The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-22

! Message of President Davis 10 the Confet,er
ate Congress at EichmOnd.
! RICHMOND, Via New Orleans,) July 20 Pres
| dent Davis Inaugural Message to the Confederate
! Congress commences bv calling attention to the
cause which formed the Cnn'ederacy. He says 1T is
now only necessary to aliude To such facts as have
occurred during the receTs and matters connected
with the public defence. He congratulates Con
gress the acquisition to the Conederacy of three
sovereign States.
The accumulation of the enemy's forces on the
Potomac sufficiently demonstrated that the efforts
of the Lincoln Government were to be directed
| against Virginia. and from no point could her de-
fence and protection be so efficiently directed as
from Capitol The rapid progress OF
events during the last few months has stripped on
the veil behind which the true policy and purposes
of the Lincoln Government had previously been
concealed. They have now been, he says, fully re-
| vealed.
The Message of President Lincoln and the action
of the present Congress of the United States, con-
fess an intention of subug atng the seeded States,
| by a war of folly, ,equaled only by its wicKedness-
| war bv which it is impossible to attain the pro-
| posed result, whilst its dire caamities Will la
| doubly severe on themselves.
Commencing last March with an affectation of
! ignorance OF secession of those States which had
originated the Confederate Government. Persist
ing in April in the absurd assumption of the exist
| ence of riot which was to be dispersed by the
posse comafus continuing for several successive
months the false representation that these States
intended offensive war, in spite of conclusive evil
dence to the contrary; the President of the United
Sta es and his advisors succeeded in deceiving the
people of those States into the belief that the pur
poses of this Government were not peace at home,
but conquest abroad-not defence of our liberties,
but the subversion of the liberties of the people Of
the United States.
The series OF manoeuvres by which this impression
was crea ted, and which devised in peridy al
ready known fortunately for the truth of history.
Lincoln's message minutely detailed the attempt
to reinforce Fort Sumter in violation of an armis
tice, which he confesses to have been informed of
only BIZ rumors too vague and uncertain to create
any attention. The hostile expedition OF the des-
patch to supply Fort Sumter s admitted to have
been undertaken with the knowledge that its sue
impossible, he charges these States to be
the assaiants of the Union. The world cannot
misunderstood this unfounded pretence.
|. President Davis then compares the present in
vasion with that of Great Britain, but which was
conducted in more civilized manner.
Mankind will shudder at Outrages being
committed on defenceless females by those pretend
ing to be their teIow-citizens.
Who can depict the horrors which they regard
with deliberate malignity, and, under pretext of
suppressing insurrecton, make special sick
women and children by withholding medicines
eessary for their cure. The sacred claims of hu-
manity, respected by all nations, in the fury
of battle, by careful deviation from attack hos
pitfalls, is outraged by Government which
pretended to desire continuance of traternal con-
nection. Such outrages admit OF no retaliation,
unless the actual perpetrators should be captured.
Col. Taylor mission to W ashingtOn was for the
purpose of efiecting the exchange of prisoners
taken the privateer Savannah. He informed
President Lincoln of our determined purpose to
check all barbarities on prisoners OF war by such
retaliation would efectuay put an end to such I
practices President Lincoln promised a reply, |
which has not been received
In reference the peculiar relations existing be-
tween this Government aud the States usually |
called Border Slave States, he says that some |
would have united with US, as they are with almost
entire uuanimity opposed to the prosecution |
Of the with US, but these States which |
regard US as brethren, restrained By the |
actual presence of large armies subversive
of the civil authority; and the declaration
of martial law, the President declaring that in
der to execute the law, some single law, made with
extreme tenderness of the citizens liberty, may to
a limited extent be violated. We may we'll reoic.
that We have forever severed our connection with
a government that thus tramples upon all the
principles of constitutional liberty; and with the
PEOPLE in whose presence such an avowal may be
paraded.
Operations in the field will be greatly extended
by reason of the policy which has heretofore been
secretly entertained, and now armed and acted
upon by the United States. The force hitherto
raised would have proved ample for the defence
of the seven States which originally organized the
Confederacy.
Excepting on those fortified islands which the
enemy's naval force enabled them to retain, be
has been driven out. Now at the expiration of
five months from the formation of that Govern
ment not single hostile foot presses their soil
Our forces, however, must necessarily prove in
adequate to the reported invasion BY half million
men, as now proposed by the enemy. A CORES
ponding increase of forces, therefore, becomes
necessary.
Our crops are now the most abundant ever known
IN history. Many believe the supply is adequate
.wo years consumption Our citizens maniftst. a
audable pride in upholding their independence,
luaided by any other resources save their own.
The subscription to the loan proposed by the Gov
ernment cannot fall short of 900, and will
probably exceed that sum.
THE foregoing is all that has been received up to
]. 80 this A. M.-Reporter.1