Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-07-25
Message Of the President.


/ States Of Amaica-
GESTLEaES
/ My Message, addressed to you at the com
nencament of the session, contained such full
! information al the state of the Confederacy
"a To render it unnecessary that should nov
do more than call your attention to such i'm
portant facts as have occurred during the re,
cess and to matters connected with the pub
lie defence.
have again to congratulate you on the
accession al new members to our CoDfedera
ton of free, equal and sovereign States. Onr
loved and honnred brethren OF North Caroil-
| ua and Tennessee have contaminated fbe ac-
ton. foreseen end provided Tor ut your last
session, and / have bad the qualification oil
announcing, by proclamation. in conformity
with Law, that those States were admitted In-
to the COnfsderacy.
The people of Virginia also, by majority
| previously unknown in her history, have Fat
| flied the action of her Convention. uniting
her fortunes with ours. The States OF Ar
| kansas. North Csr0ii8s sBd Virginia have
/ likewise adopted the permanent Constitution
| of the Confederate States and no doubt ia en-
tertained of Its adoption by Tennessee at the
| election IN be held early next month.
| deemed il advisable to direct the removal
| of the several Executive Departments. with
| their archives. TO this city, to which yOu had
| removed the seat OF government, Immediate
/ ly after your adjournment. The aggressive
movements of the enemy required prompt
! aud energetic action. The accumulation of
1 his forces TN the Potomac sufficiently demon
strated th st bis efforts were to be directed
| against Virginia; and from no point could
| the necessary measures for her defence and
protection be so efficiently directed rs from
| her Own capital.
The rapid progress Of events for the last
few weeks has fully snficed to strip the veil
behind which the true policy and purpose of
| the Government of the United States had
| lures now stand fully revealed; the message
of their President and the action of their
| Congress during the present month. confess
| the Intention of subjugating these States by
| q war, whose folly is equaled by its wicked
| ness a war by which il is impossible to at
| tain the proposed result, whilst its dire ca
lamities, not 10 be avoided by Us, will fall
with double severity on themselves.
Commencing in March last, with an aft, C
tation of ignoring the secession of the seven
States which first organized this government:
persisting in April in the idle and absurd as
sumption of the existence of riot which
was to be dispersed by posse eonaitdtus: con-
| tinuing in successive months the false repre-
sentatiOn that these States intended offensive
| war, in spite of the conclusive evidence TO
the contrary, furnished as well by official
tlOIi, dS ny Tue very OdSls Ou WuICu IN gov
eminent is constituted: the President of the
United States and his advisers succeeded in
deceiving the people of those States into the
belief that the purpose of this government
was not peace at home, but conquest abroad:
not the defence of its own liberties, but the
subversion of those of the people of the Uni
ted States.
The series of maneuvres by which this i'm
preston was created: the art with which
they were devised, and the perfidy with
which they were executed, were already
known to you; but you could scarcely have
supposed that they would be openly avowed.
and their success made the subject of boast
and self-laudation in an executive message.
Fortunately for the truth OF history, howev-
er, the President of the United States details
with minuteness the attempt to reinforce
Fort Pickens, in violation of armistice of
which he confesses 10 have been informed,
but "only by rumors too vague and upcer-
tain to fix attention." the hostile expedition
dispatched to supply Fort Sumter. admitted
to have been undertaken with knowledge
that its success was impossible; the sending
OF notice to the Governor of South Carolina
of his intention to use force to accomplish
his object: and then quoting from his lnaug-
ural Address the assurance that there could
be no Oufiict, unless these States were the
aggressors, be proceeds TO declare that his
Is Just ny ulIIlStll. Was u per-
Torrance of this promise, $50 free from the
power of ingenious sophistry az that the
world should not be able to misunderstood
it:' and in defiance of his own statement
that he gave notice of the approach of a hos
tile feet, he charges these States with becom-
ing the assailants of the United States, with
out gun in sight or an expectancy to return
their fire. save Only the few in the fort" He
is indeed fully justified in saying that the
trnu he Of i'm
sophistry, that The world will not be able 10
misunderstood it."
Under cover of this unfounded pretence
that the Confederate States are the assail
ante, that high functionary. after expressing
bis concern that some foreign nations 'hsd
so shaped their action as if they supposed
the early destruction of our National Union
was probable" abandous all further disguise
and proposes ''to make this contest a short
and decisive one" by placing at the control
of the government for the work. at least 400,-
900 men. and $500, 600, O00 The Congress,
cOncurring in the doubt thus minated as to
the suffieiency of the force demanded, has in
creased it to half million of men. These
enormous preparations in men and money,
for the conduct of war on scale more gigant-
ic than any which the new world has ever
Witnessed are distinct avOwsl, in the eyes
OF civilized man, that the United States are
full nation: they are at last compelled to
abandon the pretence of being engaged in
dispensing rioters and suppressing insurrec-
tons: and are driven to the acknowledgment
that the ancient Union has been dissolved
They recognize the separate existence OF
these Confederate States, by the inderdiction,
embargo and blockade o. all commerce be-
tween them and the United States, not only
by sea. but by land: not only in ships, but in
nnlu NTH thna.4 pCh n haar
but with the entire population of the Confed |
crate States. Finally. they have repudiated |
the foolish conceit that the inhabita mis- of this
are still citizens of the United /
States, for they are waging an indiscrimnate |
war upon them all, with savage ferocity IN |
known TO modern civilization. In this war.
rapine in the rule: private residences, in |
peaceful rural retreats, are bOmbarded and |
burnt: grain crops in the field are consumed |
by the torch: and when the torch is not con-
yenient careful labor is bestowed to render |
complete the destruction of every article of |
use or ornament remaining In private dwell
ings, after their inhabitants have fed from /
the outrages of brutal soldiery.
In 1871. Great Britain, when invading her |
revoited Colonies, took possession OF the |
very district of country near Fortress Mon
roe now occupied by troops of the United |
States. The houses then Inhabited by the |
people, AFTER DelnS respected ana projected
by avOwed invaders are now pillaged and |
by men who pretend that the VIC
tins ale their fellow-citizens.
Mankind will sbudder TO hear The tales of |
Dutrages committed on defenceless females |
by soldiers of the United States now invading |
BUR homes: yet these outrages are prompted |
by inflamed passions and the madness Of in
ioxication. But who shall depict the horror
With which they will regard the cool and de-
iberate malignity which. under pretext of
an instruction, said by them
selves to be upheld by minority only of our
.eople, makes special war on the sick, in
.luding the women and the children, by care