The national Republican., 1861-05-07
THE MESSAGE OF JEFF. DAVIS.

THE MESSAGE OF JEFF. DAVIS.
This document, which bears the date of
April 29, has been received here by mail. Its
leading points were notified by telegraph on
the day Of its delivery.
In reference 10 the Confederate loan,"
Davis says more than eight millions was sub.
scribed for at not less than par. How much
of this kas been paid in, or is likely to be, is
not stated, and is of little consequence, as Davis
says that the present exigencies require "much
larger' means. This is heavy news for such
Of his subjects as have any money left. The
number of such persons, however, is probably
not large.
Davis says that at a meeting at Montgomery
Of the presidents of all the railroads in his
kingdom, it was agreed to carry the mails and
troops at reduced rates, and to take their pay
in Confederate bonds" The railroads are
in the condition of the banks. They cannot
keep their property out Of sight, and are help
lessly exposed to these forced contributions
The banks must subscribe to the loans, and
the roads must transport troops and mails with
out compensation. There is no help for it,
and they may as well submit with good grace
as with an i'll grace But with private bust
ness nearly annihilated, and public business
paid for in worthless bonds, how much longer
can these railroads be kept running even, to
say nothing of dividends on stock, and interest
upon debts2
OF his army, Davis says that he has nineteen
thousand men at Charleston, Pensacola, and in
the forts guarding Savannah, Mobile, and New
Orleans, that "sixteen thousand are r0w en-
route for Virginia" and that immediate meas.
ures will be taken to augment the forces organ
lied and held in readiness, to the number of
one hundred thousand.
The sixteen thousand men here stated to be
zen route for Virginia" are from the Southern
Confederacy proper. and whatever their real
number may be, it will be increased by the
forces of North Carolina and Tennessee, and
by the scattering bands known to have been
sent to Virginia by secession sympathizers in
Kentucky.
Davis was distinguished in time Of peace, for
saying just what it suited his purposes to say,
and the stratagems of war allow very large
latitude in the way of humbugging the enemy,
, and even ones own friends. This "sixteen
thousand story may, therefore, be taken with
just such allowances as suit the judicious, but
it is proper to be said, that it does not 60 be.
yond what is indicated in all the accounts from
the South. See on our first page, a collection
of extracts from Southern papers and letter
WRITER'S in relation to the proposed attack upon
Washington.
As, even upon the theory that States may
leave the Union when they please, Virginia
cannot be out until her people ratify the ordi.
nance of secession on the 23d Of May, Davis
will not pretend that he is doing anything else
than commencing uar Of inpasion, when he
announces on the Goth April, that he has six.
teen thousand soldiers zen route for Virginia
THE PACIFICATION OF MARYLAND.
We observed, at the time of the recent seces
sion outbreak in Maryland, that it would only
have the effect of increasing and confirming the
determination of the free States, that the ma
tional authority shall be restored by coercion
aud force OF arms, everywhere at the South
Its tendency to produce this effect, grew out o
the fact, that whatever controversy there may
have been as to the preponderance of popular
sentiment in the distant Gulf States, there was
none as to the preponderance of the Union
sentiment in Maryland. The free States could
make no mistake as to a fact like that, falling
under their immediate observation, and wher
they saw this undoubted Union majority in
Baltimore and Maryland, temporarily over
slaughed by the terror and force of reckless
minority, they inferred the possibility and proba
bilty that the same thing was true of the farther
South.
If the secession outbreak in Maryland salts
fed the North, that the appearances Of disunior
there and elsewhere, were deceptive, the pacifi
cation of Maryland teaches the same lesson
and even more impressively. Four fiths of th
people of that State have proved themselve
eager to manifest their national patriotism
does of sedition was loosed from their throats.
Interpreting by the light of these occurrence
in Maryland, the information which reache
here by thousand channels from Virginia
and it is impossible to doubt, that if the ioreig
mercenaries of JEFF. Davis can be driven out
and if the rowing bands ofthe Richmond rum
can be dispersed, that State would be to.da
even more loyal than the vote Of February Al
proved her to be. We say more loyal, because
while nothing has happened since that time, t
convert anybody to the heresy of secession, a
events have tended to dssuade from it, thos
at first inclined to favor it.
Nobody now doubts, in short, that Virgini
oon La and will he os thoroughlv nacifrate