Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-07-26
JEFF. DAVIS, INAUGURAL.

JEFF. Davis Inaugural calls attention to
the causes which formed the Confederacy,
and says it is now only necessary to call lat
tention to such facts as have occurred dur
ing the recess, and to matters in connection
with the public defense. He coDgratuates
Congress on the accessions to the Confeder-
acy Of tho free and equal sovereign States,
mentioning several States, and says it was
deemed advisable TO remove the several de-
partnents and archives to Richmond, to
which place Congress has already been re-
moved, as the seat Of Government. After
the adjournment of Congress, the aggressive
movements of the enemy required prompt
and energetic action. The accumulation of
the enemies force on the Potomac, sufii-
ciently demonstrates that his efforts are di-
rected against Virginia, and from no point
could measures for her defense and protect
ion be so effectually directed as from his own
Capital
The rapid progress of the past few months
has stripped the veil behind which the true
policy and purposes of the Lincoln Govern
ment was previously concealed, but which
are now fully revealed. The message of
their President, and the action of their Con
gross at the present session, confesSes the
intention Of subjugating the seeding States
by war, the folly of which is equalled only
by its wickedness; war by which it is i'm
possible to attain the proper result, while
its dire calamities cannot be avoided by us,
will fall with double severity on themselves.
Commencing in March last with an affecta-
ton of ignorance of the secession of tho
seven States which organized the Confeder-
ate Government, and persisting in April in
the absurd assumption of the existence of a
riot which was to be dispersed by a posse
comitatus. Representations that these
States intended an offensive war in spite
of conclusive evidence to the contrary, furn-
ishing as we'll by the official action of the
President of the United States that he and
his advisers have succeeded in deceiving
the people of these States into the belief
that the purpose of this Government is not
peace at home, but conquest abroad; not
the defense of our liberties, but the subver-
sion Of the people of tho United States.
Fortunately for tho truth Of history, Lin
coins Message minutely details the attempt
to reinforce Ft. Pickens, in violation of the
armistice of which he confesses that he has
been informed only by rumors too vague
and uncertain to create attention. The
hostile expedition dispatched TO supply Ft
Sumter is admitted to have been underta-
ken with the knowledge that its success
was impossible. The sending Of note to
the Governor of South Carolina of the in
tention to use force to accomplish the OBJ
ject quoted in his Inaugural, that "there
will be no conflict unless these States were
the aggressors."
He proceeds to declare that his conduct
in the past as we'll as for the future was in
performance of this promis which could not
be misunderstood. He charges these States
with being the assailants of the Union and
states that the world cannot misunderstood
this uufounded pretenoe. Lincoln proposes
to make the contest sharp and decisive and
confesses that even an increased force is
required. These enormous preparations are
distinct avowal that the United States
are engaged with great and powerful ma
nation, and they are compelled to abandon
the pretence of dispensing rioters and sur
pressing insurrection, and are driven to the
acknowledgement that theU Union is dissolved.
They recognize tho seperate existance Of
the Confederate States by the interdiction
of an embargo and blockade, by which all
commerce between tho two is cut off
He repudiates the foolish idea that the
inhabitants of the Confederacy are citizens
Of the United States, for they are now wag-
ing an indiscriminate war upon them with
savage ferocity unknown to modern civ
ilation. He compares the present invasion
to that of Great Britain in 1881, which was
conducted in more civilized planner.-
Mankind shudders at the outrages commit
ted on defencelss females, who depict their
horror at the deliberate malignity which,
under the pretext of suppressing insurrec-
tion, they make special war on sick women
ana children, carefully devised measures TO
prevent their obtaining medicines necessary
for their care.