Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-07-22
JEFF. DAVIS INAUGURAL.

JEFF. Davis Inaugural calls attention 70
the causes which formed the Confederacy.
and says it is now only necessary to call at
tention 10 such facts as have occurred dur
ing the recess, and to matters in connection
with the public defense. He congratulates
Congress on the accessions to the Confede-
racy Of the free and equal sovereign States,
mentioning several States, and says it was
deemed advisable to remove the several de-
partments and archives 10 Richmond, to
which place Congress has already been re-
moved as the seatl0f Government. After
the adjournment of Congress, the aggressive
movements of the enemy required prompt
and energetic action. The accumulation Of
the enemy's for on the Potomac, sufficient
ly demonstrates that his efferts are directed
against Virginia, and from no point could
measures for her defense and protection be
50 efectually directed as from his own Cap
iol.
The rapid progress of the past few msnths
has stripped the veil behind which the true
policy and purposes of the Lincoln Govern
ment was previously concealed, but which
are now fully revealed. The message of
their President, and the action Of their Con
gress at the present session, confesses the in
tention of subjugating the seeding States by
war, the folly of which is equslled only by
its wickedness; war by which it is impossi-
bic to attain the ed result while its
dire calah.itie3 cannot be avoided by us, will
fall with double severity on themselves-
Commencing in March last with an afecta-
ton of ignorance of the secession VI the
seven States which organized the Confederate
Government, and persisting in April in the
absurd assumption of the existence of rist
which was to be dispersed by a posse conf
tatus. Representation that these States in
tended an offensive war in spite of couclu-
siVe 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 de-
fense of our liberties, but the snbYersion of
the people of the United States.
Fortunately for the truth of history, Lin
coins message minutely details the attempt
TO reinforce Fl. Pickens, in violation of the
armistice Of which he cOnfesses that he has
been infJrmed only by rumors too vague and
expedition dispatched to supply F. Sumter
is admitted to have been undertaken with the
knowledge that its success was impossible
The sending of notice to the Governor OF
South Carolina of the intention to use force
to accomplish the object quoted from in his
Inaugural, that "there will be no conflict
unless these States were the aggressors."
Heproceeds to declare that his conduct in
the past es we'll as for the future was in per.
torrance of this promise which could not be
misunderstood. He charges these States
with being the assailants Of the Union and
states that the world cannot misundestand
this uniounded pretence. Lincoln proposes
to make the contest sharp and decisive and
eonieses that even an increased force is re-
quired. These enormous preparations are
distinct avowal that the United States are
engaged with great and powerful nation,
and they are compelled to abandon the pre-
tence of dispensing rioters and suppressing in
surrection, and are driven to the ackno \ /
edgement th1t the Union is dissolved. They
recognize the separate existence of the Con-
federate Sta'es by the Introduction Of an en-
barge aud blockade, by which all commerce
between the two is cut off.
ne Icp cpuuAhtrb Tue lcOiAsn Auoh ludt Lie III
habitants Of the Confederacy are citizens Of
the United States for they are now waging
an indiseriminate war upon them with a
savage ferocity unknown to modern ciYiliza
ton. He compares the present invasion to
that of Great Britain in 1881, which was
conducted in a more civilized manner
Mankind shudders at the outrages committed
on defenceless females, who depict their hor-
TOR at the deliberate malignity which, under
the pFetext of suppressing insurrection, they
make special war on sick women and child
ren, by carefully devised measures to pre-
vent their obtaining medicines necessary for
their care.