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rcfftoce during tln» whole period of the , any new confederation that independent
w»r Neutral Europe remained pasaivo State* may think proper to form, »»« oo
when the United States, with a naval clear to admit of denial, but its pos pone-
force insufficient to blockade, effectively, ment was eminently bene cial o le
the coast of a siugle State, proclaimed a United States and detrimental o e
paper blockade oi thousands of miles of Confederacy. It was postponed,
coast, extending from the capes of the \ In this review of our relations with the
Chesapeake to Those of Florida, and encir- | neutral nations of Europe, it has baen m/
cling the Gulf of Mexico iron, Key West purpose to point out distinctly that this
to the mouth of the Rio Grande.-Com- j Government has no complaint to make
pared with this monstrous pre.ension of that those nations declared their neutrah-
the United States, the blockade known in ty. It could neither expect nor desire
history, under the names of the Berlin and more. I he complaint is that he neu-
Milan decrees, and the British orders in tial.ty has been rather neutral than real,
• ’ ' and that recognized neutral rights have
been alternately asserted and waived in
such manner as to bear with great severity
on us, and to confer signal advantages on
Council, in the years ISOGand B-'G
declared
into insignificance ? ^«*t those blockades
were jusTified by the powers that
them, on the sole ground that they were
retaliatory; yet those b ockades have
since been condemned by the publicists of
those very powers as violations of interna
tional law ; yet those blockades evoked
angrv remonstrances from neutral powers,
amongst which the United States were
the most conspicuous ; yet those blockades
became the chief cause of the war between
Great Britain and the United States in
1812 ; yet those blockades were one of the
principal motives that led to the declara
tion of the Congress of Paris in 1850, in
the fond hope of imposing an enduring
check on the very abuse of maratime pow
er, which is now renewed by the United
States in 1861 and 1862, under circum
stances and with features of aggravated
wrong w ithout precedent in histoiy.
The records of our State Department
contaiu the evidence of the repeated and
formal remonstrances made by this Gov
ernment to neutral powers against the
our enemy.
I have hitherto refrained from call
ing to your attention this condition of our
relations with foreign powers for various
reasons. The chief of these was the fear
th$t a statement of our just grounds of com
plaint against a course of policy so injuri
ous to our interests might be construed
into an appeal for aid. Unequal as we
were in mere numbers and available re
sources to our enemies, we were conscious
of powers of resistance, in relation to which
Europe was incredulous, and our remon
strances were therefore peculiarly liable
to be misunderstood. Proudly self reliant,
the Confederacy knowing full well the
character of the contest into which it was
forced, with full trust in the superior
qualities of its population, the superior
valour of its soldiers, the superior skill of
its Generals, and above all in the justice
of its cause, felt no need to appeal for the
recognition of this blockade. It has been : maintenance of its rights to other earthly
shown by evideuce not capable of contra- j aids, and it began and has continued this
diction, and which has been furnished in struggle with the calm confidence ever
part by the officials of neutral nations, I inspired in those who with consciousness
that the few ports of this Confederacy, he- i of right can invoke the Divine blessing on
fore which any naval forces at all have j their cause. This confidence has been so
been stationed, have been invested so i assured that we have never yielded to
inefficiently that hundreds of entries have j despondency, under defeat, nor do we
been effected into them since the declaia- feel undue elation at the present brighter
tion of the blockade; lhat our enemies
have themselves admitted the inefficiency
of their blockade in the most forcible
manner, by repeated official complaints
of the sale, to us, of goods contraband of
war, a sale which could not possibly effect
their interests if their pretended blockade
was sufficient “really to prevent access to
onrcoast:’’that they have gone farther,
and have alleged their inability to render
prospect of successful issue to our contest
It is, therefore, because our just grounds
of complaint can no longer be misinter
preted that I lay |them clearly before you.
ti«* of thd United States, with but faint
hope that they will evince any disappro
bation of the act. Humanity shudders
at the appalling atrocities which arc being
daily multiplied under the sanction of those
who have obtained temporary possession
of power in the United States, and who are
last making its once fair name a by-word
of reproach among civilized men. Not
even ‘.he natural indignation inspired by
this conduct should make us, however so
unjust , as to attribute to the whole mass
of the people, who are subject to the des
potism that now reigns with Unbridled
licence in the city of "Washington, a
willing acquiescence in its conduct of the
war. There must necessarily exist among
our enemies, very many, peihaps a majori
ty, whose humanity recoils from all partic
ipation in such atrocities, but who cannot
he held wholly guiltless while permitting
their continuance without an effort at re
pression.
The public journals of the North have
been received, containing a proclamation
dated on the first day of the present
month, signed by the President of the
United States, in which he ordej-s and de
clares all slaves within ten of the States of
the Confederacy to he free, except such
as are found within certain districts now
occupied in part by the armed forces of the
enemy.
We may well leave it to the instincts of
that common humanity which a benefi
cent Creator lias implanted in the breasts of
our fellow-men of all countries, to pass
judgment on a measure by which several
millions of human beings of an inferior
race, peaceful and contented laborers in
their sphere, are doomed to extermination,
while at the same time they are eiymur-
aged to a general assassination of their
masters by the insidious recommendation
‘to abstain from violence unless in neces
sary self-defence.’ Our own detestation
of those who have attempted the most ex
ecrable measure recorded in the history of
guilty man, is tempered by profound con
tempt for the impotent rage which it dis
closes. So far as regards the action of
this government on such criminals as may
atteinDt its execution, I confine myself to
It seems to me now proper to give you the .informing you that I shall, unless in your
information, and although no immediate J wisdom you deem some other course more
results may he attained, it is well that: expedient, deliver to the several State .un
truth should be preserved and recorded —; tborities all commissioned officers of the
It is well that those who are to follow us j United States that may hereafter be cap-
slionld understand the fall nature and tured by our forces in any of the States
their paper blockade effective as the ex- j character of the tremandun* conflict in ; embraced in the proclamation, that they
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cuse for the odious barbarity of destroy
ing the entrance to one of our harbors by
sinking vessels loaded with stone in the
channel; that our commerce with foreign
nations lias been intercepted, not by the
effective investment of our ports, nor by
the seizure of ships in the attempt to enter
them, but by the capture on the high
seas of neutral vessels by the cruisers of
enemies whenever supposed to he hound
to any point on our extensive, coast, with
out enquiry whether a single blockading
vessel was to he found at such point, that
blockading vessels have left the posts at
which they were stationed for distant ex
peditions, have been absent for many days
and have returned, without notice either
of the cessation or renewal of tlie blockade;
in a word, that every prescription of mara
time law, and every right of neutral na
tions to trade with a belligerent under
the sanction of principles heretofore uni
versally respected ,bave been systematical
ly and persistently violated by the Uni
ted States, Neutral Europe has received
our remonstrances and has submitted in
almost unbroken silence to all tiie wrongs
that the United States have chosen to in
flict on its commerce. The Cabinet of
Great Britain, however, has not c.- nlined
itself to such implied acquiescence
breaches of international law as
from simple inaction, hut has, in
which the blood of our people has been
poured out like water, and in which they
have resisted, unaided, the shock of hosts
which would have sufficed to overthrow
many of the pow-ors which, by their hesi
tation in according our right as an inde
pendent nation, imply doubt of our ability
to maintain our national existence. It
may he, too, that if in future times, un
friendly discussions, not now anticipated,
“•y He dealt with in accordance with the
laws of those Ot..(os nrovidtngfor the pun
ishment of criminals engaged. exciting
servile insurrection. The enlisted soiai— a
I shall continue to treat as unwilling in
struments in the commission of these
crimes, and shall direct their discharge and
return to their homes on the proper and
usual parole
In its political aspect, this measure posses
shall unfortunately arise betwesfa this Con- j ses great significance, and to it in this light,
federacy and some European power, th* | I invite your attention. It affords to our
recollection of our forbearance under the \ whole people complete and crowning proof
grievances which I have enumerated, may I n f the true nature of the designs of the par-
be invoked with happy influence in pre-! ty which elevated to power the present
venting any serious disturbance of peace-! occupant of the Presidential chair at
u relations. | Washington, and which sought to conceal
It would not be proper to close my re- its purposes by every' variety of artful de
marks on the subject of our foreign rela
tions without adverting to the fact that
the correspondent between the Cabinets
of France, Great Britain and Russia,
recently published, indicates a gratifying
advance^ in the appreciation by those
governments of the true interests of man
kind, as involved in the war of this conti-
vice, and by the perfidious use of the most
solemn and repeated pledges on every pos
sible occasion. I extract, in this connec
tion, as a single example, the foliowingde-
claration made by President Lincoln, un
der the solemnity of his oath as Chief Mag
istrate of the Uuited States, on the 4tli of
March, 1S61.
‘An apprehension seems to exist anion
neiit. It is to the enlightened ruler of the
French nation that the public feeling of j the people df the Southern States, that by
Europe is indebted for the first official the accession of a Republican Administra-
exhioition of its sympathy for the softer- i tion, their property and their pence and
n these : ings endured by this people with so much j personal security are to be embarrassed.—
results ; heroism, of its horror at the awful carnage
pub- with which the progress of the war lias
lishid dispatch to tne Secretary of Mate | been maiked. and of its desire for a speedy
for I oreign Affairs, assumed to make a peace. The clear and direct intimation
change in the principle enunciated by the j contained in the language of the French
Congress*if Paris, to which the faith of; I)r) te, that our ability' to maintain our
the British Government was considered j independence has been fully established,
to he pledged; a change too important was not controverted by the auswer of
and too prejudicial to the interests of the j either of the Cabinets to which it was
Confederacy to be overlooked, and against • addressed. It is indeed difficult to con-
whicli I have directed solemn protest to \ ( . e ; ve a just ground for a longer delay on
be made, after a vain attempt to obtain this subject after reading the following
satisfactory explanations from the British j statement of faet* contained in the latter
Government. In a published dispatch from
her Majesty’s Office to her Minister at
Washington, under date of 11th Februa
ry, 1862. occurs the following passage:
‘•Her Majesty’s Government, however
are of opinion that assuming that the block
ade was duly notified and also that a num
ber of ships are stationed and remain at
the entrance of a port sufficient really to
prevent access to it; or to create <tu cadent
danger of entering it or /raring it. and j operations will shortly occur. According
that these ships do not voluntarily permit i to the last advices received in Europe, the
ingress or egress, the fact that various j two aruiies were, on the contrary, in a
ships may have successfully escaped condition which permitted neither to hope
through it (as in the particular instance within a short delny advantages Fiiffiicient-
here referred to) will not of itself prevent ] v IIiar ked to turn the balance definitely,
the blockade from being an effectual one by : a ud to accelerate the conclusion of peace.”
internatoinal law. , As t hi 8 government lias never professed
The words which 1 have italicised are j '^ e intention of conquering the United
an addition made by the British Govern- ! hut has simply asserted its ability
ment of its own authority to a principle, I to defend itself against being conquered
the exact terms of which were settled with ! hy tliat P ov ?er, we may safely conclude
delibeiation by r the common consent of I that the claims d! this Uonfcderacy to its
civilized nations, and by implied conVen- j j l *st place in the family of nations cannot
tion with this Government, as already
explained, and their effect is elenily to
reopen to the prejudice of the Confederacy
one of the very disputed questions on tl
law of blockade, which the-Con
Paris professed to settle. The importance
of this charge is readily illustrated by tak
ing one of our ports as an example. There
is evi lent danger in entering tiie port of
Wilmington from tho presence of a block
ading force, and by this test the blockade
is effective. “Access is not really prevent
ed” by the blockading fleet to the same
There has never been any reasonable
cause for such apprehensions. Indeed,
the most ample evidence to the contrary
has all the while existed, and been open to
their inspection. It is found in nearly all
the published speeches of him who now
addresses you. 1 do hut quote from one
of those speeches when I declare that i
have no such purpose, directly or indirect
ly, to interfere with the institution of sla
very in the States where it exists. I be
lieve I have no lawful right to do so ; and
I have no inclination to do so. Those who
emanating from the Minister of his im- nominated and elected me, did so with full
perial Majesty : “There has beer, estab- knowledge that 1 had made this and many
j lished from the very beginning of this war similar declarations, and had never recant
j an equillibrium of force between the bel-1 td them. And. more than this, they
j ligerents, which has since been almost j placed in the platform for my acceptance,
J constantly maintained, and, after the j and as a law to themselves and to me, the
spilling ot so much blood, they are to day, i clear aud emphatic resolution which I now
in ti-iis respect, in a bituation which has not j read :
sensibly (hanged. Nothing authorises j ‘Kesolved, That the maintenance invi-
j the provision that more decisive military 0 late of the rights of the States, and es
pecially the right of each Slate to order
and control its own domestic institutions
according to its own judgment exclusive
ly, is essential to that balance of power on
which the perfection and endurance of our
political fabric depend, and we denounce
tho lawless invasion by armed force of the
soil of nnj State or Territory, no matter
under what pretext, as among the gravest
crimes.’
Nor was this declaration of the want of
power or disposition to interfere with our
social system confined to a state of peace.
Both before and after the actual com
mencement of hostilities, tlie President of
he United States repeated in formal offi
cial communication to the Cabinets of
Great Britain and France, that lie was ut-
' terly without constitutional power to do
the act which he has just committed, and
that in no possible event, wheth
quenccs ; the extermination of the slaves, 1 the expense* were greatly decreased. There is *till,
the exile of the whole white population | however, a considerable deficit in the revenues o
me exile oi tne muo.o B F j the Department as compared with its expenses,
e .1 c j ._ nr absolute and to- ,<-‘P»rtinent as compared with its eipeu»*»,
from the Confederacy, or absolute and to-1 aud a | tll0Ugh the . „ lready ma de from the
tal separation of these btates from the l general Treasury will suffice to cover all liabih-
> of the fiscal yt-ar, ending on the
, I recommend some legislation, it
any can be constitutionally devised, for aiding
the revenue of that Department during tbs ensu
iug tiscal year, in order to avoid too great a reduc
tion ot postal facilities. Your attention is also in-
separation
United States. .
This proclamation is also an authentic | any ca " n ^ e “
statement by the government of the Uni
ted States of its inability to subjugate the
South by force of arms, and as such must
be accepted by neutral nations, which can
no longer find any justification iu with
holding our just claims to formal recogni
tion. It is also in effect an intimation to
vited to numerous other improvements in the ser
vice recommended in the report, and for which
legislation is required.
I recommend to the. Congress to devise a proper
mode ot relief to those of our citizens whose pio-
Govern-
.te people of tb. North that they must •-«-
ot national defence It is true that full indemnity
cannot now be made, but some measure of relief
is due to those patriotic citizens wlto have borne
private loss lortbe public good, whose property in
effect lias been taken for public use, though not
directly appiopriated.
Our Government, born of the spirit of freedom
and of the equality and independence of the States
could not have survived a seltish or jealous (lispo-
siti ,n, making each only careful of its own in
terest or safety.—The fate of the Confederacy, un
der the blessing of Divine Providence < 1 «P« ,lds 1 _ ear8 , get vaccinated at once. Lose not a dm
upon the harmony energy and onity of the, Wales. , 7 wi „ ead everywhere, if not
It especially devolves on you. their represent* f rPst £ d m this manner.-AlAeas Wain',man.
lives, as tar as practicable, to reform abuses, to j
correct errors, to cultivate, fraternity, and to sns
prepare to submit to aseparation, now he
come inevitable, for that people are too
acute not to understand that a restoration
of the Union has been rendered forever
impossible by the adoption of a measure
which by its very nature neither admits of
retraction nor can co-exist with union.
Among the subjects to which your atten
tion will he specially devoted during the
present session, you will doubt deem
tiie adoption of some comprehensive sys
tem of finance as being of paramount im
portance. The increasing public debt, | corre( . t errors. to cultivate, irsternuy, a nu iu »«»■ i
the great augmentation in the volume of tain iu the people a just confidence ill the Govern- j
the currency with its necessary concomi- ”’ ‘ 1 ' r ' *” to
tant of extravagant prices for all articles
of consumption, the want of revenue from
death of the lata T. R B. Oobb, for many years
one of the leading minds and ablest jurists ot the
State, and that they especially sympathise wit!
tbe immediate family and friends of the deceased,
to whom his loss is irreparable.
2d. That the Supreme Court now in session
be requested to enter these proceedings on their
minutes as an humble tribute from his profession
al brethren to the worth of their departed friend
aud brother.
3d. Thatacopyof these proceedings, properly
certified be forwarded to the widow and lamily ot
the deceased and that the public journals through
out the State be requested to publish them. -
Savannah, Jan. 13th, 1863.
NinaII Psi.
This loathsome and very fatal disease is now
scattered all over the country, if common rumor
mav be credited. In this county, it is. so far
confined to ono neighborhood. In Walton, we
learn, it has appeared iu four different places, and
there have been several deaths. Iu Habersham
too tlier** have been several deaths It has also
appeared in Hart. Franklin, and Banks counties.
We fear that our people are not fully aroused to
the importance of universal vaccination. Let ev
ery man, woman and child, white mid black, who
has not been vaccinated within tl.e past seven
Lose not a day—
State Rights & Coafederate Stales’ Rights
thoroughly armed and equipped than at any pre
vious period of the war
a taxation adequate to support the public
credit, all unite in admonishing us that
energetic and wise legislation alone can
prevent serious embarrassment in our mon
etary affairs. It is my conviction that
the people of the Confederacy will freely
meet taxation on a scale adequate to the
maintenance of the public credit and the
support of their government. When each
family is sending forth fls precious ones to
meet exposure in oamp and death in^iat-
tle, what ground can there he to doubt the
disposition to devote a tithe of its income
and more, if more be necessary, to provide
the Government with means tor ensuring
the coinfort of its defender? Ifourene
mies submit to an excise on every com
modity they produce, and to the daily
presence of the tax gatherer, with no high
er motive than the hope of success iu their
wicked designs against us, the suggestion j - . — - , .
r *n* • non i expended so protusely in the numerous and ues-
ofanunw.llmgnes8onthepartofthi.spco- engagements .bat rapidly mcceed each
other. Coltou and woolen fabrics, shoes and liar-
Headu’rs. Army of Tennessee, ^
Winchester, Jan- 8, 1863. j
A<t4rc»a of den. Brnxlou Brags to bis
... i Arnar.
the unity and sell sacrificing patriotism mtnerto
displayed, is due the success which has marked
tbe unequal contest, and has brought our country
into a condition at tbe present lime such as, the | r , . ~ ™ _____
most sanguine would not have ventured to pre- J Soldiers oj the Army of lennesscc. . . . c • r 3 ~ ~«n~
diet at the commencement of our struggle. Our j Your gallant deeds have won the admi- tion of independence, was solemnly en«
•il nues are larger, better disciplined and more , rat j Qn y 0 ur General, your Government ed by tho representatives of the *
and your Country.^ For myself I thank Convention assembled. In
THE CONFEDERATE UNION,'
( Corner of Hancock and Wilkinson struts
OPPOSITE THE CqURTnOFSE
Tuesday Morning, January 27fi8e;f
Terms $3 00 Per Annum, in Adisr.*,. "
Jnutiary
On this day two years ago, the Ordi.
nance of Secession, Georgia’s Declara
People in
lookiu"
The energies of a whole nation, devoted to the y0 U and am proud of you—for them I ten- j the names ap p ondod t0 th J
ingle object ot success in this war, have accom- der y oa the gratitude and praise you have . rr „ memorable
plished marvels, and many of our trials have, by nf ,Klv won * document, we lllid ffcat the followin'’ har
a beneficent Providence, been converted into J . , ,, sealed the act with their VI,, j ? , e
blessings. The magnitude of the perils which we In a campaign of less than one month, seaiea tne act with their flood. Others
encountered have'’developed the true qualities in the face of winter, your achievements may deserve a place in this immortal list
and illnstiated the heroic character of our people, ] iave b een , 1D p ara lleled. You have cap*, but we do not remember their n.m,. ' ’
Jffc "T* ~~ •« I-*-"* F,...i. S. Bat.*fJ cu,
„ill,. 'I lie injuries luuKine from tl.e iunrrnp- taken and preserved thirty pieces of at- |„ m coontv °
ti.tn of foreign commerce have received compensa- tillerv and seven thousand small arms, in T , “ T _
. . | - • — - ’ ’ ■ ’ - John B. Lamar, Delegate from Bibb
tion by the development of our internal resources, addition to many thousand destroyed. Ion
S c> P t„re,i «*- «•«»*.
pie to submit to the taxation necessary for
the success of their defence is an imputa
tion on their patriotism that few will be
disposed to make, aud that none can just
ify.
The legislation of your last session in
tend to hasten the fnndipg of outstanding
Treasury notes has proved beneficial, as
shown by the returns annexed to the re-
llie products of mines opened and furnaces built ,„ . r ,. i • i
daring the war. Our mountain cavos yield much uns, loaded cluefiy with supplies, winch
of th”nitre for the manufacture of powder, and have been destroyed or brought safely to
oromise increase of product. From our own found- our jj nes> an d in pitched, battles you have
SI S' the enemy before you inflicting a
rlike material, the ordnance stores which are loss at least three to one greater than you
have sustained.
In retiring to a stronger position with-
, nr.tdueed in out molestation from a superior force, von
ness, wagons and gun carnages are produced in ** , . , ,f , . . , . ; .
daily increasing quantities by the factories spring- have left him a barren held in winch to
ing into existence. Our fields, no longer vrhiteued Bury his host of slain and to rally and re
bycotton that cannot be exported,are devoted to j CU p era te his shattered ranks. But off
flr3j a 5S«!msrf r wi?h“ho‘^iSs of cotton. ; government both by rail and tel-
J„ the homes of our noble and devoted women, egraph and deprived of supplies by the m-
svithout whose sublime sacrifices our success terruption of his communications, we shall
-een impossible, the noi-~ ‘k“ - - • * “
pinning wU*al may
would have
loom and of
oeen impossible, the noise of the , teac J, J,j m a severe lesson for the rash-
tbe aninninp- wleel may be beard J „ ... , .
Richard T. Davis, Delegate from Put-
nara county.
Marcelnts Douglass, Delegate from Ran
dolph county.
Levi B. Smith, Delegate from Talbot
county.
John 0. Burch, Delegate from Elbert
county.
I hos. II. R. Cobb, Delegate from Clark
county.
Francis C. Shropshire, Delegate from
Floyd county.
port of the Secretary of the Treasury.- j thronghout tbe land. With Jearts swelling with j ness of penetrating a country so hostile to
But it was neither sufficiently prompt nor gratifudr let us then join in returning thanks to his cause- Vi hilst the infantry and artil-
far-’w l • * t „ ,,f ,t,p tied and in beseeching the continuance of his pro- i i ery defy him in front, our invincible cav- ,n ciosin
tar iW,,no. to meet the full extent ot the j ^ ovef 0ur " causf and the restoration of' J 3
we goard him to another advance only to
•last and liberal.
Tho editor of the Atlanta Confederacy
his remarks on Gov. Brown’s
ot that i country.
onrrLiwoK dj-VTS.
law by fixing a limitation not later than
the 1st July next, to the delay allowed for
funding the notes issued prior to the 1st
December, 1S62, will, in the opinion of
the Secretary, have the effect to withdraw
from circulation nearly the entire sum is
sued previous to the last named date. If
to this be added a revenue from adequate
taxation, and a negotiation of bonds guar
antied proportionately by the several
States, as has already been generously
proposed by some of them in enactments
spontaneously adopted, there is little doubt
that we shall see our finances restored to a
sound and satisfactory condition; our cir
culation relieved of the redundancy now
productive of so many mischiefs, and our
credit placed'on such a basis as tef relieve
us from further anxiety relative to our re
sources for the prosecution „f the war.
It is true that at its close our debt will
be large: but it will be due to our own
people, and neither the interest nor the
capital will he exported to distant coun
tries, impoverishing ours for their benefit.
On the return of peace the untold wealth
which will spring from our soil will render
the burthen of taxation far less onerous I Gckral Johnston's Speech at a Rail
than is now supposed, especially if we ■ ^° u <} ^ lf ttion.—The speech of Gen. John-
take into consideration that we shall then j ston before the Mississippi Legislature,
he free from the large and steady drain of wasfsaid to be about as lengthy as any he
our substance to which we were subjected > rve made - II ' voul d occupy two lines
The Portrait of n {oo*l .71 an hy the mo»t
sublime of Port*.
Lord, who’s the happy man that may to thy blest
courts repair;
Not strauger-like foj/isit them, but to inhabit
titer*-/
’Tis he whose every thought aud deed by rules of
virtue moves:
Whose generous t*ngue disdains to speak the
thing his hear- disproves.
Who never did a slander forge, his neighbor’s
fame to wottid,
Nor hearken to t false report, by malice whisper
ed round.
•Vbo vice in al its pomp and power, can treat
with just jeglect;
And piety, thfagh clothed in rags, religiously re
spect.
Who to his pkbted vows and trust has ever firm
ly stood/
And thongh/ie promise to his loss, he makes bis
promisrgood.
Whose soulin usury disdains his treasure to em
ploy:
Whom xt> rewards can bribe the guiltless to
destn^-
The n\nufn\\o, by this steady coarse, has happi-
ness/nsured,
When e*ill's foundation shake, shall stand—by
by providence secured.
meet another signal defeat.
Your General deplores, in common with
you, the loss of your gallant comrades
who have fallen in our recent conflicts.
Let their memories be enshrined on your
hearts as they will ever be tenderly cher
ished by their countrymen. Let it be
yours to avenge their fate and proudly
emulate their deeds. Remember that
your face is to the foe, and that on you
rests the defence of all that is dear to free
men.
uage:
M c cannot close this notice without ex
pressing our approbation of the spirit and
terms of the Governor’s proclamation. It is
patriotic and just—takes the right view of
the matter, and does him great credit.
Some few persons have charged the Gov
ernor with being unpatriotic and unfriend
ly to the Confederate Government. After
reading this proclamation, whatever they
may think of the propriety of bis views
on other subjects, they can
j no more lay
Soldiers! the proudest reflection of your LiLmN < ! 00 J'' ?f,K re "
i._ i:c„ :_V~ sohed th «it Georgia shall do her full duty
as a member of tho Confederate Govern-
General’s life is to be known as the com
manderof an army so bravo and invinci
ble as you have proven. He asks no
higher boon than to lead such men to wic-
tory. To share their trials and to stand
or fall with them will he the crown of his
ambition. BRAXTON BRAGG,
General Commanding.
—
Put lhc Excinpu iu l!»e Trench?*.
ment, whether that Government do wba:
he conceives to be its duty to the States
or not. No one could ask anv more than
this.”
‘Horvc .71 a*
lbjected
in the late Union through the instrumen
tality of sectional legislation and protec
tive tariffs.
I recommend to your earnest attention
the whole report of the Secretary of the,
I reasury on this important subject,
trust that your legislation on it will be ('f
lu -his paper,
il/ rather over
AmlJ the saga counsels which illuminatei the
Mississippi Legislature on Fri iay last in the
speech of President Davis, was tho recommenda
tion to put the exempts into the trenches.. We
have often thought upon this subject and labored
to devisesome plan whereby this class of individ
uals could be usefully employed to themselves
and the Confederacy, but could never exactly
find the place wherein they could ail harmoniously
But it was told of him that work together, and feel delighted at the brilliant
exerted himself at a rail- i suggestion of the President. Some of our quernl-
ibad station near Chattanooga—so much
jeo that the Surgeon of his staff advised
'him to stop, as he was “talking too much”
considering the state of his health.
Scene.—A small railroad town—time 12
long he withheld after so frank and formal
an admission of its capacity to cope, on
equal terms, with its aggressive foes, and
to maintain itself against their attempts to
rcss of | °htain decisive results by arms.
It is my painful duty again to inform
you of the renewed examples of •very
conceivable atrocity committed by the
armed forces or the United States, at differ
ent points within the Confederacy, and
which must stamp indelibly not only on
the perpetrators, but on their superiors
who, having the power to check these
of the objects proposed
1 he operations of ^the War Department/bave
*•—- *- *'■" o~»iotv.cto r _,. i„ n,.- leyort ot
the Secretary, herewith submitted, will hi found
a summary ot many memorable successes/ They
are with justice ascribed, in large mensui/i to the
rtorganization and reinforcement of out armies
under the operation of the enactment for/conserip- J era ‘ we’ll whip em?
ti^ni. I he wisdom and efficacy .of tbesyacts have i General—If we stay at
o^"v” PP X- ed by r r ! !rr d . the . l fc spi ' it , uf tai »'y will not whip them,
unity, endurance and seif devotion 11/tke people, -- - ‘
which has hitherto sustained their act/rn, must be
relied on to ensure their enforceine/ t under the
necessities of our situation. The pecomm* nda-
tions of the Secretary to this
bv
ous cotemporaries have sometimes denied to the
President the possession of a high order of intel
lect, but we hope this brilliant suggestion will
forever put at restall such unfounded imputations.
The trenches is the very place for the exempts.
There is where they should have been from tho
commencement of the war. The combined wis
dom of the Confederacy has heretofore failed to
get them into the traces and it was - certainly a , . ,
happy thought to put them iuto the trenches. Then j'_^. rt:Uelv e
the judges, clerks, sheriffs, editors, printers, the
owners ot six negroes, shoemakers tanners, post-
mssters. mail carriers, and tniilers, the lame, the
halt and the blind, et id vmne genus, can harmon
iously cooperate in the confines of the trenches.
\ es the trenches is tho placo. There is enough
. . _ _ of them to fill a trench dug from Haynes’ Bluff,
V otcP tit the Crowd—Do you think Gin- around Vicksburg to Warrenton Just look at it
a moment and see how beautifully it, would
work. Then the Judge, when no enemy is near,
can preside with as much dignity as if he was
. . - _ _ ' upou the bench; the shoemaker can squat down
V oice lit the crowd—W e give 'cm hell \ and hammer away upon his shoes: the pill maker
at Fredericksburg Saturday. j can deal out his pills and find no better place for
General—No sir. Wo had nothin"’ to the , ir di "P°® B !> the tan,,er ca ? di ? a iittle trench
” and put nis skins in to tan: the editor can find
upw Artu ol the Service—the 1
riues."
Onr readers will see by the following,
that the gallant young cavalry General,
Vi heeler, has had a combat with the ene
my’s navy on the Cumberland, and pnt
them horse dc combat. Wheeler should
he the first Commodore of the “Horse
Marines.”
MORE OF WHEELER’S EXPLOITS.
MORGAN AND STUART OUTDONE.
HE CAPTURES FOUR TRANSPORTS.
layed no longer tnan may be required/o ' a house with about seventy-five or
enable your wisdom to devise the proiu?r oigl)t} men, women and children. Re
measures for ensuring tho accomplishment -I’ ea,ed calls for “Gin’ral Johnsin.”
General Johnston—My fellow-citizens,
I would much prefer to see you in the ar-
Crowd (very freely)—Huzzah for Gen
eral Johnston.
home we cer-
CAPTURE5 AND DESTROYS A GUNBOAT.'
MAKE WAY FOR THE “HORSE MARINES
Mobile. J.,n.-17th.—The following dispatchbss
here dated Tullahoma, Jammy
To Gen S Buckner:—Gen Wheeler with a portion,
of his cavalry brigade, after burning the railroad
hridge%in tho enemy’s rear, pushed for tho Cum
berland river, where ho intercepted and captnml
tour large transports, destroyed three, with all
the supplies, and bended one to carry off the font
muidred paroled prisoners. Ho was hotly per-
sued by a gunboat, which ha attack' d an*J cap
tured and destroyed her, with her whole arm*-
meet.
[Signed]
BRAXTON BRAGG.
Tbe President’* iflemrnngc.
Good wine, it is said, needs no bush.
ions of the Secretary to this effe't are tempered and put his skins in to tan: the editor can hnd a..,,, „ , ,
>y suggestions for their amelioihtion, and the ■ i 1 a none who stay at home wide field the for narrative and descriptive; the ; ^ ^ lc comments ot the press may direct the
object deserves the consideration of Congress—j 1 '.* D "'»* our gallant soldiers of Vir- j diuggist, who is nothing more than a whisky sel- 1 reader, but however able and elaborate,
'’or the perfection of our military organization no gmia who achieved that victory. [Exit ler can still deal out whisky by the (/r«r/irn, and .
--A. _ i t , ... , . , . . .. J .i,« i i,„ „i.*r» .ii .♦ cannot lmnrove tln> i nenmnni wo 1- n vp. t no
appropriate nn-ans should be rejected, and on this
subject the opinions of the Secretary merit early
attention. It is gratifying to perceive that, un-
days—common to all who speak too lonj
in the open air.—flississippian.
port, for steamers arc continually arriving j outrages on humanity, numerous and well
and departing, so that tried by this test I authenticated as they have been, have not
the blockade is ineffective and invalid—
r J he justice of onr complaint on this point
is so manifest as to leave little room for
doubt that further reflection will induce
the British Government to give us such
assurances as will efface the painful impres
sions that would result from its language,
if left unexplained.
I rom the foregoing remarks vou will
perceive that during nearly two years of
struggle in which every energy of our
country has been evoked for maintaining
its very existence, tlie neutral nations (d
Europe hav e pursued a policy which nom
inally impartial had been practically most
favourable to our enemies and most detri
mental to us.
The exercise of the neutral rights of
refusing entry into their ports to prizes
taken by both belligerents, was eminently
hurtful to the Confederacy. It was sternly
asserted and maintained.
The exercise of tiie neutral rights of
commerce with a belligerent whose pints
are not blockaded by fleets sufficient really
to prevent access t» them, would have
been eminently hurtful to the United
States. It was complacently abandon
ed.
The duly of neutral States to receive
vitb cordiality and recognize with respect
yet, in a single instance of which 1 am
aware, inflicted punishment on the wrong
doers. Since my last communication to
you, one General McNeil murdered seven
prisoners of war in cold blood, and the
demand for Lis punishment has remained
unsatisfied. The Government of the
the se
cession of these States resulted in tbe es- | otherwise cominandiogand distributiii
tablisbment of a separate Confederacy or
in the restoration of the Union, was there
any authority by virtue of which lie could'
either restore a disaffected State, to the
Union by force of arms or make any
change in any of its institutions. 1 refer
especially for verification to tin’s assertion,
to the dispatches addressed by the Secre
tary of State of the United States tinder
direction of the President to the Ministers
of the United States at London and Pa
ris. under date of 10th and 22d April,
1861.
The people of the Confederacy then can-
dvr ail tl.fc eff.irts and sacrifice/* of war, the power, i ,ant General’s health underwent no change
means and resources of the Confederacy for its j f° r the worse, save a hoarseness for a few'
successful prosecution are increasing. Depend
ence on foreign supplies is to be deplored, and
should, as far as practicable, be obviated by tbe
development and employment of internal re
sources. The peculiifr circumstances of the conn
try, render this difficult, and require extraordina
ry encouragements aud facilities to be granted
by the Government. The embarrassments re
suiting from the limited capacity of ihe railroads
ctory
owd looking very crest-fallen. , fl . - , . . _
vi'„ i i . . . , j their intervals of leisure harmoniously work to
* ( an p t used to state that the gal- : pettier and illustrate a degree of homogeneity
| never before witnessed in the Confederacy.— Kvs-
I ciusko Chronicle.
■ so on to the end of the chapter. Thus all can at improve toe document we haveth®
“■■jr - * L tjr pleasure to lay before him. If tbe reader
will take the message in hand and read it
carefully he will enjoy a “feast of reason,
and rise from its perus.-J a wiser man.
1 lie President has touched only upon
important topics which most affect the
country’s welfare, leaving minor matters
Our Foreign
Forciga firms.
RICHMOND, Jan. 19.—The latest foreign ad
vices state that Gladstone, in a speech in Lan
cashire on the prevailing distress, expressed tha
j hope that the crisis will be passed by March.
Il is rumored that Prussia lias sent depatches to undiscussed for t lie present.
Relations, tiie late brutal Proclamation d
to afford transportation, and the impossibility ot tee appointed by the Court on motion of the Hon
• ‘ u : j; J ’ th ’
Unite. 1 .States after promising examination j not fai | t0 rece ; ve this proclamation as the
and explanation m relation to tbe ebarges fll | ]cst vindication of their own sagacity iu
made against Generai Benjamin I?. Butler,
has, by its subsequent silence, after repeat
ed efforts on ir.y part to obtain some an
swer on the subject, not only admitted
his guilt but sanctioned it by acquiescence,
and I have accordingly branded this crim
inal as an outlaw and directed his execu
tion in expiation of his crimes if lie should
fall into the bands of any of our forces.
Recently I have received apparently
authentic intelligence of another genera!
by the name of Milroy, who has issued
orders in Western Virginia for the pay
ment of money to him by the inhabitants,
accompanied by the most savage threats
of shooting every recusant, besides burning
his house; and threatening similar atroci- 1
ties against any of our citizens who shall
fail to betray their country by giving him
prompt notice of the approach of any of
our forces, and this subject has also been
submitted to the superior military authori-
foreseeing the uses to which the dominant
party in the United States intended, from
the beginning, to apply their power, nor
can they cease to remember with devout
thankfulness, that it is to tIieir own vigi
lance in resisting the first stealthy progress
of approaching despotism, that they owe
their escape from consequences now ap
parent te tbe most skeptical. This proc
lamation will have another salutary effect,
in calming the fears of those who have
constantly evinced the apprehension that
this war might end by some reconstruction
of the old Union or some renewal of close
political relations with the United States.
These fears have never been shared by
tne, nor have I ever been able to perceive
on what basis they could rest. But this
proclamation affords the fullest guarantee
of the impossibility of such a result: it
has established a state of things which can
lead to but ona of three possible conse.
sary supplies for the Annies render the oontrol of
the roads under some general supervision, aud re
sort to the power of impressment, niilitnry exi
getieier. While such powers have to be exercised,
they should be guarded by judicious provisions
against perversion or abuse, and he, ns recom
mended by the Secretary, under due regulation of
law.
I specially recommend, in this connection, some
revision of the exemption law of last session —
Serious complaints have reached mo of the ine-
eqnality of its operations from eminent and pa
triotic citizens, whose opinions merit great con-
sidertttion, and I trust that some means will be
Tribute of Kraprcl to Ihe .Memory of Grn.
Tho*. IS. K. C'obb.
At the January term nf the Supreme Court of i
Georgia held at Savannah, the following,report , Austria, threatening to withdraw from the Gotl
and resolutions were introduced by the Commit- j federation.
A plot for rising in" Poland has been discover- Abraham Lincoln, and tho Finances of
ed - .... tbe country, are the chief subjects en
At the recent demonstration in New Jersev, , , ’ tt i . ,,
George P. Andons said the rights of the South lar S ed U P 0U - IIow h « treats t,,em *
must be respected, or we shall turn our artillery leave the reader to decide for himself. If
upon emancipation garroters of the Conslitusion. • , ~
The sentiment was received with enthusiatic ap- j’ s enou fjh for us to say, that it is a papt-
plause. _ _ ; which will be applauded at home, respcct-
Wm. Law in behalf of the bar:
The Bar of Georgia.have received with sincere
emotions ot grief aud r« gret the sad intelligence
( f tiie death of Gen. Thonns R. R. Cobb, for
many years one of its most eminont and distin-
guished members. In the decease of our brother
"*• recognize tiie loss the profession Iirs sustained:
a loss to the bench, whose labor-* he aided as well
by his extensive attainments iu legal learning,
and tbe industry, research and sound judgment
which lie brought to every case, as by his lucid,
clear at.d eloquent advocacy of his cause: a loss
to the bar upon w bom lie bad reflected the light j of the l*th, contaius President Davis’ Message in futl|
of bis own great legal mind, his extensive learn- and says it is of more than ordinary importance, imli-
ing, his scrupulous correctness and upri"ht bear- i eating that lie is assured by a conscious security Which
Gold in New Yorklldi.
HERALD OX PRESIDENT DAVIS’ MESSAGE.
Petersburg, Va., .Tan. 19th. —The New York Herald,
ed across the water, aud painfully digest
ed by our enemies iu the North. The
more conservative portion of the North
ern people will ho impressed by the truth
fulness and confident tone of the Mes
sage. They may endeavor to conceal tbe
devised for leaving at home a sufficient local po- j mg' in the discharge of all profrssionafduties and ,1RS neVer hitherto characterized any manifesto which
lice without making discriminations, always to ! in the kindness of intercourse, bv which he had I lms ?'? anated Trom the rebel Executive and breathes , - ,
be deprecated, between different classes ot our I contributed so much to its social^ enjoyment and ** ? pl . rit of d ®i er,m “®. tion an< l defiance not justified by | favorable impression which will be
citizens. | fraternal feeling. J | w^meets Urn pabbc eye^^ ^ , 1
frat _
Our relations with the Indians generally con-| He lias passed away and left to us in the path
tunic to be friendly. A portion of the Cherokee : he trod, an example at once honorable to bis mem-
people have assumed an attitude hostile to th*- | ory and worthy of our imitation.
Confederate Government; but it is gratifying to Mr. Cobb was not only the able and learned
be able to state that the mass of intelligence and I lawyer and eloquent advocate; ho was also tho
worth in that nation have remained true and loy- I good man and virtuous citizen, adorned with all
al to their treaty engagements. With tins exeep- j the Christian graces.
tion, there has been uo impoitant instances of dis- I His loss is great to the Church of Christ on
earth, and in particular to that brAiich of it to
which li-- stood in the relation of membership. It
bo felt in the eclesiastical bodies with which
flection among any of the friendly nations and
tribes. Dissaiisfaction recently manifested itseit
among certain portions of them: bnt this resid ed
from a misapprehension of the intentions of Ihe
Government in their behalf. This has been re
moved, aud no further difficulty is autiepa-
liere-
progress made in
this branch of tho public service since your ad
journment, as well as its present condition. The
details embraced in it are of such a nature ns to
lender it, in my opinion, incampatible with tiie
public interests that they should be published
with this message. I therefore confine myself to
inviting your attention to the iufcftnation therein
contained.
sible
Gold declined under the Arkansas nows—do-in.
1413-8.4. Exchange dull at 1C1. ,
The report of the Secretary of the Navy,
wilh transmitted, ex hi bits the progress ma
he was connected, and where his eloquent tongue I First Traveler—“Is this bed you rc in
was worn to guide the way to truth and right in occupied, Stranger?’.’
their deliberations. Voice from beneath the quilts—Yes
As a citizen his loss will be deeply mourned in • ,, 1
the community of his home—as a statesman, it * Slr ‘. , .. ...
will be felt and deplored iu Georgia and in the First Traveler—“How many m it?
Confederate counsels of the nation—as a patriot : Second Traveller—“About 15,000 I
it will be the source of the deepest regret to the 1 recon> f rom the way they crawl! [Exit
people of rlie whole Confederacy, lor whose liber- ■ ** . . i -.v i _ 1
ty and independence he laid down his life on the trave ^ er ^> a oo a o e -J
baitlo field. I
It is filling and becoming that this court, which 1 rr.v v ,
has so often listened to bis enlightened and elo- I The Katchez Couiier announces the
quent arguments, and this bar to whom he has death of George Prentiss, only son of the
The Report of the Postmaster General shows ! left such a noble example, in all his varied walks ! late Sargent S. Prentiss, the distinguish-
timt-iuriug tho first postal year under our Govern, in life should record their approbation ofsucha; Af l Orator He was a member of tho
ment, terminating ou the 30th Juno last, our rc-man. Therefore be it V I V* o. x was a member ot the
venues were in excess of those received by the Resolved 1st, The *■< ar of the Supreme Court of, ^«cbez Southroo*, and died ot camp le-
former Government in its last postal year, while J Georgia here assembled, sincerely mourn tlm ! Y#r.
a has captured two more vessels—one j upon them by the • unvarnished story o
the Parker Cook, of Boston, Nov, 3l!tb, Dear St. Do- i ' i .i i _i .G-miticd
mingo which was burnt: the other iiavinga British cargo ! OU1 ’ '1 rongs, and t IIC calm anu u c
was allowed tof proceed; but the vessel was bond- 'assertion of’ our rights; but. nevertheless
C “. ■ ! ° . ’ , n( r
An arrival from New Oileans says the Harriet Lane j the impression will remain, and ere 1° d d
has been sent to eea. Farragut has sent tbe Brook- i ., ., ... „.;il burst
lyn,Sciota, ^nd other vessels to recapture her, if pos- Sliiot sicrcti lires ot conviction y
forth and cover that benighted land wit 1 * 1
flood of light. la some portions of t*.at
stony ground the good seed "ill t a ^ B
root aud grow luxnriantly. In the North
west especially, where a few streaks 0
dawning day may already bo plainly * s
cerned, will the most decided !mpr c5Sl0n
bo made. If to the moderate and seDSI ^
ble men of the North aud North-west anv
nested by the
of mortifica
tion, born of tbe consciousness, th ^
the Confederate States arc governed }
statesman, honest, able and B ®S acl
while they are the unwilling subject" o
“ Constitutional" tyrant and ignoramus
unpleasant thought be sue
message, it will be a sense