Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-29
Soulhrra Esus.

thinks tnaJ great UAttic Was iii pNAtti"o
between the rebel army on the Rapldan
and Gen. Pope's forces, at such time when
their Generals Were ready, and not be-
fore, and that the battle field would be IN
the vicinity OF Culpcpper {. IL.
The rebel Congress met IN 1tIehmond
on the 18th inst, on which occasion Jeii.
Davis submitted his annual message.-
He leads of in his usual hvpocritieal style
and then allules to the Federal Goyern-
ment as robbers, assassins, Sc., al l1st9et-
tuDa He speaks of and recommends res
taIiatorv measures to meet the late law
recently passed by the Federal Govern
mcnt. He also recommends the issue Of
moro rebel treasury shin plasters, and al
ludcs to the building Of rebel war veS-
sells at home and abroad.
The message betrays great signs OF
weakness in the rebel Government, for
such arguments are acquiesced IN as mur-
der, rapine, &c. under the name ot retail
iatory.
After alluding to the suffering Of the |
people and the eallaatry of the troops, /
f., savs. The vast army which threat /
ened the capital Of the Coniederacy, has
been defeated anti driven from lines of
investment, and the enemy repeatedly
seeking to raise new armies on a scale such
as modern history does not record, to ef-
feet that sublugation of the South 50 Of
ten proclaimed as on the eve Of accom-
plishnIent.
Davis then charges the United States
with rapine, wauton destruction ot prl-
vate property, murder of captives, etc,
and speaks OF the confscation bill as at
81. ,l,lf pf
the Confederate Government are forged
nv citizens of the United States, and at
least two Generals of the United States
are engaged in exciting servile insurrec-
ton another has been found of instincts
so brutal as to invite the violence of his
soldiery against women of captured
town.
He mentions General Butler subsc-
quently.
Davis then says to the inquiries made
in the Conmander-in-C Chief of the ar
mics of the United states, whether the
atrocious conduct Of some of their COM
manlants meets the sanction OF that
Government an answer had been evaded,
on the pretext that the inquiry was in
sulting. and no method remains for the
suppression of these enonnites but such
rctributive Justice as it may be found
possible to execute Retaliation is kind
for many of them is impracticable, and
| have had occasion to remark IN a former
message, that under no excess OF provo
cation could our noble hearted defenders
be driven to wreak vcngcncc on unarmed
men or women and children. But stern
and exemplary punishment can and must
be meted to the murderers and telons
who arc disgraeing the professions Of
arms seek to make public war the oeea-
sion for the commission of the most
monstrous crimes.
Deeply as we regret the character o
the contest into which we are about to be
forced, we must accept it as an alterna-
tive, which recent manifestations give us
little hope can be avoided. The exaSper-
alton of failure has aroused the worst pas
sions of our enemies, and a large portion
Of their people, even of their elergymen,
is now engaged in urging an excited pop
ulace to the extreme OF feroclty, and
nothing remains but to vindicate our
rights and to maintain our existence by
employing against our foe every energy
and every resource at our disposal.
Davis recommends further Legislation
to make the conscripts universal alst
the issue of additional treasury notes
also some legislation for controlling mil
itary transportation. He says tho
very large Increase Of forces recently
called into the field by the President oi
the United States, may render it necessa-
ry hereafter to extend the provisions o
the conscription law, SO as to embrace
persons between the ages of fifteen ant
forte-five years. The vigor and efficiency
of our present force, and their condition
and the skill and ability which distin
guish their leaders, inspire the belle
that no more enrolment will be necessary
but a wise foresight requires, if a necessl
ty should be suddenly developed during
the recess of Congress, requiring incrcaS
of our defence, means should exist fo
calling such forces into the field, withou
awaiting the reasscmbling of the legisla
tive department of the Government.
The rest of the message is unimpor
tant.
In the rebel house of Peers, Foote c
Tennessee, offered a bill for retalitol
purposes. 1t recites that the enemy re
fuse to treat our partison soldiers as pris
oncrs, and have also punished innoccu
private citizens for their actions. 1t pro
vides that any officer who may have OF
dered such atrocities be put to death
captured. An equal number of prisoner
officers to be preferred, taken from the er
envy to suffer the fate inflicted on our eal
tured soldiers or citizens.
Also, bill to punish negroes in arm
1t provides that the Federal armies, il
cungruously composed of white and blacl
shall not be held to the priE1esis of wal
or to be taken prisoners. Of snch !
may be captured the negroes shall be r'
turned to their masters or publicly sol
and their commanders publicly hang q
shot, as may be most convenient.
Also offered a bill to retaliate for til
seizure of citizens by the enemy.
provides that of the prisoners held by u
a number equal to that of the eitizel
seized shall be held as hostages for the
safety, and be subjected 10 like trca
ment.
ANY officer, civil or military, eOHcerl
cd in their seizure, shall be mprlsont
during the war.
All the bills were referred to the mi
itary ceFamittee-
Mr.. Feote offered bill to provide f
raising an additional force of two hun
red and fifty thousand. On his own III
ton, it was laid on the table. Als@,
export duty of twenty per cent, on &C
ton and tobacco, to aid in indemnifyil
the losses of citizens by the enemy.
The Federal FE0s in Virginia
The National Intelligencer of Saturd
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