The Shreveport weekly news., 1861-07-29


the remarkable paperto which l have
directed Your attention, having refer
eace to the peculiar relations which
exist between this Government and
the States usually termed Border
slave States" which cannot properly
be withheld from notice. q'he hearts
Of our people are animated 10y scnti-
, ments towards the Inhabitants of
those States which has found expres-
sion in your enactment, refusing TO
consider them enemies or authorize
hostilities against them. That a
very large portion OF The people of
those States regard lis as brethren
that if unrestrained by tho actual
presence of large armies, the subver-
sion Of civil authority and the dec
laration of martial law, some Of them
at least would Joy fully unite viii. us.
That they are with an allnost~entire
unanimity opposed TO the prosecu-
ton of the war Naged against us
our faith of which daily recurxin NJ.
events fully warr;tnts tbs assertion.
The President ot the United
States refuses to recognize IN those
of our sister States the right OF re-
framing from attack on us. and JUS
tities his refusal by the assertion that
the States have no other power than
that reserved to them in the Union
by the constitution. no one of them
having ever been a State out of the
Union. This view OF constitutional
lot t,. .l.. .,,,I IL
General Government is fitting in
PRODUCTION to another assertion of the
message, that the President cxclu-
sively possesses the power OF habeas
corpus, and of delegating that power
TO the military commanders at his
discretion, and both these PROPOSE
tions claim u respect equal to that
which is felt for the additional state
ment of opinion of the same paper,
that i, is proper. in order TO execute
the laws, ;ha: the same single law is
made in such extreme tenderness of
citizens liberty that practically il
relieves more .: the gully than the
innocent, should to very limited
cxteni be violated.
We may well rejoice that We have
forever severed our connection with
governments; that thus tramples on
all principles of constitutional iber-
ty, and with n people in whose pres
ence such avowals could be hazarded.
The operations on the field will be
greatly extended by tl.e reason of a
policy which, heretofore secretly en-
terta:ned, is now avowpd and acted
upon by the United States
The forces hitherto raised proved
ample for tic defence of the seven
States which originally organized the
Confedcracy, as is evident by the
fact that viii, the exception OF three
fortified islands. whose deteuc. issut
ticien;ly aided by a prcygDIcraling
naval force OF The enemy, las becn
driven.coinpie,el y ont oftltose stations.
and now, at the expiration OF tiYa
months from the formation Of The
Government, not n single hostile foo,
has pressed their soil. Ihese fer,
ces, however, must necessarily prove
Inadequate 10 rcpc' invasion hy u
half million Of men, now proposed by
, the enemy, and a corrcsp psuGiug in
creasc Of aur forces will b,-rolH- nee
. essary.
Tho Recommendations sor ,hc ri :
sing and e4niPpins Of thts additional
force win be contained IL the com
imunication ofti!c Secretary Of War.
TO which | need scarcely invite your
earnest attention
In my message delivered in April
last, l referred 10 The promise OF
, abundant crops 10 which sc were
cheercd. The grain crops generally
have since been harvested, and the
yield has been the. most abundant
known in our history. Many believe
the supply adequate 10 two years
consumption Tor oar population. Cot
ton, sugar and tobacco, forming the
surplus production Of our agI-iculturs,
and farll shiug the basis of our com
mercial Interests, present most
/ cheering promise, and kind provi-
dence has smiled on the labor which
extracts the teenIing wealth Of our
soil in all portions OF cur Confadera-
I cy.
1t is the more gratifying to be able
to give You this information, because
of the need Of large and increased
expenditure in support of tha army
! Elevated and purified by the sacred
cause they maintain, our fellow -citi-
zens of every condition of life exhib.
I it most self-sarriffcin DEVOTION
They manifest iaudable pride in up.
holding their Independence, unaided
by any resources other than thei,
.own, and the immense wealth which
a fertile soil and agenial climate hav,
accumulated in this Confederacy.-
4 The patriotism Of the Agnculturist.
could not be more strikingly display
ed than in the large revenues which
with eager hearts, they have zeal
ously contributed, at the call of thei
country, in the single article of cot
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