The national Republican., 1861-11-25
pREsIp sNr pAvIs's HEssAGE.


This document. transmitted to the Conted"
rate Congress on the 10Th instant, (rrprinted
on the outside Of this paper), conveys very t,
lie inform ,tion In detail as to the operations #
the Richmond Government. In that particular,
it conforms undoubtedly to the Intentions OF
the writer. 1t will be in secret session that
tho rebel Congress will receive and consider
the exhibits from heads of Departments. o. the
number of troops In the field. expenditure.
issues Of Treasury notes, &c. Upon all tbes'
points, 1t is not intended that outside barba
risns" shall receive much enlightenment
Upon the point Of finance, Mr.. Davis, with.
out making any disagreeabs revelations as to
the extent he has already gone In that dlrec
ton does nevertheless sufficiently beiray tba
it is chiefly upon Treasury notes. entering into
general circulation as money, that he has been
ru ming the machine OF the Confederate Gov
ernment. 1t Is undoubtedly very considera
BILE resource, where, as In this case, the circu.
lation Of such notes is sustained, not merely by
their receivability for Confederate and Sta =
taxes, but by the consent Of banks and other
due. This consent is compulsory and will ruin
the banks and the capitalists, but 1t has the DE-
sired effect for the time being The COME :
crate Treasury can really coin money, so long
as Treasury notes will circulate as money,
which has thus far been measurAbly true. BuD
this resource has limits which must be soon
reached, and cannot be availed Of but once.
Mr.. Davis goes into more detail about mai
facilities, or rather the want Of them, than
about anything else. The excuse he gives, by
way of reconciling his subjects to ths loss .
their old privileges IN that respect Is a very
fimsy one He says that 1t takes time to estab
lish the machinery of u system Of contracts aud
post Offices which -hall carry letters and news
papers to every hamlet. The truth ls, the sys
TEN was already established to the hand Of the
Confederate Government. The real difficulty
was In paying the mail contractors the enOr.
nous excess above the receipts, heretofore
made good out of the National Treasury. Here
was the rub. Que week would suffice to put
everything in operation upon the old scale, il
Texas, for example, If there was anybody to
pay the round half million of dollars which it
cost the United States, every year, to carry the
mails there. II the Son hern people do not
now get heir letters and papers as they previ-
ously did, 1t is because they now have no North
to saddle the expense upon. If the contract
ors fail, as Mr.. Davis says they do to perform
little or no pay, and that is because the Con
federate Government has hardly means enough
to carry on war. 1t is the lack of money whic
Is the difficulty.
Mr.. Davis expression of the d" cOntenptlou,
astonishment," with which he and his fellow
conspirators regard the loyal States, will moi
conceal the truth. 1t IL undoubtedly with
"astonishnlent," that the enc gy and p"rsistencs
Of the loyal States are regarded, but Il is ar
astonishment In which contempt fo ms no in
gredient. II Is, on the contrary. ON astonsll
ment, which has excited respect, where nothin.
but contempt existed before. And it is u r..
spect which will deepen with every succeedin.
day and month. The oligarchy, instead of be
ing the master race OF this country. rs they
have fattered themselves they were, Gre to be
reduced to obedience to the law, and by m"r
of uuanimty and seadiness, as have been mad,
by the loyal States. Undoubtedly, Mr. Davi,
10 astonlshed but be respects the North iuiinite
ly more to-day than he did one year ago
One paragraph In this message looks as i
Mr.. Davis was leaning little to the black
flag" ideas said to be current in South Caro-
lea. Mr.. Davis Is somewhat obscure, but be
seems to threaten onr prisoners with death, |
we incite srvils ,oar,' and to lib rate savel
as our armies advance, may bs melting scroll
,oar," according to his idens. But whatever be
meaus, he may depend upon it, that the Ameri
OF any Sort from such quarter.
His lamentations over the Invasion OF British
rights, in the seizure of Slidel and Mason
seem out of place. Nobody pretends that any
rights, either of those two WORTHLESS, or OF the
Richmond Government, have been violated.
Ii there Is complaint to be made anywhere, II
is by the British Government, Of which Mr..
Davis need not make himself The superluou.
and undesired champion.
Mr. Davis could not of course, conclude A
State paper Of this character, without an alu-
sion to the paramount importance to mankind
of having cotton raised by the two and half
millions of negroes, more or less in the cotton
States. He sees clearly that for every negro
thrown out Of that employment, four human
beings elsewhere must lose their present occu.
pations. That hard necessity may exist, but
we are 80 obtuse as not to see 1t. II Mr. Davis
negroes cease to produce cotton, will be pro
duced elsewher', and new and profitable in
dustry will be opened TO other nations. That
is precls ly what is happening in India ard
elsewhere. Nobody is thrown out of employ
employment. The cotton plantera on the Cult
are naturally slow to p coguize so disasreeable a
faCt but they will recognize II a. last, although