slavery
C. He was worried that the new government would replace Louisiana’s elected officials.
D. He was concerned that the new government would develop no new plans or policies.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?