New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-20
MIR. DAvIss MESSAGE.

II Mr.. Jefferson DAVIS had been OTlDou 10 uc-
liver a message TO depress to the utmost the
spirits Of his followers and to fill with exulIa-
ton the heart of every lover Of the Union, he
could scarcely have published document more
ingeniously adapted to those ends than that
which we print this morning. Heretofore Mr..
DAVIS has seldom forgotten that he had to speak
70 two audiences, and his hlrangues to the
Richmond cabal were delivered always in tone
tina, was meant for the ear Of the rest of mnn-
kind. But lie has grown reckless as miSiortunes
accumulated, aud he now presents what Il
probably HE last message to so-caled Com
gress as if il were bis last speech and dying
confession.
Mr. Davis declares that the Rebellion is now
enyironcd with ports which it is a duty calmly
to contemplate. aud that 4" thus alone that Is
By contemplation only, We suppose-can the
measures necessary to avert threatened calami-
ties be devised and enforced shcrman's sue
ce~-es have had the effect of encouraging our
foes, and dispiritiug many of our people"
The Capital of tho Confederate states
is now threatened, and Il IS IA greater
danger han 1T has heretofore been during
The ear." To save it, there is but one
way, 1.-THE devotion Of the rhols resource Of
n,,n and money in the Confederacy." That is
frank, TO say the least Of il, and we shall wait
with interest to hear how the people of the
South who have already given nearly all they
are and all they have to the Rebellion, will re-
ceive the announcement that It's sole chance Of
success is in the sacrifice OF their miserable re-
mainder.
But Mr.. Davis stops not with general state
mentS; he proceeds to particulars. His scheme
is simple aud comprehensive. He proposes to
seize first the coin remaining in the country
Apprehensive that he may not be able to get it,
his second plan is to repeal that inconvenient
section Of the impressment law which requires
payment for goods to be made at the time of
taking them--u other words, proposes that the
Rebel Government shall take what it
wants where it can and pay when it
chooses. "None believe" says Mr.. Jeiter.
son Davis, "that the Government can
ever redeem in coin the obligation
to pay fifty dollars a bushel for corn, or seven
hundred dollnrs barrel for -four" (Our Gov
ornment has just closed contract for all the
-four it wants at SlI 80 barrel. Slight
diflcrence!) And whatever may be thought OF
the value Of J. DIS suggestions" he hopes
Congress will have no hesitation in passing a
law "to render it possible to supply the army
in case Of necessity"
Having thus provided for supplying
the army, he proposes next to have m
army to supply. He wants new militia
law, and incidentally lets ont the State
right views he has found prevailing among
certain Governors Eve guess Brown Of Georgia,
for one). A Governor has informed him that
"the law does not permit him to call out the
militia from one county for service in another"
so that we seem to have not merely State
right rights, but County rights, and We presume
town righN@nd probably ward rights, and then
house rights, which would result in the con-
venient maxim that no man can be called on to
fight for any other than his own particular affairs
and fires-and no more than he chose for those.
Behold the beauties Of the theory to maintain
which the Calhounists rebelled
Lest however this theory should be found
inconvenient in practice Mr. Davis wants the
habeas corpus suspended and slightly scolds his
Congress because they do not and will not
suspend it. eff not now," he says, "then l
confess myself at loss to imagine a contin-
gency in which such measure would be advis-
able" In other words matters iu the Confed.
eracy can never be at worse pass than now
so long as there is Confederacy. In which
We decidedly agree with the Rebel President.
Finally, not to make too long story of it,
J. ID. appeals with due Patio. to the Rebel Con-
gross to put things straight again. LIE perorates