True Democrat., 1863-02-04
Synopsis of President Davis Message.
 From the Memphis Appeal Ot Jan. Is.

Synopsis of President Davis Message.
 From the Memphis Appeal ot Jan. l5.
 RICHMOND, Jan. l4.-Congress met to-day, atl2 \. The Presidents message read and appropriately referred. It Is principally devoted to the consideration of olr foreign res lations, but Tn the outset, in aluding to the ef> forts of our enemy to subjuSate us, the Prssl- dent says that our noble defenders under the leadership of their generals, have again. at Fredericksburg, inflicted on the forces of Gen. Burnside the like disastrous overthrow as had been previously suffered by the successive n- vading armies commanded by Generals Me- Cleilan and Pope. Our enemies had been batfled in the west, and at Nicksburg another formidable expedition had been repulsed with inconsiderable loss on our side.
 A review of our history during the two years of our national existence. afforded ample cause for congratulations and demanded the most tervent expression of our thAnkfulness to the Almighty Father, who has blessed our cause.- We were justified in assertiug that these Con- federate States have afforded another example of the impossibility of subjugating people de- termiued to be free, aud have demonstrated that no superiority Of numbers, or of available resources, can overcome the resistance offered by such valor in combat, such constancy in suffering, and such cheerful endurance of pri- vation as have been conspicuvusly displayed by this people in the defense of th ir ri2h al liberties; and If be as resolute in the futu.s as we have been in the past. this would be the closing year of the war, for much as peace was desired, the people were determined to battle until the sovereignty and ind pendents of the Conf deracy was established.
 After explaining the r, latlon existing be- tween the States under the old Confederation, l. nd afi into 8 new union, and the formation of their go,s ernment, known as the Confederate States, the President goes on to speak of our foreign re- latioas He says that had Great Britian and France used the powers to which, the most interested, the leadership given, prJmtly 1 recognized us none can doubt that the m ral et- feet would have been to dispel the deusion un- d,.r which the United States have persisted in their efforts to accomplish our subjugation.- To the continued hesitation of the same pow trs, in rendering this act of simple justice, was still dae the continuance of the calamites which mankind suffers from the interruption of its l peaceful pura uits both in the old and tho new world.
 | After reviewing the question of privateerlng, the Pie .idept says that the records of our State | deparments contain the evidence of the re peated and formal rem onstrances made by this vovoruneut to the neutral powers Ot Europe, against the recognition of the blockade, which had been shown to have been broken hundreds of times, which the enemy and themselves had admitted to have been intellectual, in the ID lost forcble manner, by repeated complaints of the sale of goods to us coutrabant Of war, and which they acknowledged their inability to ren- der effective. Still Europe had submitted, in almost unbroken science, to all the wrongs the United States have chosen to inilict on their l ,I ,f Rr.t, admitted itself it had not conformed 10 the principles laid down by the Congress of Paris, but had made a change soo important and | preudca to the interests of the Con federacy to be owe loyked and consequently, the Presi- | d.nt had soemaly protested, after vain at 1 tempt to obtain auy satisfactory explanation | from the British government.
 | The fourth proposition of the Congress of | Paris declared that the blockade must be main tained by fol c. sufficient really to prevent ac | cess to the coast o. th4 enemy, but the British | Secretary of State had construed the American 1 blockade to be sufficient, because 1t was duly notified that number of ships were stationed at different ports sufficient really to prevent ac- cess to it, or to create an evident danger of en- tering 1t, or leaving it; but the President had no complaint to make on the ground of dec
 laration of neutrality. The complaint was that l the neutrality had been rather nominal than | real and that recognized neutral rights had been alternately asserted and waived in such manner as to bear with great severity on us, and to confer signal advantages on our enemy.
 He had hitherto restrained from calling the atten ion o! Congress to the condition of our foreign relations for various reasons, the chief of which was that 1t might be construed into an appeal for aid. Now it could not be mis- construed. Still it would not be proper to close | ,-l-. aAu ,pp to the fact that the correspondence between England, France and Russia, recently publish ed indicated gratifying appreciation by those governments of the true interests of mankind as l involved in the war on this continent.
 | After referring to the renewed examples of atrocities on the part of the enemy, and the re- cent proclamation of Lincoln, which he says will have, among others, the effect of calming the fears of those who apprehended that the war might end in the reconstruction of the old union, the President proceeds to discuss the question of finance. It Is his conviction that the people of the Confederacy would freely meet exactons on 8 scale adequate to the support of their government, and the passage of some enactment to carry on still further policy of the law of last session, for funding the out standing treasury notes by the fixing of a lmi- tation not later than the lst of July next. to the delay allowed for funding the notes issued prior l
 to the lst of December, 1882.
 This would, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, have the effect of withdrawing
 from circulation nearly the. entire sum issued, previous to the4ast named date.
 The President specially recommends some revision of the exemption law of last session so as to leave at homo suff ,ent loyal police, without making any discrimination between the different class of citizens. Various complaints had reached him of the inconsistencies of it's working.
 Attention was also called to the report of the | Secretary of War and the Navy, and the report of the Postmaster General. The revenue of the latter was in excess of that of the last postal year, but there was still considerable def ciency, as compared with its expenses, and he recon mended some legislation, if any could constitutionaly be devised, for aiding the reve- nue of that department during the ensuing year.
 | The President also recommends proper relief to those citizens, whose property has been destroyed by order of the government as 8 means of defense. In conclusion hs asks the people of the Cons federacy, to join in returning thanks to God, and iii beseechng the continuance of his pros tectng care over their cause and the restoration of peace, and it's manifold blessings, to their beloved country.
 | MARRIED.-Januaryt the 5th, 1863, at the resi- 1 dence of the brides mother, Batesvile Ark, by the Rev. Wm. R. Foster, Captain JoE LEDDY, of St. Louis, to Miss ANNIE MINIkEN, of Batesville,