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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1862.

A Confederate congress is now become a settled
institution. Though hardly more than a year and
a half old, its acts are as regular and attract quite
as much attention as those of the North. The
Southern PRESIDENT'S Messages have also had the
great advantage of being perfectly lucid and intel-
ligible ; those who have to present readers with
the pith of the message, and to comment on its
meaning, are thankful enough to have the sen-
tences of JEFFERSON DAVIS rather than those of
Mr. LINCOLN to deal with. The Confederate
Congress met this time, as usual, at Rich-
mond—itself a great fact, after all that has been
done to capture it, and received the message of the
PRESIDENT. It is principally a business document,
but the tone of it is quietly confident. In his last
message, it will be remembered, he had to acknow-
ledge the reverses that had befallen the Confede-
racy in the Border States, and to point out the ad-
vantage of greater concentration of their forces, and
contracting their line of defence. He has now to
meet them with the brighter story of their unques-
tioned success in baffling and defeating the North.

DAVIS'S Messages have been so free, generally,
from anything like Yankee brag, losses have been
ro frankly acknowledged, and threatening intima-
tions have been so soon fulfilled, that we naturally
place some reliance on his more hopeful statements.
When, therefore, he states that the military events
have assured the friends of constitutional liberty of
their final triumph in the pending struggle against
despotic usurpation, we feel disposed to believe
that he does not say so without good ground for it.
Before, he considered that his strength lay in telling
the unwelcome truth, and in stimulating his people
by the knowledge of real dangers. Aire may assume
that he would not now hazard inducing a false
security if a reasonable hope did not exist. De-
nunciation of the war policy of the North must, we
suppose, occupy some sentences in a Southern Mes-
sage ; the Northern one will, we may be sure,
fully
repay all eloquence of that kind; and
ioconstitn-
tional liberty" means of course, in Southern lan-
guage, government with the free consent of the
governed ; just as in the north rebellion means
breaking away of " Sovereign States" from the
Federal compact without the consent of other
" Sovereign States " the inference from both
statements being, that federation of sovereign-
ties wont do. It is a device for weakening
the collective power of a people, as LOUIS NAPO-
LEON well knew when, unasked, he planned a con-
federacy for Italy.
Mr. DAVIS seems to have great hope, while
asking for power to extend the conscription,
that ho
shall not be obliged to do it. The isnens,„
levies
of the Federals may render it necessary that they
should extend the age of exemption from thirty.
five to forty-five. This would seem to show that
the South has pretty well exhausted the levies
supplied by the younger age, while the North, at
present, can order a large conscription without
extending the age. Mr. DAVIS, however, seems
quite confident that, at the worst, he shall be able
to meet fully the attacks of the North.

What fills him evidently with the greatest dis-
may, is the poor approaches made by the North
towards making the use they ought to do of the
negroes. With the denunciation of POPE'S and
BUTLER'S atrocious proclamations we shall all sym-
pathise; but his alarm at black enlistments shows
at once the really weak point of the South and the
supreme folly of the North. Not only does he de-
nounce the arming of slaves, but " a bill has been in-
troduced providing that a Federal army, composed
incongruously of white and black men, shall not
be entitled to the privileges of war. All negroes
belonging to such an army who, may be captured
\till be sold, and their commanders hung or shot!"
_beg to inform Mr. DAVIS that he could not take
a better course to arouse against him all the best
feeling 11 Europe. On this side the water the '
universal
heling is that of all persons the negroes
are just thee. who have a moral right to fight.
Universal vnn
8" —l3‘thY wrould go with the black man
fighting with the Nthite oppressor. We cannot