The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-24 00:00:00

SPEECH OP .111IRESON DAVIS TO THE
LEGISLATURE OP MISSISSIPPI.

The Richmond Whig of January 5 gives the
followiog report of a speech delivered by Jaime Davis OM
the 26th of Desemeiber to the Legislature of Mississippi,
which it takes from a local paper, the Jac4on Misstasip-
pan :

After a complimentary allusion to Missiuippi and her
soldiers, the President spoke of his desire to transfer the
war upon Northern sod, but the failure to do this pro.
ceeded, not from a want of inclination, but of power. They
were not an old established nation, with armies and navies
at their command. These had to be improvised from the
scanty materials to be foaled within the limits of
their own Confederacy. They were blockaded and cat
off from ether ratios, and everybody Ludlow that they hid
been as apicaltural people, and that their facilities for ms.u'
factoring materials of war were extremely limited. Not-
withstanding this fact, patent to the most casual observer,
they had sew so army larger than ever before our aims and
munitions of war ware increased in number and improved I.
quality,' and they were in a better condition that day
than they were twelve months ago. The eannerip-
tioa and exemption laws were then touched upon,
and the asesesity of the one and the intention of the
other explained. He thought there might properly be a
revision of the latter, and trusted there would be so mu-
ffin between Confederate and State laws on the subject of
the military. The President expressed his gratification at
the massage of Governor Penns, and cordially endorsed his
views in reference to making provision for indigent families
and the enrolment of exempts, who could be ready upon an
emergency to go forth and mew the towhee, while the
disciplined sod mare soldiery could take the field. Thecae
for such manioc meld be for thirty, sixty, or Many days ;
and when the emergency bad passed they could cetera to
their parasite. The President denounced, in terms of
math* bat dignified rebuke, the habit of Armes, from the
army. He invoked public opinion to frown it down, and
called upon the women to drive the stragglers back to duty.
He urged the necessity of tll hog up the thinned ranks of
our regiments. Those veterans who had gone through
many hard-fought battles looked for their kindred at
home to supply the places which bad been made vacant
by the deaths of their comrades. A brigade which mus-
tered only twelve hundred men would have to bleed as
much as if it had its full quota of four thousand. Their
ranks must be filled; humanity demands it. It was •
time for patriots to throw of the shackles of private inte-
rests, ay to the rescue of those heroes whom the ravages
of war had yet spared, and consecrate themselves to the
most sacred came on earth. Our prospects, said
the President, are much better than they were
twelve Inman ago. There are two gated objects of
the enemy : 1. To get possession of the river, and thus
cut our Confederacy is two; and 2ndly, to seise the Con-
federate capital, sod hold it up to foreign nations as an
evidence that the Confederacy does not exist. The
President dwelt at some length upon the vast im-
portance of thwarting the enemy's designs upon this
valley. He considered its defence a necessity not only to
the people here, but to the Confederacy itself. V icksbure
and Port Bodeen were points that must be defended, and
every effort must he strained for this purpose. Vicks-
burg, he said, would stand, and Port Hudson would stand
if the people were true to themselves. This done, the
Northwest would grow restive and Geese to support a war
ruinous to them and beneficial only to New England COO-
tractors. From the Northwest he looked for the first gleams
of pesos. He bad an unfaltering belief in the justice of
our came, and • profound reverence for the decrees of
heaven. He notioed with evident satisfactioe the superior
morality of our army to that of the invader. la God and
the valour of our troops be trusted.

A G Arian= SHOT u NOTIMMAII.—Me.
Addles.., a boot manufacturer of Nottingham, while walk-
log home between 12 and 1 o'clock on Monday morning
Wt, wee attacked by garotte" one of whom he shot in the
Ism, causing both of them to decamp. As he was crowing
over the Carrington-road bridge he perceived himself closely
followed by two suspicious looking men, sod accordingly
increased bin pace for the purpose of leaving them
behind. They, however, increased their pace propor-
tionately until they had creased t►e railway, whew
they divided. one turning to the left and the other still fol.
lowing Mr. Addle." when, at the entrance of the Queen's.
walk, the man who had followed him closely spree( towards
lino, while the other immediately re-appeared home pump
or street user. Mr. Addles.. Nod taken the pteeasties of
carrying with him a pistol shamed with mall shot, sod
springing away from Um man. tweed round aid shot him
in the face. The man reeled fora semod or two, and then
decamped with his coespesios.—/VottinyAain Daily Guar-
dian.

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