Shreveport daily news., 1861-07-25
m Executive message.

details with extreme minuteness tn,
attempt to reinforce Fort Pickens j,
violation of an armistice of which
he confessed to have been informed
but only by rumors or vague and
uncertain information to create at
tention.
The hostile expedition dispatched
to reinforce Fort Sumpter admitted
to have been overtaken, with q aknow1.
edge that it's success was impossi.
BILE.
The sending of the notice to the
Governor of South Carolina, of his
intention to use force in accomplish
ing this object, and then quoting
from the inaugural address that there
could be no conflict unloss those
States were the aggressors. He
proceeds to declare that his duty
so free from the power of ingenious
sophistry as that the world should
not be able to misunderstood.
And in the defiance of his own
statement that he gave notice of the
approach of a hostile fleet, he char
ges these States with being the as.
sailants of the United States, with
out gun in sight or expectancy to re
turn their fire, save few in the
fort. He is, indeed, fully justified in
saying that the cause is so free from
the powers of ingenious sophistry
that the world will not be able to
misunderstood it under cover of this
unfounded pretence that the Confed-
crates are tho assailants.
That high functionary after cx-
pressing his concern that some of
the foreign nations had so shaped
their actions, as if they supposed the
early destruction of our National
Union probable, abandons all further
disguise and proposes to make the
contest a short and decisive one bv
placing at the control of the Govern
ment for the work at least 100000
men; ;S4OO,O 100000. The Congress con-
curing in the doubt thus intimated
as to the sufficiency of the force de-
manded has increased it to half a
million men. The enormous prepar-
ations in men and money for the con-
duct Of the war on scale more gigan-
ic than any which the New World
has ever witnessed. is a distinct
avowal in the eyes of civilized man
that the United States are engaged
in conflict with great and pow
crful nation. They are at last COM
pelled to abandon the pretencc of be-
ing engaged in disposing of rioters
and suppressing Instructions, and
are driven to the acknowled cement
that the present Union has been dis
solved.
They recognize the separate exis-
;ence of the Confederate States bv in
embargo and blockade on
Ill commerce between them and the !
United States, not only by Sea; but by
and, not only in shi ps but in cars,
lot only with those who bear arms,
'ut with the entire population of the
States. Finally they
,ave repudiated their foolish consent
hat the inhabitants of this Confede-
acy are still citizens of the United |
States, for they are waging an indis-
war upon them all, with
avage ferocity unknown to modern
Utilization. In this war rapine is
he rule. Private residences, inpeace-
ul rural retreats, are bombarded and
urnt. Grain crops in the field are
onsumed by the torch, and when the
orch is not convenient careful labor
) bestowed to render complete des-
Of every article Of use OR orn-
ment remaining in private dwell
ags, after their inhabitants have fled
rom the outrages Of brutal soldiery.
In 1881, Great Britain, when in
aiding her revolted colonies, took
ossession of every district in the
ountry. Fortress Monroe, now oc-
upled hy tho troons of tho IT,;+od