The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-03-07
Ian. nnvis,s Nlesanre.

We publish in another place the last
Message of Jefferson Davis, as President of
the Confederate States OF America II ia
bat lachrymose composition. Melancholy
pervades every paragraphs, and we almost
fancy that a tear rounds every sentence.
His Inaugural Address on Westinghouse
birthday was gloomy enough, but the Mes
sage is the last vail Of despair itself.
Finding it is folly to any longer attempt
position of affairs, since the recent victories
of the Federal armies, he makes a virtue of
necessity and frankly acknowledges the ex-
tent of the disasters. He is now free to
admit that his cloth was entirely dispropor-
tionate TO the size of the garment he de-
signed making-the lions skin was too
short to completely disguise the animal that
wore it. " The Government says JEFF.
attempted more than az had posoer success
fully to achieve" Just so. But how is it
so selEevident proposition has been SO kept
in the dark that the Southern people have
been persistently deceived, both as to their
own and their opponents resources2 So
The superiority of the Northern States,
both in men and means, was urged by
Northern papers to prevent the Southern
people from going to the length of provok-
ing a display of that superiority; but all in
vain. "Cotton is king "-sEuropean
Powers will be forced to acknowledge our
independence "-"one Southern man can
whip five Northerners "-madly cried the
rebel leaders, and the rank and file believed
the silly lies, until the desoIations of the
blockade and the accommodating hosts Of
Northern well-armed, well equipped soldiers
lowering on their frontiers warned them of
the fatal error in which they had fallen.
Jefferson Davis was not unacquainted with
the Northern people-their ingenuity and
resources. Only a few months before the
rebellion he travelled all over the New Eng
land States, visiting their foundries, arsenals
and ship yards, and making hypocritical
speeches Mandatory of the Union He was
not deceived as-to the power of the North
ern States
But ne was deceived none. one thing ... He
ed, the States comprising it were, in the
peculiar character of their pursuits, and a
misplaced confidence IN their former associ-
ates, to great extent destitute of the means
for the prosecution of the war on so gigan-
tic a scale as that to which it has attained"
He calculated on the cooperation Of has
former associates political associates, we
- he
ed to obtain that assistance necessary to
prosecute the war on a gigantic scale
Some of them have aided him to the extent
their cowardly natures would permit. Some
gave him friendly letters, recommending
improved firearms; others smuggled into
his dominions articles badly needed and
others, lacking even the courage to do
this much, did what little they could 20 ere
ate dissension in the ranks Of the trne
Union men, by designating the struggle as
an invasion of Southern rights" an
abolition war;" and " Lincoln foray. -
The President of the 90 called Confederate
States was not deceived as to the DISPOSE
ton of these men, he only miscaIenlated
their power. Accustomed to witnessing
the blind devotion with which the South
ern people follow the examples and teach
ings of their political leaders, he blunder-
ingly concluded the same thing was true of
the free States. There is just this difference
between the two sections, JEFF Ia the
South, the leaders make the politics of the