Shreveport daily news., 1861-07-25
Assenblagc Of the Confederate
Congress.
MESSAGE OP PRESIDENT DAVIS.

Richmond, July 2O.-Congress
met to-day. pursuant to adjourn
Inent.
The following is President Davis's
message to Congress-, which was
read in open session:
Gcxtlemem-Mym message addressed
to you at the commencement of the
session, contains such full informa-
tion1 Of the state Of the Con-
federacy as to render it unneces-
sary that l should now do more than
call your attention to such event.
as have occurred during recess.
and to matters connected with the
public defence.
l have again to congratulate you
on the accession of new members to
our confederation of free, equal, SOW
ereign States. Our loved and honor
ed brethren of North Carolina and
Tennessee have consumated the &C.
ton foreseen and provided for at
your last session, and l have had
the qualification Of announcing by
proclamation in conformity with q
law that those States were admitted
into the Confederacy. The people
of Virginia, also by majority pre-
viously unknown in her history, have
ratified the action Of her convention
uniting her fortunes with ours.
The States of Arkansas, North Car
olina, and Virginia have likewise
adopted the permanent Constitution
of the Confederate States, and no
doubt is entertained of its adoption
by Tennessee at the election to be
held early next month.
! deemed it advisable to direct the
removal Of the several Executive
Departments with their archives to
this city, to which you had removed
the seat Of government.
Immediately after your adjourn
ment, the aggressive movements of
the enemy required prompt, energet-
ic action. The accumulation of his
forces sufficiently demonstrated that
his efforts were to be directed against
Virginia, and from no point could
necessary measures for her defence |
and protection be SO efficiently direc-
ted as from her own capital.
The rapid progress Of events for
the last few weeks has fully sufficed |
to strip the vail behind which the !
true policy and purposes Of the Gov
ernment of the United States had
been concealed. Their odious fea-
lures now stand fully revealed. The
message of their President, and the
action Of their Congress during the
month. confess the intention Of the
of these States by a
war whose folly is equalled by it's
war which it is i'm
possible to attain the purposed re-
suit, whilst its dire calamities, which
cannot be avoided by us, will fall
with double severity on themselves.
Commencing in March last with
an aftectation of ignorance Of the Sc
cession of seven States which first
the Government; persis-
ing, in April, in an idle and absurd
assumption of the existence Of riot
which was to he dispersed by pos
Sc comitatus; continuing in success
We months the false representation
hat these States intended offensive
var, in spite Of conclusive evidence
% the contrary, furnished as we'll by ,
official action as by the very basis
IN which this Government is consti-
uted, the President OF the United ..
States and his advisers succeeded in
leceiving the people Of those States
nto the belief that the purpose of !:
his Government was not peace at
lolne, but conquest abroad; not de-
ence of its own liberties, but the
ubversion of those of the people of
he United States. (
The series Of manoeuvres by