The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-15
MESA GE OF THE PRESIDENT.

The following message was transmitted
to Congress ON Monday:
| To the Senate and House Of Representa-
tires Of tile Confederate States Of
america:
When informed on Thursday last that
it was the intention of Congress to ad-
journ sine die on the ensuing Saturday,
| deemed it my duty to request post
ponement of the adjournment, in order
that might submit, for your considera-
ton, certain matters of public interest,
which are now laid before you. When
that request was made, the most i'm
portant measures that had occupied your
attention during the session had not
been so far advanced as 70 be submitted
for executive action, and the state of the
country had been so materially affected
by the events Of the last four months as
to evince the necessity of further and
more energetic legislation than was con-
templated in November last
Our country is now environed with
perils which it is our duty calmly to con-
template. Thus clone can the measures
necessary to avert threatened calami-
ties be wisely devised and efticientlyen
forced.
PROGRESS OF THE WAR.
Recent military operations Of the enc
my have been successful in the capture
Of some Of OUR seaports, in interrupting
some of our lines OF communication, and
in devastating large districts of our coun-
try. These events have had the natural
effect Of encouraging our foes and dis
piriting many of our people. The capt.
tai Of the Confederate States is now
threatened, and is in greater danger than
it has heretofore been during the war;
The fact is stated without reserve or CON-
cealment as due to the people whose SER
wants we are, and in whose courage and
sonstancy entire trust is reposed; as due
to you, in whose wisdow and resolute
spirit the people have confded for the
adoption Of the measures required to
guard them from threatened perils.
While stating to you that our country
is in danger, desire also to state my
deliberate conviction that it is within
our power to avert the calamities which
menace us, and to secure the triutnph of
the sacred cause for which so much
sacrifice has been made, so much suffer
ing endured, so many precious lives been
lost. This result is to be obtained bv
fortitude.. by courage, by conseancy in
|. enduring the sacrifices still needed: in
word, by the prompt and resolute de-
votion of the whole resources of men
and money in the Confederacy to the
achievement of our liberties and indie.
pendence. :.
The measures now required, to be
successful, should be prompt. Long de.
Liberation and protracted debate over
important measures are not only natu-
raj, but laudable in representative as
semblies under ordinary circumstances /:
but in moments of danger, when action
becomes urgent, the delay thus caused
is itself new source of peril. Thus it
has unfortunately happened that some
of the measures passed by you in pur-
suance of the recommendations con-
tanned in my message of November last
have been SO retarded as to lose much of
their value, or have, for the same rca-
son, been abandoned after being ma.
tured. because no longer applicable to
our altered condition; and others have
not been brought under examination.
In making these remarks. it is far from
my intention to attribute the loss of
time to any other causes than those in
herent in deliberatve assemblies but
only urgently to recommend prompt &C.
ton upon the Measures now submitted.
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