Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-03-05

We have already published the Inaugural ad
dress of JEsFRhsor DAVE. delivered on the ~
- nil We no lay before oar readers his annua
message % the Confederate Congress. Th,
BIZ Provisional Government as II was called, Of th'
Southern CoDfederany having come TO on end
the world is.now presented With what Is assum
cd to be . permanent Government, with IL
Consultation. It's Legislative, executive and Judi
cial departments 10 operplion And We hav'
the arst annual message Of It's first President
JEFPERsoE DAVIS
The message isei conveys the impression
that theneW Government can hardly be expect
cd to be Of long duration. Speaking Of th'
' Provisional Government, DAVIS says, tha
"svents have demonstrated that 1t bad attempt
cd more than it had power successfully Il
acheve.D and that "results have not equalet
our hopes"
aeY 40 relationto the recent disasters that have
beiallen the rebel arms, DAVIS confines himself
10 The "dlscomhture at Roanoke Island and the
". fall Of Fors Djneson " Of these he had re-
oeised no official reports Enough was known
however, Of the surrender of Roanoke Island
''to make us feet" he says. "that it was deeply
humiliating." In regard to their reported losses
~ at Fort Donelson, be still entertained the hope
that they had been greatly exaggerated mas
much as ne was "both unwilling and unable TO
believe that 90 large an army had surrendered
without desperate effort to cut their way
through the investing forces" whatever mky
have been the numbers Of the latter He evi.
IDENTIFY regards the earlier period OF the war
just elapsed as on the whole unfortunate for the
g Confederate cause
DAVIS affects to place great reliance upon the
development Of The resources Of the Confeder-
3 sey to meet future wants. The policy of short
shiistments be has steadily opposed, and to this
policy ne attributes their recent reverses. The
hostility to the rebellion has become more in
tense and assumed more gigantic proportions
than the rebels expected, and instead Of short
war, ss they anticipated at the beginning, DAVIS
exhorts them to prepare for one to last for re-
ries Of years.
The rebel President says II is exceedingly
difficult to give an accurate statement Of the
number Of their forces now In the field; but
states them in general terms at four hundred
ASbHAeA1S Va ~ WIN PfUpottiuuhto iuIcec
OF artillery and cavalry. II is amusing to hear
DAVIS boasting Of the completion of q navy
on which the Coniederates may rely for con.
testing the control Of the United States over
Southern waters
DAVIS Gays the Confederate government has
"no floating debt" but how large funded one
il has, be does not condescend to state He
puts down lie expenditures foe the past year in
round numbers at one hundred and seventy mill
ions Of dollars.
IL will hardly escape attention and remark
that the message contains no allusion to the
negotiations with foreign powers for recOgni-
ton of the independence Of the Confederacy.-
1t Is reasonable to infer from this, that the ne.
gotiations attempted with that end in view, are
not in very Aourishing or promising condition,
else President DAVIS would not have preserved
studied silence on the subject.
We now leave the message in the hands Of
the reader for such further analysis and criticism
as be may choose to make. But whatever may
be Its mistatements of facts or its defective
reasoning, all will, we think, ccncede. that in
point Of style and brevity 1t s model mesB'
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