Message Of Jeff. Davis

New Orleans, July 20. Joff. Davis calis attcntion to the causes which formed the Confederacy, aud says it is now only necessary to cali attcntion i to such fCt8 aci have occurred d uring the ! reces?, and to matters n conneetion with I the p'ublio defensa. He congratulates Congreas on the accession to the j erney of the free and equal sovereign States (mentioning scveral States), and says it was decmed advisable to remove the several dopartments and archives to Riohmond, to which place Congress has already been removed, as the seat of govcrninent. After tho adiournineiit of Congress the aggressive movement of the etiemy required prompt and energetic action. The aecumuiation of the encmy's forces on the Potomac, sufficiontly demonstrates that bis efforts are direetcd against Virginia, and from do poiut could measures Por her defeose aud protection be so efficiently direetcd as from her own capital. The rapid progress of the last few mouths, has stripped the veil from beland which the policy and purposes of tho Lincoln government were previously coucealed, which are now fully revealed. . The message of their President, and the act ion of their Congress at the present session, confess the intention of subjugating the seceded States by war, the folly of which is equalled only by ita wickedness. A war by which it is impossible to attain the proposed result, whilst its dire calamities cauuot be avoided by us, will fall with doublé severity on theuiselves. Commencing in March last with an affectation of ignorauee of the secession of seven States, which oro-anized tho Confedérate governmeut; persisting in April, in the absurd as, sumptioir of the existenco of a riotwhich was to be dispersed by a posse comitalus representations ; that these States intended an offeusive wi.r, in spite of con clu8Íve evidence to the contrary, furuishes, as weH by the official aetiou of thePresident of the United States, evideuce that he and bis advisers have suececded in doceiving the people of these States iuto the belief that the purpose of this government is not peace at home, but conquest abroad, not the defense of our liberties, but the subjugation of the people of the United States. Forluuately for the truth of history, President Lincoln's message minutely details the attempt to reinforce Fort Pickens in violation of the armistice, which he COOfosses that he had been inforined of only by rumors too vague and uncertain to ere ate attention. The hostile expeditiou dispatch'id to supply Fort Suiuptor is adniitted to have been undertakeo with the knowkjJge that itssuccess was impossible. In sending of a nolice to the Governor of South Carolina oí the intention to use forcé to accouiplish the object, ai:d uoting from the inaugural tüat there íill be no couflict unlcss these States were the aggressor?, he proceeds to delare that hts conduot in the past, as well s for the future, was in performance of his promise, which could not be misunlerstood. He charges these States with being the ssailanta of the Union, and states that he world caunot misunderstaud this uu'ounded pretense. Lincoln proposos to nake the contest sharp aud decisivo, and onfoss'is that even an iucrtased force is equired. These enortnous preparations are a distiuct avowal that the United States are engaged ia a conflict with a rreat and powerful uation, and they are compelled to abandon the pretence oí lispersing rioters, and luppressing DBurrcotioo, and are driveu to the ickiiowledgment that the Uuion is disolved. TÍiey recoguize the separate exstence of tho Confedérate States, by .he ntroductiou of an embargo and blo?k ade by which all coimnerce betweeu the wo is cut off They repudiate.tho fooüsh dea that tho iuhabitauts of the Confederacy are still citizeus of tho United States, for they are now wagiug au indiscrimínate war upon tliem with a savage 'erocity unknowu in modern civilizatiou He compares the present invasión tú that of Ureat Jiritaiu in 1781, which was conducted in a more civihzed mauuer. - Mankind shudders at the outrages com tnitted oa det'enseless témales, wuo depict their feroeity aud malignity, while ander the pretuit of suppressiug iusurrection; they make special war ou sick vvomeii and childrcu, by carefully devised measures to prevent their obtaming medicines necessary for their care. The sacred claims of humanity are respected by all uations, even in the fury of battle by a careful deviatiüu of an attack ou hospitals which are now outraged by a Government which pretends the desire to maiütuin fraternal connections. Such outrages admit of no retaliation unkss the actual perpetrators are captured. Col. Taylor's mission to Washington was to propose ou exchange of prisonerg tu ken on tho privateer Savannah, and to iuforin Lincoln of the determined purpose to check all barbarities ou prisoncrs of war by such retaüation, us to effectually put an end to such prácticos. Lincoln proraised to reply, but none has vet been received. In refereuce to the peculiar States usually called border or slave States which cannot properly be withheld from notico. The liearts of our people are animated by the sentinieuts towarda tho ínhabitants ot these States which found expression in your enactinent ia refusing to consider ihcm eneraii'S or autborize hostilities against thera. A laige portion of the people of these States regard us as brothers, and if unrestrained by the actual presence of large arniies, and the subversión of civil authority by the declaration of raartial law, somo of thcm at least, joyfully unite with us that thcy are aliuost with entire una itnity, opposed to the war jaged agaiust us. The daily rocurring events fully warrant this asser tion. The President of the Uuited otates refuscs to rccognize in those, our late sister States, the right of refraining from an attack upon us, and justifies his refusal by the assertion that thü States have no o: her power than thac reserved to thein in the Union by the constitutiou, I no one of them having boen a State of the Union before the adoption of that instrument. This ncw oonstitutiona! reiation be twcon the títatc-s and the General Government, isa fitting refutation to another assertion oí' the message, and the Executivc possesses the power, of susponding the habió corpus, and of delegating that power to military comandersat discriitioii, and both these propositious claim a re speet equal to tliat whioh is folt for the additioual statement in the same paper - it is proper in order t,o execute the Iav3. We may well rejoice tliat we havo forever severed our connection with a government that thus trnmples on all principies of Coustitutional liberty. and with a peoplc in wliose presence such avowals could be hazarded. The operations in tho field will be greatly extended by reason of the pohcy whiüh heretofore was secretly entertained, but iiow avowed and acted upon by the United States. The forcea hitherto raised have proved ampie for tho defense of the seven States wliieli originally or ganized the Confederaey, with the excep tion of those fortified islands, wliose defonse is efficiënt ly effocted by a preponderating naval force. The uneiny has been driven completely from these stations. Now at the expiraiion of five inontlis from tho formatiou of the governmeut, not a single hostile foot presses their soil. The force, however, must necessarily provo inadequate to repel tho invasión of half a million of men proposed to be raised by our enemies.