The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-08-10
BY LAST NIGHTS MAIL
Ad,r,,. of Jef. Davis to His soldiers.

Address of JEFF. Davis to His Soldiers.
~---, 4uvnE, august THE Ameri-
can of this evening has Richmond pa
pers of the 9TH, which contain the fol-
lowing address of the President to the
soldiers of the Confederate States"
After more than two years of war,
scarcely equaled in the number, magni-
tude and fearful carnage of its battles,
warfare in which your courage and
f,rtitude have illustrated your cause
and attracted not only gratitude at home,
but admiration abroad, your enemies
continue a struggle in which final tri-
umph must be inevitable Unduly ella
ted with their recent successes, they inn
agine that temporary reverse can uuell
your spirits or shake your determina-
ton, and they are now gathering heavy
masses for a general invasion, in the
vain hope that BY desperate effort sue
cess may at length be reached.
"You know too well, my countrymen,
what they mean by success. Their ma
lignant rage aims at nothing less than
the determination of yourselves, your
wives and your children. They seek to
destroy what they cannot plumber. They
propose, as spoils of victory, that your
homes shall be partitioned among the
wretches whose atrocious cruelty have
stamped infamy on their Government.
They design to incite servile insurrec-
ton, and light the fires of incendiarism
wherever they can reach your homes,
and they debauch an inferior race here
tofore docile and contented by promis-
ing them the indulgence of the vilest pas
sions as the price of their treachery.
Conscious of their inability to pre-
vail by legitimate warfare, not daring to
make peace lest they should be hurled
from their seats of power, the men who
now rule in Washington refuse even
to confer on the subject of putting an
end to outrages which disgrace our age,
90 Estnn TO suggestion for conducting
the war according to the usages OF civil
ization.
"Fellow-Citizens: No alternative is
left you but victory or subiugation.
slavery and the utter ruin of yourselves,
your families and your country. The
victory is within your reach, you need
but to stretch forth your hands to grasp
it. For this, all that is necessary is that
those who are called to the field by every
motive that can stir human hearts,
should promptly repair to the post of
duty, should stand by their comrades
now in front of the foe, and thus SO
strengthen the armies of the Confede.
racy rs to insure success"
Davis then appeals to those who have
absented themselves from their posts to
return to duty, and declares a general
pardon and amnesty to all officers and
men now absent without leave who shall
without delay return to their posts, or
within twenty days after the publication
of this Proclamation, in the State where
the absentee may be. This pardon ex-
tends to all who have been accused or
convicted, and are undergoing sentence !
for absence without leave, or desertion,
excepting those twice convicted of de- |
sertion. He then says, FINALLY l con-
jure my countrywomen, wives, mothers, |
sisters and daughters of the Confederacy, |
to use their allpowerful influence in aid |
of this call, and to add one GROWING
sacrifice to those which their patriotism
has so freely and constantly offered on
their countrys altar, and to take care that
none who owe service in the field should
be sheltered at home from the disgrace
OF having deserted their duty to their
families. their country, and their God.
JEFFERSON DAVIS"