Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-07-30
jefferson Davis Inaugural.

Jefferson Davis Inaugural.
As one of the passing illusions of the .
troubions times upon US we give synopsis
oil the Confederates inaugural, as reported
by telegraph. The dispatch is dated New
Orleans, July %:
Jen- DAVIS inaugral calls attention 10
the causes which formed the confederacy,
ana says 1t IL now only necessary to call
attention to such facts as have occurred
unrihg the recess, and to matters In con.
necti1n with the public defence. He con-
graduates congress on the accession 10 the
confederacy of the free and equal soyereic,
states, mentioning several states. and saw,
1t was determined advisable 30 remove the
several departments and archives 10 Rich
monc, to which place congress has already
removed as the seat of government After
The adjournment of congress, the aggressive
! movements OF the enemy required prompt
and energetic action. The accumulation
oil the enemy's f6rces on the Potomac suf-
tciently demonstrates that his efforts are
fuirecied against Virginia, and from no
point could measures for her defence and
protection be so efficiently directed as from
her own capital. The rapid progress Of the
last lew months has stripped the veil be-
hind which the true policy and purpose Of
tne Lincoln government were previously
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| The message of their president. the action
of their congress at the present session.
confesses the intention of subiueatine ths
seeding states by war, the folly Of which In
equal only by Its wickedness. A war by
which 1t is impossible to attain the pro.
posed results, whilst it's dire calamities can.
not be avoided by us, will fall doLbly 80.
we're oE themselves.
Commencing in March last with an aH-
ectation OF ignorance of the secession of
seven states which have organized the CON.
federate government persistine in April
in the absurd assumption of the existencs
Of riot which was TO be dispered by "pos.
sc coDtHGtHS;" continuing in the successive
false representations that these states in
tended ala offensive war, in spite of conclu.
siye evidence to the contrary, furnishes IS
well by the cfhcial action of the president
of the United States, that be and his adyis-
ers have succeeded in deceiying the peopls
Of the United States.
Fortunately for the truth of bis.orv.
Lincoln's message infinitely details the at
tempt to reinforce Fort PIckens In violation
OF the armistlce OF which he confesses he
has been informed only by rumore too
vague and uncertain to create attention.
The hostile expedition dispatched to supply
Fort Sumter is admitted TO have been un-
dertaken with the knowledge that il. sue
cess was impossible. The sending of n no.
tice 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 confiict unless these states
weie the aggressors, he proceeds to declare
that his conduct isrthe past, as well as for
the future, was in performance of this
promise, which could not be misunder.
stood lie charges these states with being
the assailants of the Union, and states that
Il Q verdi cannot misunderstood this unfoup.
ded pretence.
LincOln proposes to make the contest
short and decisive, and confesses that even
an increased force is required These
enormous preparations are distinct ayoyal
that the United States is engaged in a con-
fict with great and powerful! nation, and
they are compelled TO abandon the pre-.
; tence Of dispensing rioters and suppressiuQ
instructions, and driven TO the acknovi.
edgnent :hat the Union is dissolved. They
|, recognize ue separate zxistepcs n fl's
Confederate States b. The ibdsction efen
embargo and blockade, by which all COM
, merce between the two is cut of.
lie repudiates the foolish idea that the
j j inhabitants of the Confederate States are
still citizens Of the United States, for thew
! are now waging an indiscriminate war upon
them with savage ferOcity unknown 10
modern civilization. He compares the
present invasion 70 that Of Great Britain in
, Z 1881. which Was conducted in q more civ
. ilized manner Mankind shudders at the
> ouirages committed on defenceless females.
! by those pretending to be fellow citizens.
who depict their horror at the deliberate
. malignity. which, under the pretext of sup.
posing instruction, they make special
war on sick women and children, BY care
, fully devised measures to prevent their
e obtaining medicines necessary for their
= care.
> The sacred claims OF humanity are re-
spected BY all tie 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 cOntiaue iraternal connections. Such
b, outrages admit OF no retaliation, unless the
!, actual perpetrators are captured. Taylor's
. mission to Washir gton was to propose an
= exchange Of the prisoners taken on the pri.
!. vateer Savannah, and to inform Lincoln Of
!, the determined purpose TO check all bar
barities on prisoners Of war by such retail
iation, and effectually put an end to such
;, practice. Lincoln promised q reply, Blu,
. none has yet been received.
II Ia reference to the peculiar relations
. which exist between this government and
the states usually termed border slays
II states, which cannot properly be withheld
from notice, the hearts Of our people are
q animated by the sentiments towards she
Inhabitants Of these states which found
+ expression IN your enactment in refusing
to consider them enemies, or authoriss
hostilities against them A large portion
10 OF the people Of those states regard us a,
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q presence of large armies and the subyersior
N Of civil authority by the declaration Of
" martial law. some Of them ct least woulc
j. joyfully unite with Us. That they are al
most with entire unanimity opposed 10 III,
prosecution Of the war waged against ne
re the daily recurring events fully wsrrsu
e the assertion. The president Of the Unitel
Is states refuses to recognize IN these, ou-
u late sister states. the right Of refrainip,
le from an attack on us, and justices hn
>, refusal by the assertion that the states hay,
AT no other power than that reserved TO then
RI IN the Union by the constitution, no on,
OF them having been q state Of the Union
D. This new constitutional relation between
. the states and the general government, i, q
'e lifting REPUTATION 10 another assertion Of the
10 message, that the executive possesses tn.
power Of suspending the Aabeas corpus
" deiegatinG that power 70 military eomman
ders at discretion, and both Of these promo
=, sitions claim q respect equal 10 that which
- is felt for the additional statement In III,
" same paper that il is proper in order I.
:, execute the laws We may well rejoic,
!. that We have forever severed our connection
- with government that thus tramples or
all principles oil constitutional liberty, and
with people IN whose presence such ayov
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