New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-07-22
ASSEMBLING OF THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS
PRESIDENT DAVIS MESSAGE
LBY TIE sourHwr5rEES AND AMERICAS LISEs.l


RICHMOND, July 20,COEgrcss met to-day, pug-
sualt to adjournment
The following is President Davis message to
Congress, which was read in open session:
GeRtemeH--My message, addressed TO you at
the commencement OF tie session. contains such
tullniormaliOn OF the state OF the ContederaCY as
to render il unnecessary that l should now Go
more than call your attention to such important
facts as have occurred during recess. ana to mat
ters connected with the public defence.
= | have again to congratulate you on the acces-
sion OF new members to our confederation OF Tree,
equal, sovereign States Cur loved and honorGd
brethren of North Carolina and Tennessee have
consummated the action foreseen and provided for
atayour last session. and l have had the gratiGca-
ton of announcing By proclamation in conformity
with a law that those States were admitted into
the C0nfederacy. The people of Virginia, aIso by
a majority previously unknown i'll her history,
have ratified the action OF her ConventOn-uni0ng
her fortunes with ours. Tie states OF Arkansas.
North Carolina and Virginia have likewise adopted
the permanent Constitution OF the Confederate
States and no doubt is entertained Of its adoption
by Tennessee at the election to be held early next
month.
| deemed it advisable to direct the removal Of
the several Executive Departments with their
archives to this city, to which you had removed
the seat of Government.
immediately after your adjournment, the aggres-
sive movements of the enemy required prompt,
energetic action, The accumulation of his forces
sufficiently demonstrated that his efforts were to
be directed against Virginia, and from point
could necessary measures for her defence aud pro-
lection be so ettectually directed as from her own
capital. -
The rapid progress of events for the last few
weeks has fully sufTiced to strip the vail behind
which the true policy and purposes OF the Govern
ment of the United States had been concealed.
Their odious features now stand fully revealed.
The message of theF President, and the action of
their Congress during the month, confess the nten-
ton OF the subjugation of these States by a war
whose folly is equaed by its wickedness-a war
which 1t is impossible to attain the proposed result
while its dire calanites, which cannot be avoided
by us, will tall with double severity on them,
selves.
Commencing in March last with an affeetation OF
ignorance of the secession OF seven States which
first organized the Government; persisting in April
in an idle and absurd assumption Of the existence
| Of riot which was to be dispersed by Il posse
cOnlttQttS: continuing in successive months the
false representation that these States intended
offensive war, in spite of conclusive evidence to
the contrary, furnished as we'll by official action as
by the very basis on which this Government is con
stituted the President Of the United Statesnd his
advisers succeeded in deceivng the people of those
States into the belief that the purpose Of this Gov
eminent was not peace at home, but conquest
| abroad; not defence of its own people, but the
| subverslon of those of the people OF the United
| States.
| The series of maneuvers by which the impres
sion was eleated, the ART with which they were de
! vsed, and the pertidy with which they were exc
) cRfea, we've n're1dF Known to Won, h1t you conf
| scarcely have supposed that they would be openly
| ayOwed, and their success made the subject Oi
boast and self-laudaton in an Executive message.
| Fortunately for truth in history, however, the
| President Of the United States details with eX
| treme mnuteness the attempt to reinforce For
| PiGkens in violation of aruiStice of which he
confessed to have been informed, but only by ru
mors vague aud uncertain Information 10 Greats
attention.
The hostile expedition dispatched to reipforct