The inaugural of Jeff. Davis, like all of his documents is a concoction of falsehoods for foreign effect. He talks of personal liberty and of freedom of speech, in a reign of terror, and where no freedom of speech has existed for half a century; of rights of peaceable citizens in the midst of a forced conscription; of the protection of property, in the midst of confiscation and general devastation; of free elections, in States carried into rebellion by pretended elections held under the supervision of rebel troops; and of peace and justice in a rebellion which has assumed all the villainies and barbarisms of the world.
With a lie in his mouth he appeals to GOD. – He should have done that before he violated his oath to plunge the country into civil war. There is too much blood on his soul now.
Like every Secession attempt, this pronunciamento [sic], while it attempts to give a cause for the rebellion, utterly fails to specify a thing that is not absurdly false. The only pretense alleged is the “clan legislation for the aggrandizement of the Northern section, culminating in warfare on the domestic institutions of the Southern States,” and he will not deny, and his Vice President has admitted since Secession, that the South always controlled the legislation; and the Administration which he says was to make war on Slavery had not even come into office when he rebelled. – {Cincinnati Gazette.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 1
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