The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-08-11
JET. to His rellow-Rebeis.
BALTIMORE, Aug.


The American OF this evening has
Richmond papers of the 9Th, which con
tain the following address of the Presi-
dent of the Confederate States:
After more than two years of war, one
scarcely e9ualled in the number magni
tude and fearful carnage of its battles, a
wafare in which your courage and forti-
tude have illustrated your country and
attracted not only gratitude at home, but
admiration abroad. your enemies continue
a struggle in which our final triumph
must be Inevitable.
Unduly elated with their recent sue
cesses, they imagine that temporary re-
verses can quell our spirits or shake ouI
determination. They are now gathering
heavy masses for general invasion, in
the vain hope that by desperate effort
success may at length be reached. You
know too well my countrymen, what they
mean by success. Their malignant rage
aims at nothing less than the extermina
ton of your slaves, your women and your
children. They propose as spoils of vic
tory that y our homes shall be portioned
among wretches whose atrocious cruelty
has stamped infamy on their government
They design to create ssrvils instruction
and light the fires of incendiarism wherev-
er they can reach your homes, and they
debauch an inferior race heretofore docile
and contented, by promising them the in
diligence OF the vilest passions as price
OF their trenchery.
Conscious of inability to prevail by To-
gitimate warfare, not daring to make
peace lest they should be hurled from
their seats of power, the meu who now
rule in Washington refuse even to confer
on the subject of putting an end to outra.
ges which disgrace our age, or listen to a
suggestion for conducting the war accord
to the usages of civilization. Fellow-cit.
liens, no q tentative is left you but subju-
cation, slavery and the utter ruin of your
selves. your families aud 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 ia those who nne called to the
field by every motive that can nerve hu
man hearts, should stand by their CON-
-rades now ih front of the foe, and thus 30
strengthen the Confederacy as to ensure
success.
Davis then appeals to those who have
absented themselves from their posts, to
return to their duty, and declares a gen.
eral pardon and amnesty to all officers
and men now absent without leave, who
shall without delay return to their posts
within twenty days after the publication
Of this proclamation in the State where
the absentee may be.
This pardon extends to oil who have
been accused or convicted and are under
going sentence for absence without leave
or dessrtion, excepting those twice CON-
victed of desertion.
He then says, finally:
1 conjure my country women, wives,
mothers, sisters, and daughters of the
Confectionery to use their all powerful in
Auenee in AVID of the call, 70 add one
GROWING sacrifice TO those which their
patriotism has SO freely and constantly
offered on their oountry's altar, and 10
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.
lSigned) JEFFERSON DAVIS.
). +. BENZ AMIN. Secretary of State.