Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-11-20

PRESIDENT DAVIS MESSAGE


RICHMOND, November iJ.-The retrospect is
such as to fill the hearts CT the people with graf
itude for the providential interposiiOn in then
behalf The manufacturing industry OF the
! Confederate States was never so prosperous.
| The necessities Of the times have called into cX-
~istence new branches Of manufactures, and have
given an impulse to those heretofore in operation.
Various manufacturing ueoessaTles and comforts
within ourselves. will increase as the conflict con
tinues. Gradually we are becoming Independent.
The world will supply military stores and MUM
tons. The operations Of the army are soon TO
be partially interrupted by winter, but it has
afforded protection to the country, and has shed
luster on cur arms through trying y~icissiudes.
/ More than one arduous campaign. emitting the
brave volunteers to praise and gratitude in the
conflict, extends from the Chesapeake to the
Missouri and Arizona yet calls from the re-
hottest point for military aid have been met with
promptness enough to avert disaster and roll
back invasion.
After a seven months war the enemy has failed
to extend a contemplated occupancy upon our
soil Instead Of conquest they have been driven
to a defensive war. 4 fair comparison between
the North aud the South demonstrates that the
Confederate States are relatively stronger than
when the struggle commenced. The people of
Missouri conducted the war in the face ofun-
paralleled difficulties, showing q spirit and
achieving a success worthy themselves and
7 fl... Gam. E..frrTr to-. loo L..
come the .Leatcr Of hostilities. The enemy
refused TO acknowledge her right TO neu-
traiity, and invaded her soil for the purpose
Of attacking US. Our armies have marched there
to repel the enemy and prevent their accumu-
lation at strategic points, which was justified by
selt-ietense, and a desire TO aid the Kentucky
army, which was chiefly instrumental in prose
cutting the contest, in many effective ends pro
p]ortioned to its means.
The transportation Of tine mails and Difficult
ties are developed in the report of the Postnas-
ter-General, whose zeal, integrity, and ability
has been taxed to the utmost extent. Some of
these difficulties may be overcome in lime, but
others by legislation.
The financial system has worked well, and
has enabled tho government 60 borrow money
without interest. Treasury notes are fast be
coming a circulating medium. For the prosecu-
ton of the war it is Indispensable that the means
of transporting troops in such a manner as not to
interrupt commercial Intercourse of the two main
systems, through the transportation between the
North and the South, one by way Of Richmond
along the seaboard, and the other through
Western Virginia and New Orleans. A third
might be secured by completing a link forty
miles in length between Danville and Green's
boro, n. c., whichwould give a through route to
the center of the Contedoracy and give access to a
population and military resources from which we
are now debgrred. 1t would increase the safety,
capacity and means of transporting men and
supplies. This road is indispensable in the prose
cution Of the war. BY outstanding ofour means.
and the iudici0us use Of our resources it is
difficult for us to put a limit to the period
The reconstruction he seeks, becomes daily more
impossible. Separations final for independence ;
we will accept no alternative. For their hostr
tiles and commandment Of villages without notice,
destroying women and children, and selecting
night to surprise them efectuaLy; fitting out
their naval expeditions for the confessed purpose
OF plumber and TO incite a 5aryile iusurrectiou,
they must expect to be treated as outlaws and
enemies of mankind. They have extended their
injuries to other jurisdictions. Our commission
eIs to foreign courts have been seized by a cap
tain Of a United States ship of war on
a British mail steamer on her voyage
from the Neutral Spanish port of Havana
to England, while under the protection of a ueu-
trail nations flag, violating the rights Of an en-
bassy, which is held sacred even by barbariaus
Our ministers were as much under the iurisdic-
ton OF Great Britain beneath its flag as if on its
soil. They might as well have seized them in
the streets Of London. If they had been crimi-
mails, they had no right to arrest them, unless
according to the provisions Of the eXtraditiOn
treaty. We have sought from abroad no aid,
nor alliances offensive or defensive have
been asked or recognized for a place in the tami-
ly Of nations without Offering d fair equivalent
In seeking to establish diplomatic relations We.
were only eudeavoring to place our Intercourse
under regulations Of public law. The advan-
tages of intercourse are mutual, and We have
the right to expect a recognition Of the princi-
pc. Blockaaes, to DO binding must be effective
aud generally enforced.
have caused evidence to be collected rs to
the iusuffcieucy Of the blockade, to be laid
before such governments as shall afford us the
means Of being heard. Not dependent on that
enforcement for the successful prosecution Of the
war, q long continued blockade might, by diver
sion Of labor and investment Of capital in other
e~mploymeuts, so diminish the supply of staples
as to bring ruin upon the interests Of foreign
countries, which are dependant upon that staple.
For every labOrer devoted TO the culture Of
cotton, four times as many elsewhere are forced
to change their occupation. Let MS continue
the struggle with an humble dependence upon
Providence.