Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-07-23
synopsis of Jefferson Dnvios Mes

New ORLEANS, July 20.-Jeff. Davis's inau-
gural calls attention to the causes which formed
the Confederacy, and says it is now only neces-
sary to call attention TO such facts as have oc.
CURED during the recess, and to matters in con-
nection with the public defense. He congratu-
lates Congress on the accessions to the Confed-
eracy of the free and equal sovereign States,
mentioning several States, and says it was
deemed advisable to remove the several depart
ments and archives to Richmond, to which
place Congress has already been removed as the
seat Of government. s.,s .,..
After the adjournment of Congress the az.
gressive movements of the enemy required
prompt and energetic action. The accumula-
tion Of the enemy's forces on the Potomac sufi.
ciently demonstrates that his efforts are direct.
ed against Virginia, and from no point could
measures for her defense and protection be 80
efficiently directed as from his own capital.
The rapid progress OF the last few months has
stripped the veil behind which the true policy
and purposes OF the Lincoln Government were
previously concealed, which are now fully re.
vealed by the message of their President.
The action of their Congress at the present
session confesses the intention of subjugating
the seeded States by war, the folly of which is
equaled only by its wickedness, war BY which
it is impossible to attain the proposed results.
Whilst its dire calamities cannot be avoided BY
US, it will fall doubly severely on themselves.
Commencing in March last with an affecta-
tion OF ignorance of the secession of seven
States, which organized the Confederate Gov
ernment, persistipg in April In the absurd as
sumption of the existence Of riot, which was
to be dispersed by posse comitatus, and rep
RESERVATIONS, that these States intended an Of
fensive war, in spite Of conclusive evidence to
the contrary, furnishes, as well by the official
action of the President of the United States, that
he and his advisers have succeeded in deceiving
the people of these States into the belief that
the purpose of this Government is not peace at
home, but conquest abroad; not the defense Of
our Liberties. but the subversion of the people of
the United States.
message minutely details the attempt to rein.
force Fort Pickens in violation of the armistice
of which he confessed that he had been inform.
cd only by rumors too vague and uncertain to
create attention. The hostile expedition dis
patched to supply Fort Sumter is admitted to
have been undertaken with the knowledge that
Its success was impossible.
The sending of notice 10 the Governor of
South Carolina Of the intention to use force to
accomplish the object, and quoting from the in
augural, that there will be no conflict unless
those States were the aggressors. he proceeds to
declare that his conduct in the past as we'll for
the future was in the performance Of this prom.
ise, which could not be misunderstood ''Pst
He charges these States with being the assail-
ants Of the Union, and states that the world
cannot misunderstood this unfounded pretense.
Lincoln processes to make the contest sharp and
decisive, and processes that even an increased
force IL required.
These enormous preparations is distinct an.
nouncement that the United States is engaged
IN conflict with great and powerful nation,
and they are compelled to abandon the pretense
Of dispensing rioters and suppressing insurrec-
tioh, and driven to otheacknowledgmen that the
Union is dissolved. ,rtsth
They recognize the separate existence Of the
Confederate States, by the introduction of an
embargo and blockade by which, oil commerce
between the two 10 cut of. ~
He repudates tae foolish idea that the inhah-
itants OF the Confederacy are still citizens Of the