The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-06 00:00:00

MISSAOI3 OF PRESIDENT DAVIS.

Mr. Davis states that his inaugural called attention to the
teams which formed the confederacy, and that it is now
only aseeesary to call attention to such facts as have oto
maned during the recess, and to matters connected with the
public defence. He congratulates Congress on the accession
to the Confederacy of other equal Sovereign States. It was
desuied advisable to remove the archives of the several de-
partments to Richmond, to which place Congress had already
reeneved the sat of government.
• The aggressive movements of the enemy have induced
Prowl* Ind energetic action. From theaccumulation of the
enemy's fines' on the Pate's= it ham been sufficiently demon-
strated that his efforts are dincted against Virginia, and from
Dopoint could the necessary measure' for her protection be
so efficiently directed as from our capital. The rapid progress
of the last few months has stripped the veil behind which
the true policy and purposes of Mr. Lincoln's government
had been previously concealed, and they were now fully re-
vealed. The massage of their President, the action of their
Congress during the present session, confer the intention
of subjugation of the acceded States by war, a folly which in
only equalled by its wickedness—a war by which it is
im-
posuble to attain the proposed result. Whilst its dire calami-
ties cannot be avoided by us, they will fall with redoubled
severity on themselves.
Commencing in March last with an affectatioa of ignorance
of the secession of the seven States which organised the Con-
federategoveroment, persisting in April in absurd &sump.
Lions of the existence of a riot which was to be dispersed by
pose comitatus, continuing in successive months false re-
presentations that the States intended offensive war in
spite of conclusive evidence to the contrary, furnished ea
well by official action se by the basis of the constitution,
the President orthe United States succeeded in deluding the
Vsof those States into the belief that the purpose of
government twos not peace at home, but conquest
abroed ; not the defence of their liberties, but the subju.
oast of the people of the United States.
The series of nunseuvres by which the impression was
created, the acts by which they were devised, and the per.
fidy by which they were executed. are already known.
Could it be supposed they would make openly their success
• subject of boast and self laudation in the executive rou-
se ? Fortunately for truth, Mr. Lincoln's message
minutely details the attempt to reinforce Fort Sumter, in
violation of the armistice, of which he confesses to have
been informed only by rumour too vague and uncertain to
create any attention. Hostile attempts to supply Fort
Sumter are admitted to have been undertaken with a 'mow-
ledge that their success was impossible. The seeding anotioe
to the Governor of South Carolina of the intended ruse
for the accomplishment of this object, and quoting from the
inaugural that there would be no conflict, unless these States
were the aggressors, and proceeding to declare that his con-
duct as in the past will be for the future, was in perform-
ance of this promise, which could not be misunderstood. In
defiance of our statement that he gave notice of the approach
of a hostile fleet, he charges these States with being the ma-
'silents of the Union. The world cannot misunderstand this
unfounded pretence.
Mr. Lincoln express concern that some foreign na.
time have so abated their action as if they supposed
the early destruction of the Union probable. He
abandons further disguise, and proposes to make
the contest abort and decisive, and confesses that
even en increased force Is demanded, These enormous pre-
pirations are a distinct avowal that to United States are
engaged 111 a conflict with • great andpowerful nation, and
are compelled to abandon the pretense of dispersing rioters
and suppressing insurrection, and are driven to the ac-
knowledgment that the Union is dissolved. They recognise
the separate existence of the Confidante States by Wks°.
tion, by embargo, and Meeloode, by which all communiothics
between the two is cut off. They repudiated the foolish ides
that the inhabitants of the Confederacy are still citizens of the
United Stets, for they are now waging an indiscriminate
war upon them with a savage ferocity unknown to toodern
civilisation. Mr. Davis then compares the present invasion
to that of Great Ibitais, in 1781, but which was conducted
in • more civilised manner. Mankind will shudder at the
outrages committed on defenceless females by those pre-
tending to be our fellow citizen.. Who will depict the
senor with which they will regard the deliberate malignity
which, under pretext of suppressing an insurrection, makes
special war upon sick women antichildreo by carefully devised
measures to prevent their obtaining medicines necessary
to their cure The sacred claims of humanity, respected
by all nations even in the fury of battle, by careful devia-
tion of attack from hospitals, are now outraged by the go-
vernment which pretends • desire to continue a fraternal
connection. Such outrages admit of so retaliation unless
the actual perpetrators are required. Taylor's mission to
Washington was to propose ea exchange of prisoners taken
on the privateer Savannah, and to inform Mr. Lincoln
that we are determined to check all borbarities on
prisoners of war by such retaliation as will
effectually put an end to such practices. Mr.
Lincoln's promised reply has not been received. Re-
ference is made to the peculiar position existing between
the Confederate government and the States usually termed
border Slave States, which the message say, cannot be
properly withheld from notice. Our people are animated
by the sentiments towards the inhabitants of those States
which found expression in your enactment refusing to
consider them enemies, or to authorise hostilities against
them. That a large portion of those States regard us as
brethren, and if unrestrained by the actual presence of large
armies, the subversion of the civil authority and
declaration of martial law, would, some of them at least,
joyfully unite with us. But that they are with almost
entire unanimity opposed to the prosecution of the war
waged against us is a fact of which daily recurring events
warrant the assertion. The President of the United States,
la refusing to recognise those of our late sister States in
refraining from an attack upon us, justifies his refusal by
the assertion that the States have no other power than that
reserved to them in the Union by the constitution. This new
constitutional relation between the States and the general go-
verament is • fitting introduction to soother assertion of the
inemsge, that the executive possesses the power of suspend-
ing the writ of habeas corpus, and of delegating that power
to military commanders at discretion. Both these Pr
skims claim reap° it equal to that which is felt for ane=-
timid statement of opinion in the same paper, that it is
proper, in order to execute the laws, that the single law made
to meet the extreme tenderness of citizens for liberty, that
practically relieves more of the guilty than of the inno-
cent, should to a very limited extent be violated. We may
well rejoice that we have for ever severed our connectioa
with a government that thus tramples upon all principles of
constitutional libert and with • people in whose presence
such avowals could be paraded.
Our operations in the field will be greatly extended by
reason of this policy, which heretofore secretly entertained
in now avowed and acted upon by the United States,
The forces hitherto raised
ohiir:lnshNOVlld maple for the de-
fence of the States which • • y organised the Cooled.-
racy. With the exception these fortified islands, whose
defence is effectively aided by • preponderation of naval
force, the enemy has been driven completely out of those
States. These forces must, however, necessarily prove
inadequate, on account of the invasion by half • million
of men now proposed by the enemy, and a corresponding
lacteal.° of our forces now become' necessary. The menage
refers to the crops, which ars the most abundant in our
history. Many believe the supply adequate to two years'
consumption. Our citizen' manifest • laudable pride in
upholding their independence unaided by any resources
other than their own, sal the subscriptions to the lean pro-
posed by the government cannot fall short of fifty million
dollars, and will probably largely exceed that stun.

(Molt 001 OWN

BOSTON, U.S., JOLT 21.
"Forward ! March !" wan the order flashodfrom the
head-quarters of General M'Dowell at Arlington
Heights on the 15th, and the whole camp was alive
with preparation. The pent-up feelings of more
than 50,000 men eager and impatient for the con-
test burst forth in demonstrations of delight. The

army with flags floating in the breeze end bands
playing stirring martial music moved in their
several divisions towards Fairfax Court Rouse. The
" sacred soil" of Virginia echoed with the tread of
more than a hundred thousand feet. It is the
general opinion that General Scott was inclined to
postpone important movement% until autumn, and
thus make his preparations more complete, but the
clamour of public opinion and tho uneasiness of hie
troops induced him to yield his own judgment.
This is the current opinion, but how far it is reli-
able I have no evidence but rumour. There has
never before been so large a body of troops on this
continent as is now concentrated in Virginia. Be-
sides the main body of 55,000 under General