The national Republican., 1861-07-23
BY TELEGRAPH.
MESSAGE OE JEFF. DAVIS TO THE
CONGRESS AT RICHMOND.

Ne,p Orleans, July 20.-Davis' inaugural
message called attention to the causes which
formed the Confederacy, and, he says, it is now
only necessary to call attention to such facts
as have occurred during the recess, and to mat
ters connected with the public defence. He
congratulates the Congress on the accession to
the Confederacy of three equal sovereign States
The several States deemed it advisable to re.
move the departments and archives to Rich.
mond, to which place Congress had already re.
moved the seat of Government.
After the adjournment Of the last Congress,
the aggressive movements Of the enemy in.
duced prompt and energetic action. The &C.
cumulation Of the enemy's force on the Poto.
mac sufficiently demonstrated that his efforts
we're to be directed against Virginia, aud from
no point could her defence and protection be SO
efficiently directed as from her own capital
The rapid progress Of the last few months
has stripped the veil behind which, the true
policy and purposes of the Lincoln Government
had previously been concealed. It il now full
ly revealed. The message of their President
and the action Of their present Congress con.
iess their intention of subjugating the seeded
States by war Of folly, equslled only by its
wickedness,-a war by which it is impossible
to attain the proposed result, whilst it's dire ca.
lamites will fall doubly severe on themselves.
Commencing last March with an affectation of
ignorance of the secession of seven States,
which had organized Confederate Govern.
ment persisting, in April, in the absurd as.
sumption of the existence Of riot, which was
dispersed by posse comitatus; continuing in
several successive months in false representa-.
tions that these States intended an offensive
war in spite of the conclusive evidence to the
contrary furnished as we'll by official action as
by the basis Of the Constitution, the President
OF the United States and his advisers succeed.
ed in deceving the people of those States into
the belief that the purpose Of this Government
was not peace at home, but conquest abroad
not the defence Of our liberties, but the subver.
sion Of the people OF the United States. The
series Of man9uvres by which this impression
was created, and which we're devised in perfdy,
are already known. Fortunately for the truth
Of history, Mr.. Lincoln's message infinitely de.
tails the attempt to reinforce Fort Pickens in
violation of an armistice which he confessed he
had been informed of only by rumors too vague
and uncertain to create any attention. The
hostile expedition dispatched to supply Fort
Sumter was admitted to have been undertaken
with knowledge that its success was impossi.
BILE, the sending of notice to the Governor Of
South Carolina of an intention to use force to
accomplish the object, and quoting from his
inaugural that there would be no conflict un.
less these States were the aggressora.
He proceeds to declare that his conduct, as in
the past will be in the future. This PROMISE
which could not be misunderstood, gave notice
of the approach Of hostile fleet. He charges
these States with being the assailants of the
Union. The world cannot misunderstood this
unfounded pretence.
MIR. Lincoln expresses concern lest some for.
eign nation had so shaped its action as if it sup
posed an early destruction of the Union was
probable, and he abandons further disguise,
and proposes to make the contest short and de-
cisive. He confesses even, by an increased
force and these enormous preparations, that the
United States is engaged in conflict with
great and powerful nation. He is compelled to
abandon his pretence of dispensing rioters and
suppressing insurrection. He is driven to the
acknowledgment that the Union is dissolved.
He recognises the separate existence of the
Confederate States by interdiction, embargo,
and blockade. All commerce between the two
sections is cut off; repudisting the foolish idea
that the inhabitants of the Confederate States
are still citizens of the United States. Davis
compares the present invasion with that Of
Great Britain in 1881, but which was conducted
in more civilized manner. Mankind will
shudder at the outrages now being committed
on detenceless females by those pretending to
be fellow.citizens who depict the horror with
which they regard deliberate malignity, and
which, under the preteZt of suppressng insur.
rsction, make special war upon sick women and
children by Withholding the medicines neces.
sary for their cure. The sacred claims OF hu.
manty respected by all nations, even in fury CT
battle, by careful deviation of attack on hos,
pitfalls, are now outraged by the Government
which pretends to desire continuance Of fra.
ternal connections Such outrsges admit of no
retaliation, unless the actual perpetrators are
conquered.
Mr.. Taylor's mission to Washington was for
the purpose of effecting an exchange of the
prisoners taken on the privateer Savannah.
He informed Mr.. Lincoln of our determined
purpose to check all barbarities on prisoners of
war by such retaliation as would offectually put
en- end to such practices. Mr.. Lincoln's
promised reply is not received.
In reference to the peculiar relations exist.
ing between this Government and the States
usually termed the Border slave States, some of