Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-07-27
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PRESIDENT DAVIS MESSAGE.

RICHMOND, July ZU.-Ihc following is
the Message OF the President to the Congress
of the Confederate States Of America.
Gentlemen My Message, addressed to you
ut tho commencement of the session, contain
cd such full information of the state of the
Confcdcracy MS to render it necessary that [
should now do more than call your attention
to such important facts as have occurred du-
ring the recess, and to matters connected with
public defence.
l have again to congratulate you on the ac.
cession Of new members to our Confederation
of free and equal sovereign States. Our
loved and honorcd brethren of North Carroll
na and Tennessee have consuliatcd the ac-
ton forcsccn and provided for at your last
session, and have had the qualification of
announcing, by proclamation, in conformity
with law, that those States were admitted into
the Confcderacy The people of Virginia
also, by majority previously unknown in her
history, have ratified tho action Of her Con-
vcntion, uniting her fortunes with ours -
The States Of Arkansas, North Carolina and
Virginia have likewise adopted tho Perma-
ncnt Contribution of the Confederate States,
and no doubt is entertained of its adoption by
Tennessee at the election to be held carly
next month. | deemed it advisable to direct
the removal of the several Executive Depart
mcnts, with their archives, to this city, to
which you had removed the scat of Govern
mcnt
Immediately after your adjournment, the
aggressive movements of the enemy required
prompt and energetic action. The accunu-
lation of his forces on the Potomac sufficiently
demonstrated that his efforts we're to be di-
rcctcd against Virginia, and from no point
could the necessary measures for her defence
and protection be SO efficiently directed as
from her own Capitol. The rapid progress of
events for the last few weeks has fully suiliccd
to strip the veil from behind which the true
policy and purposes Of the Government Of
the United States had been previously con
ccaled-thcr odious features now stand fully
revealed. The message of their President,
and the action of their Congress during the
present month, confess the intention of sub
.iugatng these States by a war whose folly is
cqualcd only by its wickcdncss-a war by
which it is impossible to attain the proposed
result; whilst its dire calamities arc not to be
avoided by us, will fall with double severity
on themselves. Commencing, in March last
with the aifcctation of ignoring the secession
of the seven Statcs which first organized the
Government; pcrsisting, III April, in the idle
and absurcd assumption Of the existence of
riot, which was to be dispersed by posse CO.
m'f"fH$ and containing in successive months
the false representation that these States in
tended offensive war, in spite Of the conclusive
evidence to the contrary furnished rs well by
official action as by the very basis on which
this Government is constituted the President
Of the United States and his advisers succeed
cd in dccciving the people of those States
into the belief that the purpose of this Gov
crnment was, not peace at home, but conquest
abroad; not the defence Of its own liberties,
but the subvcrson of those of tho people of
the United States The series of manruvrcs
by which this impression was created, and the.
art with which they were devised, and the per
hdy with which they were executed were al
ready known to you, but you could scarcely
have supposed that they would be openly
avowcd. and their success made the subject of
boast and self laudation in Executive message
Fortunately Tor the truth Of history, wherever
the President of the United States details
with mlnutcncss tl.c attempt to reinforce
Fort Sumter, in violation of an armsticc
Of which he confrsses to have bccn informed,
but only 10y rumors too vague and uncertain
to fix attention. the hostile expedition .dcs-
patched to supply Fort Sumter is admitted to
have been undertaken with the knowledge
that its success was impossible The sending
of Il notice to the Government Of South Caro-
lima Of his intention to use force to accomplish
his object, and then quoting from his inaugur-
al address the assurance that there could he no
conflict unless these States were aggressive
and we were tho aggrcssors; he proceeds to
declare that his conduct, as just related by
himself, was the performance of this promise,
so free from the power of ingenious sophistry,
rs that the world should not be able to msun-
dcrstand it, and in dclinncc of his own state
mcnt that he gave notice of the approach of
the hostile fleet, he charges these States with
becoming the assailants of the United States
without a gun in sight or IN expectancy to re-
turn their fire, save only the few in the Fort
IIcis, indeed, fully justified in saying that
the case is so free from the power of ingenious
sophistry that the world will not be able to
misunderstood it, under the cover of this un
founded prctence that the Confederate States
are tho assaiants. Tho high functiopary,
after expressing his concern that some foreign
nations had so shaped their action as if they
supposed the early destruction Of our national
Union was probable, abandons MI further
disguise and proposes to make this contest n
short and decisive one, by placing at the con-
troll of the Government for the work ut least
400,0 900 men and $J00,00O,O00. The Con-
grcss concurrng in tho doubt thus intimated
as to the suflicioncy of tho forco demanded,
has increased it to half million men. This
enormous preparations in men and money for