Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-07-27
Synopsis of President Davis Message.

I COuUueIH essary to call the public attention to sucf facts as have occurred during the recess anc to matters connected with the public defense I congratulate Congress on the recent acces- sions to the Confederacy of free and equal sovereign States. Ithas been deemed adVisa ble to remove the several departments, with their archives, to Richmond, to which place Congress has already removed the seat of gov | ernment.
 After the adjournment of Congress the ag- gressive movements of the enemy required prompt and energetic action. The accnmula- tion of the forces of the enemy OF the Poto- mac sufficiently demonstrated that his efforts were directly against Virginia, and from no point could the necessary measures for her defense and protection be so efficiently direc- ted as from her own capital.
 The rapid progress of the last few months has stripped away the veil. behind which the real policy and purposes of the Lincoln Gov ernmenthad been previously concealed. They are now fully revealed The message of their president and the action of their congress du- ring the present session confirms the intention of snbugating the seeding States by war, a folly which is equaled only by its wickedness
 "a war which, while it cannot possibly at tain it's proposed result, will inAct it's due ca lamities upon US, but will also fall with dou- ble severity upon themselves.
 Commencing in March last with an affecta- tion of the ignorance of the Secession of sev- en States which had organized Confederate Government; persisting in April, in the ab- surd assumption of the existence of a riot which was to be dispersed by a posse comita- tus. In the succeeding months there were false representations that these States intend- ed an offensive war; in spite of conclusive ev- idence to the contrary. furnished, Fas we'll by official action as by the basis of our Consti- tuition.
 The President of the United States and his advisers, succeeded in deceiying the people of these States into the belief that the purpose of this government was not peace at home, | but conquest abroad-not the defense of her 1 liberties, but subversion of the United States l A series of manGvres, by which a false | impression was created; the acts which were devised, and the perfdy by which they were executed are already. known. Could it be supposed that they would make their success openly a subject of boasting and self-Iaudation l in the message of their executive? Fo!tanate- 1 y for the truth of history, Lincoin's message infinitely details the attempt to reinforce Fort i Pickens, in violation of the armistce of which he confesses to have been informed. 1 only by Tumors too vague and uncertain to attract attention.
 1 The hostile expedition dispatched to supply l Fort Sumpter, was admitted to have been un- dertaken with knowledge that it's success was impossible; the sending of notice to the Governor of South Carolina of the intention to use force to accomplish this object; and l quoting from his inaugural, that there would be no conflict unless those States were the ap- gressors, he proceeds to declare that his prom lse Tn the past as well aS for the future was 1 the performance of this promise, which could not be misunderstood. In defiance of his own statement that gave notice of the approval of a hostile fleet, he charges these States with 1 being assailants of the United States. The world cannot misunderstood this unfounded pretence. MT. Lincoln expresses concern that some foreign nations so shaped their actions as though they supposed there would probably be an early destruction of the Union He abandons further disguise, and proposes to make the contest short and decisive. Even the increased force demanded by these enor- nous preparations was distinct avowal that the United States had engaged in a conflict with great and powerful nation, and were compelled to abandon the pretense of disper- sing rioters and suppressing insurrections, and were driven to the acknowledgment of the Union being dissolved They recognize the separate existence of the Confederate States by the lnterdiction of an embargo; they block ade all commerce between the two. and thus repudlate the foolish idea that the inhabitants of the COnfederacV are still citizens of the United States. They are now waging an in discriminate war upon the Confederate States. with savage ferocity unknown to modern civilization.
 MT. Davis compares the present invasion to that or Great Britain made in 1781, which was conducted on more civilized princiDles
 Mankind will shudder at the outrages com mitted upon defenceless females by those pre- tending to be felIow-citizens, depicting the horror with which they regard deliberate ma lightly, which, under the pretext of suppress Ing instruction. makes special war upon sick women and children by carefully devised mea- sures to prevent their obtaining medicines ne- cessary to their cure.
 The sacred claims of humanity are respect ed by all nations even in the fury of battle. By careful deviation they at ack hospitals, now outraged by a Government which pre- tends to desire to continue paternal connec- tions. Such outrages admit of no retaliation unless the actual perpetrators could be cap- tured.
 Mr. Taylor's mission to Washington was to propose an exchange of prisoners taken on the prlVateer Savannah, and to inform MT. Lin coln of determined purpose to check all bar oarltles on prisoners of war, and by such re- tallatlon to effectually put an end to such prac- tlces. MT. Lincoln promises reply, but it has not yet been received
 In reference to the peculiar relation which exists between this Government and the States usually termed Border Slave States (which cannot properly be withheld from notce) the hearts Of our people animated by sem timents towards the inhabitants of these States, Wnlch found an expression in your enactment; refusing to consider them as enemies. or to authorize hostilities against them-that large portion of the people of these States re- gard us as brethren, if they were unrestrained