Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-22

JEFF DAVIS MESSAGE.
RICHMOND, July 20, via New ORLEANS
The rebel congress met to day jeff Davis
message called attention to the causes which
formed the confederacy, and says it is now
only necessary to call attention to such facts
as occurred during the recess, and matters
connected with the public defence He con
graduates congress on the accession to the
cenfederacy of their equal and sovereign
states. 1t was deemed advisable to remove
the archives and several departments to Rich
mond, to which place congress had already
removed the seat of government. The aggres-
sive movements of the enemy had induced
prompt and energetic action. The accumula'
ton of the enemy's forces on the Potomac,
sufficiently demonstrated that his efforts were
directed against Virginia and from no point
could the necessary measures for her protec-
ton be so efficiently directed as from our cap
itol. The rapid progress Tor the last few
months, had stripped off the veil behind which
the true policy and purposes of the Lincoln
government were previously concealed, and
they are now fully revealed. The message of
their president, and the action of their congress
during the present session, confess the nten-
ton Of subjugating the seeding states by war,
a folly which is only equaled by its wicked
Mesa war by which it is impossible to at
tain the proposed result. Whilst its dire ca
with double severity on themselves. Com.
mencing in March last with the affectation of
ignorance OF the secession Of seven states
which organized the confederate government
persistiug in April on the absurd assumption
of the existence of riot, which was to be dis
persed by a posse c0mltdtuS; continuing in sue
cessive months the false representations that
the states intended offensive war, in spite of
conclusive evidence to the contrary, furnished
as well by official action as by the basis of the
constitution. The president of the United
States succeeded in deluding the people of
those states into the belief that the purpose of
this government was not peace at home, but
conquest abroad-not the defence of our liber-
ties, but the subjugation of the people Of the
United States. The series of manuevers by
which the impression was created, the act by
which they were devised, and the perfdy
by which they were executed, are al
ready known. Could it be supposed they
would make openly their success a subject
of boast and self laudation in the executive
message? Fortunately for truth Lincoln's
message infinitely details the attempt to rein
force fort Pickens in violation of the armstice,
OF which he c0ntesses to have been informed
only by rumors too vague and uncertain to
create any attention; the hostile attempt to
supply fort Sumpter, admitted to have been
undertaken with knowledge that its success
was impossible the sending a notice to the
governor OF South Carolina OF the intended
ruSe for the accomplishment of the object, and
quoting from the inaugural that there would
be no conflict unless these states were the ag
gressors proceeding to declare his conduct,
as in the past for the future, was for the per-
Torrance OF his promise which would not be
misunderstood.
In defiance of our statement that he gave
,ckl oh. .lN AAn I.O
charged these states with being assailants of
the union of the states. The world cannot
misunderstood this unfounded pretence. Lin
coin expresses concern that some foreign ma
tions so shaped their actions as if they supposed
the early destruction of the Union probable
He abandons further disguise and proposes to
make the contest "short and decisive, and con-
fesses that even an increased force is demanded.
These enormous preparations, the distinct
avowal that the United States is engaged in a
conflict with great and powerful nation COM
PEELED him to abandon the pretence of dispers.
ing rioters and suppressing insurrection, and
he was driven to the acknowledgment that the
Union was dissolved TO recognize the separate
existence of the confederate states by indirec-
ton, by embargo and blockade, by which all
commerce between the two is cut Off They
repudiate the foolish idea that the inhabitants
of the confederacy are still citizens of the
United States for they are now waging in
discriminate war upon them, with a savage
ferocity unknown TO modern civilization. He
compares the present invasion to that Of Great
Britain in 1881, which was conducted in
more civilized manner. Mankind will shud.
der at the outrages committed on defenceless
females by these pretending to be fellow citi-
Zens, will depict the horrors with which they
regard the deliberate malignity with which,
under the pretext OF suppressing instruction,
they make special war on women and children
by carefully devised plans to prevent their
obtaining medicines necessary to their cure.
The sacred claims of humanity, respected by
all nations, even in the fury of battle, by care
full deviation of attack upon hospitals, are now
outraged by the government which pretends
to desire certain fraternal connection. Such
outrages admit no retaliation unless the actual
perpetrators are requited.
Taylors mission to Washington was to pro-
pose an exchange of prisoners taken on the
privateer Savannah, and TO inform Lincoln
that we were determined to check all barbara
ties on prisoners of war, by such retaliation as
etfectually to put an end to such practices
Liricoln's promitted reply is not yet received.
Reference is made to the peculiar position
existing between this government and the
states usually termed "border slave states,
which cannot properly be withheld from no.
toward the inhabitants of those states which
found expression in your excitement, refusing
to consider them enemies or authorize hostili-
ties against them. A large portion of the PEG.
pie OF those states regard us as brethren, and
if unlrammelled by the actual presence oflarge
armies, the subversion of civil authority, and
the declaration of martial law, some of them
at least would joyfully unite with u.s. but
that they are, with almost entire unanmity,
A.. of
against us, are facts of which daily recurring
events warrant the assertion.
The president of the United States, in re-
fusng to recognize in these, our late sister
states, the right Of retrainng from attack ON
the United States, justifies his refusal by the
assertion that the states have no other power
han that reserved to them in the Union by the