Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-03-01

sen. Davis Inaugural
The Inaugural Of Jsf Davis Is not worth
publishing in full. He says that he appears
befOrs hia fellow citizens aWith mingled
feelings Of humility and pride" and is pro-
foundly oppressed with sense Of his re-
sponsibility, and his own unWOrthiness.
Then he commences the tissue Of falSehOod,
which extend through the whole Of the ad-
dress 70 the blasphsmOus eOmmittAl Of the
Oonfederaoy 10 Providence at the close.
BE speaks Of the ''clAss legislation, direct.
ed not 70 the general welfare, but to the
sggrandiIsnsnt Of the Northern section Of
the Union" which ''culminalsd in q war
fare on the domestic Institutions Of the
Southern States IS II the South had not
ruled the whole country for the last fifty
years, and hsd everything her own way
until within the past twelve mOnths,a and as
Il the South had not forced her domestic in
stitutions upon the North under the threat
Of disuniOn II the demandWas refused. 1.-THE
mAlignity and barbArity Of the Northern
states In the prosecution Of this war" are
commented upon, As II anything could by
any possible refinement Of cruelty, equal
the vandalism of the rebels in Missouri
and Tennessee, and as If the rebel prison
ers and wounded did not receive that kind
ness and attention from our soldiers that
are the direct opposite Of the treatment
which the rebels gave the prisoners they
took at Bulls Run and confined in tobacco
warehouses, to be shot IL they ventured to
catch a glimpse of sunlight or breath Of
air at an open window he says that there
has been no act on their part ITO impair per-
sonal liberty or the freedom of speech, of
thought and the press" If this is so, how
comes it that ParsOn Brownlow is in prison
and that no Union man dare express his
opinions within the limits of the secession
pOWer2
Speaking then of the OOnfederacy, he says
that a new Government has been put in OP-
Grafton over an area exceeding seven hundred
thousand square miles. But he does not tell
his psOpls-probably because they are al
ready too well aware of it-ihat the Federal
flag floats over all but two Of the States
claimed to belong to the Oonfederacy, and
that that Gag, in the language of Gen. Hal
leck, 'tshsll never be removed"
He says OF the war, that, although the tide
of battle is just now against them, the result
in their favor Is not doubtful. If he was
fully convinced of that why did he not sp-
point yesterday a Thanksgiving Day instead
of Fast day. We too, think that the final
result 'is not doubtful" but we differ with
him as to the side which is to win.
BE speaks then Of the unanimity with
which the people of the South have rallied to
the support of the COnfederacy. Possibly the
Union sentiment which was discovered in
the recent expedition up the Tennessee to
Florence, Alabama, had been overlooked by
Davis in reading the reports Of the Fort Hen
~ fight. If so, be will do well to study the
record Of that expedition.
He says that they hsd neither expected
nor asked aid from any quarter. Of course
not. Messrs. Yancey, Mann, Mason and Sill
dell went abroad merely for their own pleas
ure; not to seek recognition and aid from
England and France. And Of course it is all
false that promises of free trade were made
by those commissioners to these countries, il
they would only step in and raise the block
ade.
This is the substance of the address. The
rest-we may say, all Of its bombast.
There are no statistics, no facts-only ran.
dom and rhetorical assertions. 1t is notice.
able that Davis says not word about slavery
except incidentally, as one of the causes of the
war. The subject is evidently becoming q
tender one to the rebels.
mr.. seuIer, the Herald and the Camp Tay'