Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-08-01
Presidents Message.
RICHMOND, July 20, 1861.
Gentleme@of Me Congress ofMe
 Conteaerated States of Asney;co-

le RICHMOND, July 20, 1861. Il Gentleme~of Me Congress ofM
 It Contederated States of America- " My message addressed to you, at tn = commencement of the session, contained
 such full information of the state of tn,
 tConfodaacy, as to render it unnecessary : that | should now do more than call you attention to such important facts as hay, occurred during the recess, and to matters connected with the public defence.
 l have again to congratulate you on tht accession of new members to our Confeder acy of free, equal and sovereign States. Oul loved and honored brethren of North Caro- lima and Tennessee have consummated the
 action foreseen and provided for at your last
 session. l have had the qualification of
 announcing by proclamation, in conformity
 with law, that these States were admit
 ted into this Confederacy. The people of
 Virginia also, by a majority previously un-
 known in her history, have ratified the ac-
 ton of her convention, uniting her fortunes
 with ours. The States of Arkansas, North Carolina and Virginia have likewise adop-
 ted the permanent constitution of the Con- l federate States, and no doubt is entertained
 of its adoption by Tennessee at the election
 to be held early next month
 1 deemed 1t advisable to direct the re-
 moval of the several executive departments
 with their archives to this city, to which you had removed the seat of government,
 immediately after your adjournment. The aggressive movements of the enemy required
 prompt and energetic action. The accumula-
 tion of his forces on tbe Potomac, sufficient
 ly demonstrated that his efforts were to be
 directed against Virginia, and from no point | could the necessary means for her defense
 and protection be so effectively decided, as
 from her own capital. The rapid progress
 of events for the last few weeks, has fully
 sufficed to lift the veil, behind which the
 true policy and purposes of the government
 of the United States had been previously
 concealed Their odious features now stand
 fully revealed. The message of their pre-
 sident, and the action of their Congress,
 during the present month, confesses their
 intention of the subjugaton of these States
 by war, whose folly is equalled only by its
 wickedness-by which it is impossible to
 attain the proposed result, while its dire ca.
 lamities, not to be avoided by us, will fall
 with double severity on themselves.
 Commencing in March last, with the af-
 fectation of ignoring the secession of seven States, which first organized this govern ment, persisting in an idle and absurd as- sumption of the existence of riet, which was to be -disnessa1t that lat a4eesse comitatus, 6 an an offensive war, in spite of concIraI c evidence to the contrary, furnished as we h by the official action as by the very basi n on which this government IS constituted t The president of the United States and hi | advisers succeeded in decciving the people ( - those States into the belief that the purpos : of this government was not peace at homo r but conquest abroad-not the defense of il n own liberties, but the subversion of thos S of the people of the United States. Tn :, series of man@uvres by which this impre: - sion was created-the art with which the 0 were devised, and the perfdity with whic s they were executed, are already known n you, but you could scarcely have suppose 1T that they would be openly avowed, and the g success made the subject of boast and sell y laudation in an executive message. Fol }, tunately for the truth of history, howeve y the president of the United States detail = with minuteness the attempt to reinfort e Ft. Pickins in violation of an armistice, y which he confessed to have been informed e but only by rumors, too vague and unce tt tain to fix attention. Of the hostile exp r. dition, dispatched to supply Ft. Sumpte l. it is admitted to have been undertaken e with the knowledge that its success W. > impossible The sending of notice to u d governor of South Carolina, of his (Lil n coln's) intention to use force to accomplis y his object, and quoting from his inaugur B. address, the assurance that there could
 no conflict unless these States were the a!
 gressors, he proceeds to declare his col
 duet, just related by himself, was the pc r. formance of promise. So far from u a power of ingenious sophistry, as that u t. world should not be able to misunderstar l. it, and in defiance of his own statemen
 that he gave notice of the approach of Il ys hostile fleet, he charges these States wi f. becoming the assailants of the United Stat ,e who were without gun in sight or in e as pectancy to return their fire, save only re few in the fort He is indeed fully just al fled in saying that the case is so free fro th the power of ingenious sophistry, that u as world will not be able to misunderstood h. Under the cover of this unfounded pretenc at that the Confederate States are the assa h. ants, that high functionary, after expressil n. his concern, that some foreign nations h. ,y so shaped their action as if they suppose m the early destruction of the national unit re probable, he abandons all further disguis u and proposes tomake this contest a sho K and decisive one, by placing at the control " his government for the work, at least fo is hundred thousand men, and four hundr al millions of dollars. Congress concurril e. in the doubt thus intimated as to the sr IS. ficiency of the force demanded-has increa of ed it to half million of men. These e h. ormous preparations in men and money i m the conduct of war on scale more gral to than anywhich the new world ever witness V. is distinct avowal in the eyes of oisiliz ry man, that the United States are engaged It. a conflict with great and powerful natic or They are at last compelled to abandon t pretense of being engaged in dispensing ey oters, and suppressing insurrections, a H. are driven to the acknowledgment tn ed the ancient union has been dissolved. IT, They recognize the separate existence m these Confederate States, by an interdi n- tive embargo and blockades of all col , I merce between them and the United Stat
 it not only by sea, but by land, not only ue ships, but in cars, not only with those W ey bear arms, but with the entire populati 70, of the Confederate States. Finally, tn D. have repudiated the foolish conceit, Il
 the inhabitants of this Confederacy are st lot citizens of the United States, for they { he waging an indiscriminate war upon them on with savage ferocity unknown to mode m civilization. In this war rapine is { lie rule, private houses in beautiful rursAi to treats, are bombarded and burnsy tn