The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-07-23
Ief. Davis, InanguraI.

JefT. Davis inaugural.
New ORLEANS, July 2o.-Jef Davis In
augural calls attention to the causes which
formed the Confederacy, and says it is now
only necessary to call attention to such facts
as have occurred during the reeesses, and to
matters in connection with the public de-
fence. He congratulates Congress on the
accession to the Confederacy of the free
and equal sovereign States, mentioning the
several States, and says it was deemed ad-
visable to remove the several departments
and archives to Richmond to which place
Congress has already been removed, as the
seat of Government. After the adjourn
ment of Congress, the aggressive movements
Of the enemy required prompt and energetic
action. The accumulation of the enemy's
forces on the Potomac sufficiently demon
strates that his efforts are directed against
Virginia, and at no point could measures
for her defence and protection be so eff
GENTLY directed as from her own capital.
The rapid progress of the last few months
has stripped the veil behind which the true
policy and purposes of the Lincoln Govern
ment previously concealed itself, and which
are now fully revealed. The message of
their President, the action of their Congress
at the present session, confesses the inten-
ton of subjugating the seeding States by
war, the folly of which is equalled only by
its wickedness-a war by which it is impos-
sible to attain the proposed result, whilst its
dire calamities cannot be avoided by US,
will fall Goubly severely on themselves
Commencing in March last with an afecta-
ton of ignorance of the secession of seven
States, which organized the Confederate
government, persisting in April in the alb
surd assumption of the existence of a riot,
which was to be dispersed by posse conf
tatlts, continuing in the successive months
in false representations that these States, in
tended an offensive war in spite of concln-
sive evidence to the contrary, furnishes as
we'll by the official action of the President
of the United Stases, that he and his advi-
sers have succeeded in deeeiVing the people
of the United States. Fortunately for the
truth of history, Lineoln's message minute
ly details the attempt to reinforce Fort Sum-
ter, in violation of the arnistice, of which
he confesses that he has been informed only
by means too vague and uncertain to at
tract attention. The hostile expedition die
patched to Fort Sumter, is admitted to have
been undertaken with the knowledge that
its success was impossible; the sending of
notice to the Governor of South Carolina of
the intention to use force to accomplish the
object, and quoting from the inaugural that
there will be no conflict unless these States
were the aggressors. He proceeds to de-
clare that his conduct in the past and pres
ent was in performance of this promise
which could not be misunderstood. He
charges these States with being the assail-
ants of the Union, and states that the world
cannot misunderstood this uRfounded pre-
tence.
Lincoln proposes to make the contest
-
an increased force is required. These enor-
nous preparations is a distinct avowal that
the United States is engaged in a conflict
with a great and powerful nation, and they
are compelled to abandon the pretence of
dispensing rioters and suppressing insurrec-
ton, and are driven to the acknowledgment
that the Union is dissolved. They recog-
nize the existence of the Confederate, States
by the Introduction of an embargo and
blockade, By which all commerce between
the two is cut off.
He rupudiates the foolish idea that inhab-
itants of the Confederate States are still
citizens of the United States, for they are
now waging an indiseriminate 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 a more civ
ilized manner. Mankind shudders at the
outrages committed on the defenceless, by
those protesting to be fellow-citizens, who
depict their horror at the deliberate malig-
nifty with which, under the pretext of sup
pressing instruction, they make special war
on sick women and children, by carefully
devised measures to prevent their obtaining
medicine necessary for their cure. The sa-
cred claims of humanity are respected by
all nations even in the fury of battle, by
| careful deviation of an attack on hospitals
which are now outraged by a Government
which pretends the desire to continue fra
ternal connections. Such outrages admit
of no retaliation, unless the actual perpe-
traitors are captured
! Taylor's mission to Washington was to
| propose an. exchange of prisoners taken on
| the privateeF Savannah, and to inform Lin
coin of the determined purpose to check all
barbarity on prisoners of war by such re-
| taiiation as effectually to put an end to
such practices. Lincoln promised to reply
but none has yet been received. Ia refer
ence to the peculiar relations which exist be-
/ tween this Government and the States
casually termed the Border Slave States,
| which cannot properly be withheld from
notice, the hearts of our people are ami
| mated by the sentiments towards the in
habitants of these States which found ex-
| preston in our enactment refusing to con-
| slider them enemies or authorize hostiities
against them large portion of the peo-
Pile of these States regard brethren,
until unrestrained by the actual presence of