Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-07-25
Jeff. Davis, Ina heural,

NEW ORLEANS, July ~.
jeff. Davis Inaugural calls attention to the
causes which farmed the Coniederacy Add says
it is now only necessary to call ATTENTION to such
facts as have occurred during the recess, and to
mattes in connexion with the public defense.
He sohgrntulates Congress on the accessions to
to the Confederacy of the free and equal sover-
ereign States, mentioned several States, and
SAYS it was deemed advisable to remove the
several departments and archives 10 Richmond
to which place Congress has already been re-
removed, as the seat Of Government. After the
adjournment of Congress the aggressive move
ments of the enemy required prompt and ener-
getic action. The accumulation of the enc
my's force on the Potomac, sufficiently DEM
onstrates that his efforts are directed against
Virginia, and from no point could measures for
her defense and protection be so effectually di-
rected as from his own Capitol. .7e1si.sss
The rapid progress within the last few months
has stripped the veil behind which the true pol
icy and purposes Of the Lincoln Government
was previously concealed, but which are now
fully revealed. The message oftheir President
and the action of their Congress at the present
session, confesses the intention of subjugafing
the seceeding States by war, the folly Of which
is equalled only by its wickedness; a war by
which it is impossible to attain the proposed re-
scsult, while its dire ealamities cannot be a.
voided by US, will fall with double severity on
themselves. Commencing in March last with
an affectation of ignorance of the secession of
the seven States which organized the Confeder-
ale Government, and perslsting in April In the
absurd assumption OF the existence of :. riot
which was to be dispersed by u posse comitaius.
Representations thai these States intended an
offensive war in spite OF conclusive evidence to
the contrary furnishes as we'll by the official ac-
flow of tba President of tho Initial Stat.,c hot
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 subversion of the people
of the United States.
Fortunately for the truth OF history ,Lincoln's
message infinitely details the attempt to REIN
roree Fort PIckens, in violation of the armistiee
of which he coniesses that he has been in FORM
ed only by rumors too vague and uncertain to
create attention. The hostile expedition dis
patched to supply is admitted to have been un-
dertaken 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 quoted
from 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 well as for the future was in perfor-
nance of this promise which could not be mis-
understood He charges these States with be-
ing the assailants of the Union, and states that
the world cannot understand this unfounded
pretence. Lincoln proposes to make the con-
test sharp and decisive and confesses even that
an increased force is required. These enormus
preparations are distinct avowal that the Uni
ted States are engaged with great and power
full nation, and they are compelled to abandon
the pretence Of dispensing rioters and suppress
sing insurrection, and are driven to the aeknowl-
tdgement that the Union is dissolved. They
recognize the separate existence of the Cenfed-
crate States by the interdiction of an embargo
and blockade, by which all commerce between
the two is cut off,
/. He repudiates the foolish idea that the inhab-
itants of the Confederacy are citizens of the
United States, for they are now waging an in
discriminate war upon them with a savage fe
rocity unknown to modern civilization. He COM
pares the present invasion to that of Great Brit
ain in 1871 which was conducted in a more civ
ilized manner. Mankind shudder at the outra-
ges committed on dcfenceless females, who de-
pct their horror at the deliberate malignity
which under the pretext of suppressing insur-
reciion, they make special war on sick women
and children, by cal efully devised measures to
prevent their obtaining medicines necessary for
their care