Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-11-25
News from the Rebel Army {!
SKIRMlSH NEAR FORT MONROEl
Saturday Nights Report.

patcue5 was tnAt pOrLlOu OF Jeu DAVIS Meg
sage regarding the proposition made in
Kentucky by the prOfessedly neutral Cover,
nor, for each army to leave the State. Davis
goes on as follows: Eds
These declarations were approved by me,
and should regard it as one of the best
effects of the march of Cur troops into Ken
trcky, if it should aid in giving to h2r peO-
pie liberty of choice and free opportunity
to decide their own policy according to their
own will.
While he says the army has been chiefly
instrumental in prosecuting the great contest,
the navy has also been effective in full pro.
portion to its means. He speaks of the diff
culties attending mail transportation, some Of
which he declares can be overcome only by
time and the improved condition of the
country, or the restoration OF peace, but
others by legislation.
As TO the financial system, it has worked
well 30 far, and promises good results for the
future. To the extent that treasury nOtes
may be issued to the Government, it is
enabled to borrow money without interest,
and thus facilitate the conduct Of the war.
This extent is measured by the portion Of
the field of circulation which these notes can
be made to occupy. The proportion Of the
field thus occupied depends again upon the
amount of the debts for which they are re-
recei able, and when due, not only to the
Confederate and State Governments, are pay
able in this medium 9 large portion of it
may be circulated at par.
There is every reason 10 believe that the
Confederate treasury notes are fast becoming
such medium. The proposition that these
notes shall be convertible into Confederate
Stock Treasury, at 8 per cent. interest, st the
pleasure of the holder, insures them against
depreciation below the value Of that stock,
and no considerable fall in their value need
be feared, so long as the interest snail be pune
tually paid. The punctual payment OF this
interest has been secured by the act passed
by you at the last session, imposing such a
rate of taxation ss must provide sufficient
means for that purpose.
For the successful prosecution OF this war,
it is indispensable that the means of trans
porting troops and military supplies be fur.
nissd, as far as possible, in such manner as
not to interrupt the commercial intercourse
between our people, nos Hlscs Q check upon
their productive energies.
In another part of his message he says !:
We have already two systems of through
transportation from the North to the South;
one from Richmond along tho 9saboard and
the other through Western Virginia to HeE
Orleans. A third might be secured by COM
pleting link of abont 40 miles between
DanTille, Va, and Greensborough, h.O. The
construction of this comparatively short line
would give as a through route from North to
South in the interior of the Confederate
States and give US access to a population and
to military resources from which we are now
in q great measure debaFred. He says fur
ther, If we husband our means and make q
judicious use et our resources, lt would be
1ificalt to fz a limit to the period during
which We could conduct 3 war against the
adversary whom we now encounter. The
very effects which be makeR to desolate and
divide ns must exhaust his means, whilst
they serve to complete the circle and divers
" the productions of our industrial system.
The reconstruction which he seeks to effect
by arms becomes daily more and more i'm
possible. Not only do the causes which in
dueed US to separate still last in full force,
but they have been strengthened, and what
ever doubt may have fingered in the minds OF
any, must have been completely dispelled by
subsequent events. II, instead of being a
dissolution of league It we're indeed rebel
lion in which we were engaged, we might
End Vindication TOR the cause We have adopt
ed in the scenes which are now being enacted
in the United States. Our people now look
with contemptous astoni5hment on those
with whom they had been 30 recently ssso-
/ cisted. They shrink with aversion from the
bare idea of renewing such a connection, etc.
With such people we may be content to live
at peace, but our separation from them is final
and for the independence we have asserted
We will accept no alternative.
President Davis characterizes the nature oil
the hostilities on the part Of the United States
az barbarous wherever 1t is understood. he
adds, if they convert their soldiers into in
cendiavies and robbers, and involve rs in q
species of war which claims non combatants,
women and children, as its victims, they
] must expect to be treated as outlaws and en-.
emies of mankind. There are certain rights
of humanity whi.h are entitled to respect
even in war, and be who refuses to regard
them forfeits his claim il captured to be con-
| sidered a prisoner of war, and must expect
| to be dealt with rs an offender against all
law, human and divine.
But not content with violating our rights
under the law Of nations at home, they have
extended these injuries to US within other
iuris iictions. The distinguished gentlemen
whom with your approval at the last session
we're commissioned to present the Coniedsra
cy at certain foreign courts, have been re-
Gently seized by the Capt. of United State:
vessel of war while on board British mai
steamer, while on a voyage from the neutrd
Spanish port CT Havana to England. Tht
| United States have thus claimed q genera
Jurisdiction over the high seas, and entered
q British ship sailing under its country's flag
thus violating the rights OF embassy, for thl
most part held sacred ever among barbarians
by seizing our ministers whilst under tht
protection and within the dominion Of {
neutral nation. These gentlemen were q
much under the jurisdiction Of the Britisf
government upon that ship and beneath ID
Dag as if they had been on its soil, and {
claim on the part Of the United States t
seize them in the streets Of London WOul,
have been as we'll founded as that to appre
bend them where they were taken. HRi
they been mAlefaetors and citizens even o
the United States they cOnld not hare beel
arrested on board Of British ship OF Oh
British soil, unless under the express prov;s
ions of treaty and according to the form
therein provided for the eXtFadition Of Grim
ipsls.
President Davis speaks Of Mr.. Faulkner a
having been per6dlously arrested, and say
that 10 conducting this war we have sough
no aid, imposed no alliances offensive AM
defensive abroad. Perhaps We had the right
If We had chosen to exercise it, to ask t
know whether the principle that blockades
to be binding, must be effective, so solemnlI
announced by the great powers Of Europe a
Paris, ID to be generally enforced or applie'
only 70 psrtieEler parties.
Mr.. Davis says be has caused the e7idenc
to be collected which proves completely h
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