Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-04-23
Address OF Jefferson Davis.
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTHERN con
FEDERACY.

| TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTHERN CON
FEpERACY.
Jefferson Davis has issued an address
to the people of the Southern Confederacy
urging them to devote their agricultural
labor to the production of food. He says
although the soldiers are on half rations
of meat, there is plenty of it IN the Con
federacy, but that difficulty exists in its
transportation, which is about to be rem
edied.
The address contains the following par
agraphs:
We have reached the close of a second
year of war, and may point with Just
pride to the history of our young confed-
eracy. Alone, unaided, we have met and
overthrown most formidable combinations
of naval and military arma-
ments, We began the struggle without
single gun efoat, yet we have captured,
sunk or destroyed number of vessels,
including two large frigates and one steam
sloop-of-war, while four of their captured
steam gunboats are now in our possession
adding to the strength of our little navy,
walch Is rapidly gaming in numbers and
'@aey to oppose the enemy's forces,
etflcl> nf leyies which already exceed
composed
A'2Q0'ooo iAoh 'urces but the uncon-
we hao no ioSo nle determined to
be fee. and were so dest w .ons no FP' ra
the, ten thousand of our cltl4 '-'' NV tLa.,
nctantly refused admission mo ''o .S SoI,
,ico from our inability to furnish mem
Will, with arms. while for many months tbe con
nnation Of some of our strongholo7 owe"
their safety chiefly to the careful conceal
ment of the fact that we were WlthQ0I
supplies of powder for our cannon. -FOUR
devotion and patriotism trampled over all
these obstacles and called INTO existence
munitions of war, clothing and SnosiS-
fence, which enabled our soldiers to Illus
, ! trate their valor on numerous battle-heIds,
and indict. crushing defeats on successive
| armies, each Of which our arrogant Zoe
8 londly imagined to be lnvlhclble'
= The contrast between our past and pres
G emit condition is well calculated to INSPIRE
I confidence in the triumph of our armies
At no previous period OF the war ;, nave
e orr armies been so numerous, so well Or
= gapized and so thoroughly disciplined
e armed and equipped as at present.
IS The season Of high water, on which ooi
a enemies relied to enable their fleet OF gun
boats to penetrate into our country ant
Is devastate our homes, is fast passing away
r vet our strongholds on the Mississippi stll
Is bid defiance TO the foe, and months c
III costly preparations have been spent
10 vain.
ne Disaster has been the result of ever
b. effort to burn or storm Vicksburg or Por
an Hudson, as. well as every attack o
ne our batteries on Red River, Tai
ne lahatche, and other navIgable streams
n within few weeks. The falling water
and the increasing heat of summer Wi
complete their discontinue, and compt
their baif1ed and displrited forces to aban
don the enterprise on which was base
their chief hopes of success In efiectn
our sublugatlon.
We must not forget, however that tn
war is not vet ended, and that we still al
confronted by powerful armies and threat
ened by numerous fleets, and that tina
. Government which controls those feet
and armies, are driven most desperate Ell
70 forts to effect their unholy purposes;
nc which it has thus far been defeated.
O. 1t will use the utmost energy to aver
he this impending doom so fully tnerlted b.
n the atrocities it has committed, the savag
H. barbarses it has encouraged, and tn
GROWING attempts to incite the servll
population to massacre our wives an
daughters and helpless children. WIT
as such a contest be ore us there Is but on
ok danger which the government OF You
r. choice regards with Apprehension, and
ng avert this dangerit appeals to the never
et failing patriotism and spirit YOU have e2
en- hibited since the beginning OF the war.
e Borrs.-John Minor Bolts, 50 long in
of generated. in the Libby prison, and i
n Salisbury. n. g., has been released throug
on the interposition of friend, aud has PEI
* mission to remain on his estate near Gol
lat louisville, under the aledge of not adm
IN or abetting the Union cause.
,pt Captain Boggs, of 'Naruna" fan
lat is now in command of the steamer Sacr;
Oh mcnto, stationed off Beaufort, North CA
ID. DINA, on blockading service The oth'
re- day he summoned his men before him an
of ma e the following characteristic speech
of "Men-I am afraid You do not keep q
- good . lookout as You ought ! am to-
that steamer ran m night before las
ne and, it is supposed rom our side. No
he I have a proposition to make To Il