Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-12-05

The New Y ork Herald of the 10Th instant publishes
long editional severely criticsDg President Davss
last message to the Confederate Congress. The follow
ing extracts will give the general drift of the whole
article:
We published yesterday erienSO, by telegraph from
Washington the message Of Jefferson Davis to the re-
bel Congress, 10 session at Richmond. These OF
our readers VINO have perused it need not be told that it
weak ard inflated document and that notwithstand-
Jog some whstlng to keep his courage up the Con
ederate President betrays evident signs OF fear and
trembling at the spectes which haunt his guilty soul
He is weak in the knees, and weak in the back but it
is his policy put the appearance of strength and
cool courage. He has read history. The grand motto
of Danton-one of the most formidable leaders in the
French RevoIution-was audacity.'' 1t is essential
to III all revolutions, aud Jefferson Davis knows
how to assume virtue, if he has it not.
Ga the whole the massage may be regarded cav
ing in of the rebel COnederacy the first decided symp
tom of which exhibited recently by Gen Polk, al
Columbus, when he said to correspondent OF \ orh-
ern paper Let your man, Lincoln, come out and say
that tie bred Scott decision is right and that the
South shall have equal rights in the Territories, they
the rebels) would lay down their aud return tC
their homes" AS MIR. Lincoln has already declared his
purpose respect the Constitution and the supreme
Laws of the land including the decisions OF the Supreme
FCourt which gave Shareholders equal rights with
shareholders in the Territories be swcre by
solemn oath at the time of his Inauguration to carry
them into execution what further coming out a." Cal
Inc b1SnOp-UeueFal rtQ 1lFe
1t is worthy of remark, that while the rebel Pres
dent is iubiant succession of glorious victore
at Bethel, Bull Run, Manassas, Springfield Lexington
Leesburg and Belmont. be takes good care to make
mention of the defeats in Western Virginia. The recen
subecton of two counties in Eastern Virginia, the dc
feat of bis at Fort Hatteras, North Carolina
at Port Royal South Carolina. the effect Of which
TO deprive his buccaneers of their places of refuge
to render them harmless in future the ocean, beside
, the acquisition by the Union army of such importan
stratagetcal points.
This message is dying kick of the Confederacy.-
Though Davis pretends that this bogus money freel
passes everywhere at the South, it gold tia
there is abundant supply of food that the rebel
can manufacture for themselves not only
the munitions of war, but clothing and all that the
need, and that therefore, there is limit to t
= length of time they will be able to carry on the wa
against the North yet it is evident that this is but th
game of bluff so well known down the Mississippi, an
that his last desperate hope is in the Intervention of FL
ropean powers to whose interests and fears be adroi
# appeals.
He reminds them that if the and the blockad
should continue much longer the planters may cease
cultivate cotton for expectation and supply of tina
i staple may be permanently cut off from Europe furtt
err and the blockade, throwing the Southern people
their own resources, and compelling them to manufat
for themselves, the Southern trade may be lost o
ever to the manufacturing nations at the other side
the Atlantic Indeed be is particularly savage tb,
they have already broken the blockade limiting nv
teriousy at some breach of faith.