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

MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT DAVIS.

The Canada called off Cape Race for late tele-
grams from the United States, but, unfortunately,
no news despatch had been received at that station.
Private telegrams to the 26th of July, however,
report that no movement of importance had occurred
at the seat of war subsequent to the Canada's depar-
ture from Halifax.

The New York stock market was steady.
The screw steamer City of Baltimore, from Liver-
pool for New York, passed Cape Race, and landed
her news there on the 25th ult.

The Confederate Congress had assembled at Rich-
mond, and a telegram from that place, received is
the Northern States vta New Orleans, gives the
following summary of the Message of President
Davis:—

" Mr.llavis states that his inaugural called atten-
tion to the causes which formed the Confederacy,
and that it is now only necessary to call attention
to such facts as have occurred during the recess, and
to matters connected with the public defence. He
congratulates Congress on the accession to the Con-
federacy of other equal Sovereign States. It was
deemed advisable to remove the archives of the
several departments to Richmond, to which place
Congress had already removed the seat of Govern-
ment.

" The aggressive movements of the enemy
have induced prompt and energetic action. The
accumulation of the enemy's forces on the
Potomac has been sufficiently demonstrative
that his efforts are directed against Virginia, and
from no point could the necessary measures 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 are now fully re-
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their Congress during its present Session, confess
the intention of subjugating the seceded States by
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proposed result. While
be avoided by us, they will fall with
redoubled
severity on themselves.
~ Commencing in March last with an affectation
of ignorance of the secession of the seven States
which organised the Confederate
per-
sisting in April in absurd Government ;
assumption of the exist-
ence of a riot which Was to be dispersed by a pose

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conzitatus ; continuing in successive months false
representations that the States intended offensive
war in spite of conclusive evidence to the contrary,
furnished as well by official action as by the basis
of the Constitution, the President of the United
States succeeded in deluding the people of those
States into the belief that the purpose of this Go-
vernment was not peace at home, but conquest
abroad ; not the defence of their liberties, but the
subjugation of the people of the United States.
" The series of manceuvres by which the impres-
sion was created, the acts by which they Were
devised, and the perfidy by which they were exe-
cuted, are already known. Could it be supposed
they would make openly their success a subject of
boast end self-laudation in the Executive Message ?

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" 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 under-
taken with a knowledge that their success was
impossible. The sending a notice 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 conduct, as in the past will be for
the future, was in performance 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 assailants of the Union. The world cannot mis-
understand this unfounded pretence.
" Mr. Lincoln expresses concern that some foreign
nations have so shaped their action as if they sup-
posed the early destruction of the Union probable.
He abandons further disguise, and proposes to make
the contest short and decisive, and confesses that
even an increased force is demanded. These enor-
mous preparations are a distinct avowal that the
United States are engaged in a conflict with a great
and powerful nation, and are compelled to abandon
the pretence of dispersing rioters and suppressing
insurrection, and are driven to the acknowledgment
that the Union is dissolved. They recognise the
separate existence of the Confederate States by in-
direction, by embargo, and blockade, by which all
communication between the two is cut off. They
repudiate the foolish idea that the inhabitants of
the Confederacy are still citizens of the United.
States, for they are now waging an indiscriminate
war upon them with a savage ferocity unknown to
modern civilisation.

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" Mr. Davis then compares the present invasion
to that of Great Britain in 1781, but which Was
conducted in a more civilised manner.

" Mankind will shudder at the outrages com-
mitted on defenceless women by those pretending
to be our fellow-citizens: Who will depict the
horror with which they will regard the deliberate
malignity which, under pretext of suppressing
an insurrection, makes special war upon sick
women and children, by carefully devised
measures to prevent their obtaining medi-
cines necessary to their cure ? The sacred.
claims of humanity, respected by all nations, even
in the fury of battle, by careful deviation of attack
from hospitals, are now outraged by the Govern•
meat which pretends a desire to continue a frater-
nal connection. Such outrages admit of no retalia-
tion, unless the actual perpetrators are required.
Taylor's mission to Washington was to propose an
exchange of prisoners taken on the privateer Sa-
vannah, and to inform Mr. Lincoln that we are de-
termined to check all barbarities on prisoners of
war by such retaliation as will effectually put en
end to such practices. Mr. Lincoln's promised re-
ply has not been received.

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" Reference is made to the peculiar position exist-
ing between the Confederate Government and the
States usually termed border slave States, which,
the Message says, 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 authorise hostilities against them.
That a large portion of these States regard us as

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brethren, and, if unrestrained by the actual pre_
sence 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 warrants the
assertion. The President of the United States, ill
refusing to recognise those of our late sister States
refraining from an attack upon us, justifies his re-
fusal 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 Government $
a fitting introduction to another assertion of the
Message—that the Executive possesses the power of
suspending the writ of habeas corpus, and of delegatfi
ing that power to military commanders, at discretion-
Both these propositions claim respect equal to that
which is felt for an additional 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, so
that practically it relieves more of the guilty than.
of the innocent, should, to a very limited extent, be
violated. We may well rejoice that we have for
ever severed our connexion with a Government that
thus tramples upon all principles of constitutional
liberty, and with a people in whose presence such
avowals could be paraded.
,‘ Our operations in the field will be greatly a='
tended by reason of this policy, which, hitherto
secretly entertained, is now avowed and acted upon
by the United States. The forces hitherto raised.
have proved ample for the defence of the States
which originally organised the Confederacy. With
the exception of those fortified islands whose defence
is effectively aided by a preponderation of naval
force, the enemy has been driven completely out of
those States. These forces must, however, neces'
sarily prove inadequate, on account of the invasion
by half a million of men now proposed by the enemy'
and a corresponding increase of our forces Ilosf
becomes necessary.
" The Message refers to the crops, which aro the
most abundant in our history. Many believe the
supply adequate to two years' consumption. 1911 r
citizens manifest a laudable pride in upholding their
independence unaided by any resources other Olaf",
their own, and the subscriptions to the loan propose!
by the Government cannot fall short of 50,000,00ti0
dols., and will probably largely exceed that sum.

RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF SECOND

MONTHLY MAIL TO CHINA•

Majesty's Government for the restoration of the second
In consequence of the urgent applications made to her
monthly service between this country and China, which
det ermined was discontinued last month, it has been e ermined to re 4
establish this service.
Mills for Penang. Singapore, and China will accordingly
be made up in London on the morning of the 20th inst. for
via Southampton, and on the evening of the 26th
inst.
for
dispatch via Marseilles, and thenceforward the
dispatch,mails will be dispatched twice a month, as formerly, viz.
°li the
e mornings of the 4th and 20th .. via 3outhamptott'
On the evenings of the 10th and 26th . . via Marseilles.
As the revenue derived from the correspondence con-
veyed by the line of packets between Point de Galle and
Shanghae is sufficient to cover the cost of this double ser-
vice, the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have, by
warrant, directed that the postage upon such correspondence
shall be increased.
All letters, therefore, for Penang, Singapore, Hong-k°96."
and all other parts of China, Japan, Java, the PhilipPit'
Islands, Labuan, Borneo, Siam, Sumatra, and the Moine:
cas, will in future be charged with the following rates et
postage, viz. :

VIA SOUTHAMPTON.
FOR A LETTER.
Not exceeding # oz., Is.
Above oz. and not exceeding 1 oz., 2s.
Above 1 oz. and not exceeding 2 oz., 4s.

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ROWLAND HILL, Secreto,-
Gtonoral Post Office, August 3, 1861.
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