Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-07-22
MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT.
10 til. COngrss, Of The Confederate
States of Amsried /:
GENTLEMEN:

States 81 dmertcd
GENTLEMEN:
Nv Message addressed to you at the commencement
Of the session contained such full information oil the
state Of the Confederacy as TO render n
should now do more than call your attention to snch
facts as baye occurred during the recess and
TO matters connected with the public defence.
have gain 10 congratulate you on the accession OF
new members 10 our Confederation OF free, equd and
sovereign States. Our loved aud honored brethren oil
North Carolina and Tennessee have consummaed the &C
lion foreseen and provided for a. your Last session. ana
have had the qualification OF announcing, by proea-
nation in conformity viii law, that those States were
admitted into the Confederaey.
The people of Virginia also, by msjority previously
unknown in her history have ratified the action oil her
Convention uniting her fortunes with ours The States
Of Arkansas North Carolina and Virginia have likewise
ADOPTED :he permanent Constitution OF the Confederate
States and no dosbt entertained OF Its adoption oy
al the election TO be held early next month
Ideemed II advisable to direct the removal Of the sew
eral Executive Departments with their archives 70 this
cty 10 which you bad removed the seat OF government
Immediately after your adjournment. The aggressive
movements Of the enemy required prompt sna energet
ia action The accumulation Of his tcrces on the Poto
mac sufficiently demonstrated that his efforts were to he
directed against Yrgnia and IRON 10 point could the
measures for her defence and protection DC SO
efficiently directed as from her own capital
The said progress OF events for the las. lew weeks
has fully sufoe % strip the veil behind wne9 tGe rus
policy and purposes OF toe
Sates hal been previously concealed; their odious ea
lures now stand fuly reveal Jed tho message OF ther
President and the action OF their congress curing 'o
present month confess the intention oil hee
states by war whose folly is eQualed by lts WICKED
regs war BY which il is impossible 10 attain tho pro-
psed result whilst its dire caamos, not to be avoided
by u.s. will fall with double severity on themselves,
CoC,mencjpg in March last, with an shectaton OF
ignoring the Secession Of the States which hrst or
canized this government pe.sSt9g in April IN the ao
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aud absurd assumption oil the existence Fos nuien
was TO be dispersed by posse eomitd continuing ID
successive months the false representation that hese
States intended offensive war in spite OF the conclusive
evidence 10 the contrary, i.Inhed as well by oiDcia
action as by the very basis on which this soerDment
il constituted: the President of the United States and
his advisers succeeded in dceying the people OF those
States into the belief that the purpose oil this govern
ment was not peace at home but conquest abroad not
the defence of It's own berties but the subyerson OF
those of the people OF the United States.
The series of man0lvers by which this impression was
created: the art with which they were devised aud the
perf1y with which they were executed, were already
known to you; but you could scarcely have supposed
that they would be openly ayoSed and their success
made the subject OF boast and self4saGacn in an exc
cutye message Fortunately for the truth OF history,
however, the President OF the United States details with
minuteness the attempt to reinforce Fort Pckens in
violation Of an srasGs Of which he ccnfesses to have
been informed bot only by rabio,s tco vague and I'M
certain 10 liz attention." the hostile expedition ctch
ed to supply Fort Snmpter admitted TO have been under
taken wi knowledge that s success vasmpossbe the
sending Of notice TO the Governor OF South Carolina OF
his intention to force TO accomplish his .oDec and
then quoting from bis Inaugural Address the assurance
that there could be conflict unless these States were
the agsFessors he proceeds TO declare that his conduct,
as just related W himself performance of this pro
MISE free from the power of ingenious sophstry as
that the world should not be able 70 Ispndersand it,
and in defiance Of his that he gave nace
OF the approach CT hostile ss he charges these States
with becoming the ASSISTANTS Of the United States with
out gun in sight IN erpcctaney 10 return their ire
save only the feg in the FORT lie is indeed FULLY us
fed in saying that the oass "is so free from the power
OF ingenious sophisy, that the world will not be able to
misunderstood IL"
Under cover Of this unfounded pretence that the Con-
federate Stses are the asssan that high unctonary,
after expressing his concern that some foreign nations
had shaped their action as II they supposed the early
destruction of our National Union was probable sban-
dons all further disguise and proposes ITO make this
contest shSFt and decisive one by placing at the con-
troll Of the government for the work, at least 900
men, and $500, 100000. The Congress, concurrng in
the doub thus minated the suciensy OF the force
demanded, has increased it to hal, million Of men,
These preparations in men and money for the
conduct OF on scale more gigantic than any which
the world has witnessed, ara distinct avowal
in the eyes OF civilized man, that the United States
engaged in conflict with great and powerful nation
they at last compelled to abandon the pretence OF
being engaged in dispensing rioters and suppressng in
surrecons and ars dryen 10 the that
che ancient Union has been dissolved. They recognize
the separate existence OF these Confederate Saes by the
nderdotion embargo and blockade Of all commerce be-
tween them and the United States only by sea- but
by land: not only in ships, but in rail carr not only
with those who bear arms, but with the entire popul
ton of the Confederate STATS. Finally they have re-
pudiated the foolish concet that the Inhabitants of this
Conederacy are still citizens Of the United Sstes for
they are wagiug indiscrminate upon them all
with q savage ferocity unknowp to modern civilization
In this war; rspne Is the rule private residences in
peaceful rural retreats bombArded and purnt grain
crops 10 the field are consumed by the torch and when
the torch not convenient careful labor Is bestowed 10
render complete tia destruction OF every article Of
ornament remaining in private dwellings, after their
Inhabitants have fed from the ousGes OF brutal SOL
| diery.
10 1881, Great Britain, when invading hes yevoted
Colonies took possession Of the very district Of country
near Fortress Monroe occupied by troops of the
United States. Tbs houses then inhabited by the peo-
pe after being respected and protected by avowed in
vsders piased and destroyed by men who pre-.
tend that the victims are their fellow-citizeDs.
Mankind LII shudder to hear the tales of outrsges
committed on deenceess females by soldiers Of the Uni
led States now invading orr homes yet these oursges
are prompted BIZ inHamed passions and the madness Of
intoxication. But who shall depict the horror yith
which they will regard the cool and deliberate malignity
which, under pretext of suppresing nsurrecon said
by ,hemseyss TO be upheld by minority only OF our
reope makes special war on the SICK including the wo.
men and the children by carefully devised measures TO
prevent their obtaining the medicines necessary fos their
cure, The aersd claims Of humanity, FsPsotsd sVsu