The Van Buren press., 1861-07-31

Capt. Allen and Lieut. Pomeroy were
killed. Col. Norton. of 21st Ohio regi-
ment, badly wodndsd and captured.
Presidents Messages.
Rlcunosp. July 90. 1861.
Genefemas Of the Cssfsdersse States Of America
Ny message addressed to you. at the commence
ment Of the last session contained such full inor
nation Of the state Of the Confederacy As to rem
der 1t unnecessary. that should now do more than
call your attention b such Important facts as have
occurred during the recess, and the matters con-
nected with the public defence.
hare again to congratulate you on the accession
Of new members to Confederacy Of free and
brethren Of North Car.linaand Tennessee have
summated the action forcseen aud provided for at
your last session. have had the qualification of
announcing by Proclamation, in conformity with
the law, that these States admitted into the
Confederaey. The people of Virginia also, by a
majority previously ysunknown in her history have
ratified the action cf her convention, uniting her
fortunes with ours. The States Of Arkansas,
North Carolina and Virginia have likewise adopt
ed the permanent constitution of the Confederate
States ana doubt is entertained for its adoption
by Tennessee at tie election to be held early next
month.
deemed it advisable to direct the removal of
the several executive departments with their ar
chives to this city. to which you had removed the
| seat of gOvernment- Immediately after the ad-
journment. aggressive movements Of the enemy re-
CURED prompt and energetic action. The accumu-
lation Of his forces on the Potomac sufficiently de-
monssrated that, his efforts were to be directed
against Virginias and from point could the nee
essary means for her defense and protection be so
effectively dAIbd a. from her own capital The
saRd psogrss y events for the last few weeks has
true policy purposes of the government of the
United Stas0 hsen previously concealed.
Iheir odfcus fltures now stand fully revealed.
The message ofstheir president. and the action of
their Congress- during the present month, confess
es their intention Of the suugation of these States
by war, by which it is impossible to attain the
proposed result while its dire calamities not to be
avoided by US, will fall with double severity ON
themselves.
Commencing in March last, with the affectation
Of ignoring the secession of seven States, which
first organized this government, persistne in an
idle and absurd assumption of the existence of a
riot, which was to be dispersed by posse comssta-
tns, continuing successive months the faIse rem
resentaton, that these States intended an offensive
war; in spite Of conclusive evidence to the contrary
furnished as well by the official action as bv the
very basis on which this government is constituted
The president of the United States and his adyis
States into the belief that the purpose of this
ernment was not peace at home but conquest abroad
not the defence Of its lit critics but the sub
version of those Of the people of the United States
The series OF maneuvres BY which the impression
was created. the art with which they were devised
and the peridy with which they were executed
are already known to you, but you could scarcely
have supposed that they would be openly ayowed
and their suceess made the subject of boast. and
self laudation in. an executive message. Fort,,-
ffarf fFnf AM hSffs Al
of the United States details with minuteness the
attempt to reinforce Fort Pickens in violation of
an armstice, Of which he confessed to have been
informed, but only by rumors, too vague and un-
certain to fix attention OF the hostile expedition
to supply Fl. Sumter, it is admitted to have been
undertaken with the knowledge that its success
was Impossible. The sending of q notice tn the
Governor of South Carolina, of his (Lincoln's) in
tention to useforce to accomplish his object, and
quoting, from his inaugural address the assurance
that there could be conflict unless these States
were the .aggressors, he proceeds to declare his
conduct Just related by himself was the perform
ance OF promise. So far from the power of inee-
nious sophistry. as that the world should not be
able to misunderstand it, and in defiance of his
own statement that he gave notice of the approach
OF the hostile heet, he. charges these States with
becoming the assailants of the United States who
were without gun in sight or in expectancy to re
turn their fre. save only few in the fort He is
fully Justified in say ing that the case is so free
from the power of ingenious sophstry that the
world viii not be able to misunderstood it. Under
the cover OF this unfcunded pretence that the Con
.ara' .ha asaailants that high fnpe-
honarY, after expressing his that some for
cign nations had shaped their action as if they
supposed the early destruction of the national union
probable. abandons all further disguise. and pro-
poses to make this contest short and decisive one
by placing at the control of his government for the
work, at least 400, 900 men, and 800 600 600
Congress, concurrlng in the doubt thus intimated
as to the sufhciency OF the force demanded has in
creased it to half million, 600, ,OOu,) of men.
These enormous preparations in men and money for
the conduct of war on a scale more grand than any
which the new world ever witnessed is a distinct
avowal IN the eyes Of civilized man. that the Unit
ed States are engaged in a conflict with a great and
powerful nation. They are at last compelled to
abandon the pretense OF being engaged in dispers
ing rioters, and snppressing Instructions and are
driven to the acknow Judgement that the ancient
union has been dissolved.
They recognize the separate existence of these
Confederate States, by interdictive embargo and
blockade of all commerce between them and tho
United States. not only by sea, but by land, not
only in ships, but in cars, not only with those who
bear arms, but with the entire population of the
Confederate States. Finally they have repudiated
the foolish conceit that the inhabitants of this Con-
!ederacy are st citizens OF the United States, for
they are waging indiscriminate war upon them ali
with a savage ferocity unknown in modern civili-
zation. In this war. rapine is the rule private
houses and beautiful rural retreats are bombsrded
anu ourht, gram crops IN the held, consumed
by the torch, and when the torch is not convenient
careful labor Is bestowed to render complete the
destruction OF every article of use and ornament
remaining in private dwellings, after their inhabi
tanfs nave Ned from the outrages of brute sol
diery. In i1ei, Great Britain, when invading the
revoited COLONIES took possession Of every district
and county nar Fortress Monroe, now occupied by
the troops Of she United States; the houses inhab
tied BY the people, after being respected and pro
secsea oy those invaders, are now pllaged and de-
their fellow citizens. Mankind will shudder at
the tales of II outrages committed on defencelees
females BY tn soldiers of the United States now
invading our homes yet these outrages are pro.,p
ted oy infanSd passions, madness and intoxica-
ton but whp shall depict the horror they enter
tain for the cooler and deliberate maliena1cv with
which, undeEthe pretext of supprsssing an insur-
recta0n, said by themselves to be upheld by a mi
monty only our people, makes special war on
ne sleks iAslsding women and children, by care
tuiiy devised easurss 70 prevent their obtaininx
the medisine{ necessary for their cure The ~.
ered clains q humanity. respected even dnr;n~ the
forY q sess Aeftas, BY careful diversiea Of st-
taek ftom hchit eontaining wounded enemiesis
arc out1sSsdX 6old blood. By Aeoyernment audJ
people. thst Fetend to desire confnuance of fra-
nal conuectiAs-all these outrages, must remain
unavenged b universal reprehension of mankind
in all cases eFe the act1al perpetrators of wrong
escape captut they admit Of no fetalliation. sThe
humanity Of inr people would shrink iustinctiyelv
from the bar idea Of urging like war upon the
sick, and thewomen and children of an enemy ::
but there ar,other savage practices. which have
been resortrdto by the government of the United
States: whicldo admit Of repression by retaliation