Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-11-28

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House q Representatives ard Senate Of
tbe rsosl Congress on the 10Th and Goth
inst, and properly referred.
Joint resolutions defining the position Of
m Confederate States, and declaring the
determination Of the Con gress and the PEG.
NE thereof to prosecute the war till their
indepe dcnce il acknowledged.
RepolVsd. By the Congress Of the Confed-
erste States Of America, That the people Of
the Confederate States are endowed ~
their Creator with the inaliensble rights Of
life. liberty and the pursuit Of happiness
that to secure these high rights governments
we're instituted among men. deriving their
inst pow ers from the consent Of The govern
I'd. and. whenever any government becomes
des ructvc OF these ends, II H. the right OF
the peopIe TO alter or abolish il or TO insti-
tutc new government, laying its founda-
ton on such principles end organizing IT'S
nowcrs in such form ~ 10 them shall seem
most likely TO If ct their safety and hap
piuess that il these principles, embodied
in the Declaration OF American Independ
ence. the United Colonies Of 1873, dissolved
the connection that bound them to the gov
eminent a. Cir, ut Britain. and on them the
Confederate States have severed the bonds
Of that political Union which connected
them with the people and the Government
Of the United States Of America, rather than
submit to the repeated injuries inflicted up
on them by tho people, and 10 the usurpa,
tons Of that government, all OF which had
the direct object to deprive them of their
rights, rob them Of property secured to
them by constitutional guarantees. and to
establish al absolute tyranny over these
Eeso,sed. That the Con ederate States
appealed TO arms in defence Of these rights,
and to establish these principles only after
they had in vain conjured the people Of the
government Of the nitcd States, by all the
ties Of . common kindred; 10 discOuntenance
and discontinue these injuries and usurl a.
tions, and after they had petitioncd for re-
dress in the most appropriate terms, and
received in answer only = repetition OF in
suits and injuries, which foreshadowed
Lsurpstions still more dangerous to liberty.
Rtsoired, That after nearly four years Of
cruel, dcsolating ard unnatural war, in
which the people Of the Confederate states
have unquest,onaby established their ca
pac,ty Tor self government, and their ability
to resist the attempts OF the enemy to sub
jugatc them, this Congress does not hesitate
to aver its sincere desire for peace, and to
that end proclaims to the world the readi
ness OF the government OF Confederate
States to open negotiations to establish q
permanent and honorable peace between
the Confederate States and the United
States, upon the basis Of separate indepen.
dence Of the former.
Resolred, That the time has come when
the Conf dcrate Congress-, in the name Of
the people Of the Confederate States, deem
it proper to proclaim TO the world their un-
altcrable determination to be free, and that
they do not abste one jot Of their high re
solve to die fieemen rather than live slaves !;
0iu IuItucT, IL VIC pCOptc W Nue SuItcu
States, by rejoicing Abraham Lincoln,
mean 10 tender to them four years more Of
war. or re union with them Oh any terms,
deeply deprcciating the dire necessity so
wan;only thrust upon them, and relying
upon the justice Of their cause and the gal.
lantry Of their soldiers, they accept the
gage If battle, and leave the result to the
righteous arbitrament of Heaven.
Rssolrca, i hat in view Of the determine
ton OF the enemy to prosecute this horrid
war still further, against which the Conled
crate States have at all times protested, and
which the enemy have waYed with cxtraor
dinary vigor. and which has been marked
BY acts oil extraordinary atrocity, in viola
ton Of the usages of civilized wa fare, the
Congress Of the Contcde ate States will,
from this hour, dedicate themselves anew to
the great cause oil Sei-deiencc against the
combined tyranny Of the enemy. That it
shall no longer be the inomentuous occupa-
ton III the Congress and Of the people Of the
Confederate States, but the business Of their
lives. to gather together the entire strength
Of the country, in men and material Of war,
and put 1t forth, as the will OF one man, and
with An unconQuerab.e determination TO de-
fond their alters and their tircsidcs till the
last votory Of freedom falls around them.
The Davenport Nlanllestat1Oms.