truth and duty, strike with a bound and a shout, well assured that your blows will fall upon ingrates, and traitors, and parricides, whose lust for power would make of this bright land one vast Golgotha, rather than be balked of their guilty aims-and may the God of your fathers give you the victory. I should have rejoiced to have met you within the limits of yonder proud Commonwealth from whence you came, and whose name you bear, but wise and patriotic men, whose motives I respect while dissenting from their conclusions, have willed it should be otherwise. Here, however, you are in the midst of friends, and have doubtless received a brother's welcome on the soil of a State which is not only loyal but proud of her loyalty-a State which, by the marching of her volunteers, announces every hour what a portion of her people have recently proclaimed by formal resolution, that "the suppression of this rebellion is worth more to the world than all our lives and all our money," and that she "cares nothing for life or worldly goods, when they can only be enjoyed amidst the ruins of our country." No Spartan hero, under the grandest inspirations of patriotism, ever uttered nobler sentiments than these. Indiana and Kentucky, it is true, are separated by a broad river, but in their history it has proved only a thread of light and beauty, across which their hands and their hearts have ever been clasped in friendship and in faith. In those stirring conflicts for principle which have arisen in their past, they have stood together on more than one bloody field shoulder to shoulder, they have borne onward through the thickest of the fight, that glorious banner, whose stars, I trust, will never grow dim; and now, your presence here to-day is a gladdening assurance that, in the momentous contest on whose threshold we stand, these States so long allied, ¦ will not be divided. For myself, I must be pardoned for saying, that next to our own beloved Kentucky, my bosom most overflows to ward the noble State under whose hospitable shelter we have met to-day. It was my fortune to pass my childhood and youth on my father's farm upon the banks of yonder river, and in the light of the morning and of the evening sun my eyes rested upon the free homes and grand forests of Indiana. I played upon her hills, and fished in her streams, and mingled with her people, when I was too young to know, what I trust I shall never be old enough to learn that this great country of ours has either North or South, East or West, in the affections and faith of its true and loyal citizens. Soldiers when Napoleon was about to spur on his legions to combat on the sands of an African desert, pointing them to the Egyptian pyramids that loomed up against the far-off horizon, he exclaimed, "From yonder summits forty centuries look down upon you." The thought was sublime and electric; but you have even more than this. When you shall confront those infuriated hosts, whose battle-cry is, "Down with the Government of the United States," let your answering shout be, "The Government as our fathers made it; " and when you strike, remember that not only do the good and the great of the past look down upon you from heights infinitely above those of Egyptian pyramids, but that uncounted generations yet to come are looking up to you, and claiming at your hands the unimpaired transmission to them of that priceless heritage which has been committed to our keeping. I say its unimpaired transmission-in all the amplitude of its outlines, in all the symmetry of its matchless proportions, in all the palpitating fulness of its blessings; not a miserably shrivelled and shattered thing, charred by the fires and torn by the tempests of revolution, and all over polluted and scarred by the bloody poniards of traitors. Soldiers: you have come up to your present exalted position over many obstacles and through many chilling discouragements. You now proclaim to the world that the battles which are about to be fought in defence of our common country, its institutions and its homes, are your battles, and that you are determined to share with your fellow-citizens of other States alike their dangers and their laurels; and sure I am that this determination has been in nothing shaken by the recent sad reverse of arms whose shadow is still resting upon our spirits. The country has indeed lost a battle, but it has not lost its honor, nor its courage, nor its hopes, nor its resolution to conquer. One of those chances to which the fortunes of war are ever subject, and against which the most consummate generalship cannot at all times provide, has given a momentary advantage to the forces of the rebellion. Grouchy did not pursue the column of Bulow, and thus Waterloo was won for Wellington at the very moment that victory, with her laurelled wreath, seemed stooping over the head of Napoleon. So Patterson did not pursue Johnston, and the overwhelming concentration of rebel troops that in consequence ensued was probably the true cause why the army of the United States was driven back, excellent as was its discipline, and self-sacrificing as had been its feats of valor. Panics, from slight and seemingly insignificant causes, have occurred in the best drilled and bravest of armies, and they prove neither the want of discipline nor of courage on the part of the soldiers. This check has taught us invaluable lessons, which we could not have learned from victory, while the dauntless daring displayed by our volunteers is full of promise for the future. Not to mention the intrepid bearing of other regiments, who can doubt our future when he recalls the brilliant charges of the New York Sixty-Ninth and of the Minnesota First, and of the Fire Zouaves? Leonidas himself, while surveying the Persian host, that, like a troubled sea, swept onward to the pass where he stood, would have been proud of the leadership of such men. We shall rapidly recover from this discomfiture, which, | race has gone up over the sepulchres alike of after all, will serve only to nerve to yet more men and of empires; yet above all this these extraordinary exertions the nineteen millions words have floated down to us, and still float of people who have sworn that this republic abroad upon the airs of the world like some shall not perish; and perish it will not, perish kindling strain of music, ever caught up and it cannot, while this oath remains. When we ever repeated with flashing eyes, and heard look away to that scene of carnage, all strewed with wildly pulsating hearts. Such is the with the bodies of patriotic men who courted power of patriotism, and such the spell its death for themselves that their country might truthful expression exerts over the great spirit live, and then look upon the homes which their of humanity. To woman, ever timid in the fall has rendered desolate forever, we realize sunshine, but ever brave in the storm, we offer -what I think the popular heart in its for- our thanks for this, and we feel that we must bearance has never completely comprehended shut our ears to the voices of her love and veil -the unspeakable and hellish atrocity of this our souls from the illuminations of her presrebellion. It is a perfect saturnalia of demoni-ence, before we can cease to be willing to live ac passion. From the reddened waters of Bull and to die in defence of those institutions Run, and from the gory field of Manassas, which, more than all others that have existthere is now going up an appeal to God and to ed, have given to her that position of dignity millions of exasperated men against those fiends and moral power which the shining impress in human shape, who, drunken with the orgies she bears from her Creator's hands so fully enof an infernal ambition, are filling to its brim titles her to occupy. the cup of a nation's sorrows. Woe, woe, I say, to these traitors when this appeal shall be answered! Doc. 147. OFFICIAL REPORT OF COL. DAVIES I must offer you my sincere congratulations on the leadership of that true patriot and soldier, around whose standard you have gath- ON THE OCCUPATION OF FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE,va. ered. When others hesitated, he was decided; when others faltered, he was bold. The Government laid its hand upon his loyal bosom and found it burning with the inextinguishable fires of patriotism at a time when so many others, from the best motives in the world, were carefully packing themselves away to keep in the ices of neutrality. I honor him, Kentucky will honor him, the nation will honor him. When you move, as soon you may, to the seat of war, Kentucky, despite the whispered caution of politicians, will cheer you on, and will hang with prayerful solicitude over you, alike upon your march and amid the heady currents of battle. Loyal men every where are exclaiming "God speed you," and "All hail to your courage and patriotism." Glory beckons you onward and upward, and could the illustrious dead hear you in the graves where they sleep, your every footfall, as you advance to your country's battle-fields, would be music to their ears. I am grateful to you all, but especially to our fair country women, for this distinguished reception. It can never be forgotten that it was from a Spartan mother that came those words of heroic patriotism which have never been equalled by any that have fallen from the lips of man. For more than twenty centuries the deepening shadows have fallen upon the rivers and the seas, upon the mountains and the plains of the past, and yet, from the midst of all this gloom, these words still gleam out upon us like lightning from a summer's cloud. For more than two thousand years the earth has been convulsed and shaken to its moral foundations; nations and generations of nations have risen and perished by slow decay or amid the shock of battles, and the wail of our stricken HEAD-QUARTERS 2D BRIGADE, 5TH DIVISION, July 17, 1861. To Colonel Miles, Commanding 5th Division:— Agreeably to general order No. 9, the 2d brigade, commanded by me, consisting of the 16th, 18th, 31st, and 32d regiments, and Company G 2d artillery, (Green's light battery,) took the advance of the 5th division, moving on Fairfax Court House by way of the old Braddock road, south of the turnpike road. I found the road very difficult for heavy artillery, and barricaded by trees felled across the road as often as once in a quarter of a mile, requiring the constant use of the pioneer corps. After passing over many of these barricades, we came to a blind barricade directly across the road, and evidently intended for artillery: after making a reconnoissance, we found a small picket posted behind it, when my advanced pickets were ordered to charge and fire upon them, which they did, dispersing it under a running fire. No one on our side was injured, and we never turned aside to ascertain whether any of the enemy were killed or not; the pickets reported, however, seeing several men fall. This running fire and reconnoissance was continued to within one mile of Fairfax Court House, the enemy continuing retreating and firing upon our advancing pickets at every convenient opportunity. After the exchange of fire, a reconnoissance was made, discovering many abandoned masked batteries, and at last quite an extensive temporary fortification about one and a half miles from Fairfax Court House, out of which we drove the enemy, who left their camp equipage, clothing, swords, and the like. We then pressed into the encampment of the 5th Alabama regiment, which fled be fore us, leaving many valuable articles, guns, | tended to await his return to Missouri before I camp equipage, tents, corn, stores, and personal baggage of all sorts, and their hospital sick taking the road, as we understood, to Centreville and Manassas Junction. At this point, having received information that Gen. McDowell had taken possession of Fairfax Court House, the 5th division encamped partly on the ground of the 5th Alabama, and the balance in the vicinity of the cross-roads. I have to report to you that we had three men wounded-one in the leg, one in the side, and one through the hand; we did not stop to examine the effect of shots which were made, but it is reported to me that as many as 15 or 20 were seen to fall in the woods. I have to report to you further the energetic manner in which Lieut.-Col. Young, of the 18th regiment, in charge of the advanced guard, performed his duty, and further, that not a single man of any regiment fell back for an instant, but, on the contrary, the most determined bravery was displayed by every man who came in contact with the enemy.* Respectfully, your obedient servant, THOMAS A. DAVIES, Doc. 148. LT.-GOV. REYNOLDS' PROCLAMATION. should enter the State; but on consultation War dissolves all political unions. The Lincoln Administration, by an open war upon our State, commenced by the perfidious capture of Camp Jackson, has dissolved the Union which, under the Constitution of the United States, connected Missouri with the country still under Mr. Lincoln's sway. Its acts fully justify separation on the part of our State, or revolution on the part of individual citizens. The Lincoln government and its partisans have distinctly announced their intention to decide by force the future destiny of Missouri; their opponents, always willing to accept the decision of the people, are nevertheless compelled to meet the issue tendered by the enemies of her sovereignty. The wish of her people to In an address to you on the 8th inst., I sisterhood of Southern commonwealths to which remain under the same government with that stated that, on a proper occasion and at a she has belonged is clear from the conduct of proper time, our brethren of the South would her oppressors; had they not felt certain of extend us efficient aid in our struggle for our defeat in a reference of the question to her liberties. That occasion and that time have people, they would never have resorted to arrived. The sun which shone in its full mid-force to retain her in the Northern Union. day splendor at Manassas is about to rise upon Missouri. At the instance of Governor Jack-which has united us to the North has been virFor these reasons, holding that the bond son, expressed through Major E. C. Cabell, of tually broken by the unprovoked tyranny of St. Louis, Commissioner of Missouri to the the Lincoln government and the approval of Confederate States, and in gratification of the that tyranny by the Congress and people of wish which during the last two months I have that section, I consider every citizen of Mislabored to accomplish, I return to the State to souri fully relieved of obligation to regard it. accompany, in my official capacity, one of the Our country being partially overrun by foes, our armies which the warrior statesman, whose General Assembly cannot now be convened. genius now presides over the affairs of our The Convention called into existence by the half of the Union, has prepared to advance Legislature, merely as an advisory body to against the common foe. In thus doing justice present to the people, at the proper time, the to the warm and active sympathy of the Presi- question of separation from the North, has dent and people of the Confederate States for been virtually dissolved by the acts of the eneour cause, I also feel bound to allude to the my in banishing and imprisoning many of its very essential aid rendered us by Major Cabell. members, and thus giving the minority the apAs our commissioner, he has displayed at Mont-pearance of a majority of the body. At its gomery and Richmond a zeal and ability in our behalf which deserve the very highest praise. He remains at Richmond to represent our interests. It gives me great pleasure thus publicly to acknowledge his important services. Governor Jackson having considered it desirable for him to visit Richmond, I had in See Document 98, ante. present session, held amid foreign bayonets, its members admitted to its hall by passes from the local instrument of the Lincoln despotism, the heroic resistance of a patriotic minority honor and dignity of a State. Reduced to a may fail in preventing attempts to betray the mere rump, it may become a convenient tool of foes, but its acts cannot decide the destiny To provide for this very condition of things, our General Assembly, in May last, passed an act, (which I am proud to say, originated in suggestions made by me to its proposer, Senator Johnson, of St. Louis,) by which, in view of the rebellion in St. Louis and the invasion of our State, the Governor was "authorized to take such measures as in his judgment he may deem necessary or proper to repel such invasion or put down such rebellion." As that rebellion and invasion have been sanctioned by the Government and people of the North, one of the most proper measures to protect our interests is a dissolution of all connection with them. In the present condition of Missouri, the executive is the only constitutional authority left in the free exercise of legitimate power within her limits. Her motto, "Salus populi suprema lex esto," should be his guide; to him "let the people's welfare be the highest law." Under existing circumstances it is his clear duty to accept the actual situation of affairs, and simplify the real issues, by making, under the statute above mentioned, and subject to the future control of the General Assembly and the people, a provisional declaration, in the name and on behalf of the people of Missouri, that her union with the Northern States has been dissolved by their acts of war upon her, and that she is, and of right ought to be, a sovereign, free, and independent State. of Missouri. The patriotic members still in it mane principles of civilized regular warfare. ought to leave a body in which the nauseating Without determining in advance what reparaatmosphere of military tyranny stifles free de- tion should be exacted for the inhuman outbate; the others, gone over to the public ene- rages perpetrated in Missouri, under the counmy, either through inborn depravity or un- tenance of the brutal proclamations issued by manly fear, should hasten to the feet of the the Lincoln leaders, Lyon, Curtis, Pope, and Northern despot to seek their expected re- others, I will give at least this assurance, that, wards, where thrift may follow fawning. expecting better things from Major-General Fremont, the State authorities will doubtless afford him an early opportunity of determining whether the war is hereafter to be conducted by his forces and partisans in accordance with civilized usages. The shooting of women and children, the firing into the windows of a crowded court of justice, at St. Louis, the cowardly acts of the Lincoln soldiery towards such respectable and patriotic citizens as Alexander Kayser and A. W. Simpson, the arbitrary arrests of ex-Senator Green, Mr. Knott, Mr. Bass, and other distinguished citizens, the murder of Dr. Palmer, the summary shooting of unarmed men in North Missouri, without the form even of drum-head court-martial, and many other transactions sanctioned or left unpunished by General Fremont's predecessors, are barbarities which would disgrace even Camanches. If like acts cannot hereafter be prevented by motives of humanity, considerations of an enlightened military policy may be awakened in him by the retaliation which, in subjection to the laws of civilized warfare, but swift, sure, ample, stern, unrelenting, and, if necessary, bloody, the Missouri State authorities feel themselves both able and determined to institute. On the Lincoln Government will rest the entire responsibility, before God and in history, for the character of a war which, if continued as it has been begun by their forces in our State, will soon become one of the most bloody and calamitons on The conviction that the decision of this ques-record; for the Grizzly Bear of Missouri, not a tion can be safely left to the patriotism of Gov- very amiable animal even when merely supernor Jackson, and would more properly ema-porting her shield in time of peace, will be a nate from the regular executive of the State, is ruthless foe when let loose on those who, havthe only ground for my not exercising the pow-ing causelessly excited his ire, will be certain to ers of Governor temporarily in me invested, get, sooner or later, within reach of his deathand at once issuing a formal declaration to that dealing paws. effect. But in order that my position, both as a citizen and officer of Missouri's government, may be distinctly understood, I deem it proper to declare that, disregarding forms and looking to realities, I view any ordinance for her separation from the North and union with the Confederate States as a mere outward ceremony to give notice to others of an act already consummated in the hearts of her people; and that, consequently, all persons cooperating with the expedition I accompany will expect that, in the country under its influence, no authority of the United States of America will be permitted, and that of Missouri, as a sovereign and independent State, will be exercised with a view to her speedy regular union with her Southern sisters. It is almost unnecessry to announce that the operations of the Confederate States forces and the Missouri State troops coöperating with them, will be conducted according to the most hu To those Missourians who desire to cooperate with this expedition, specific information will be duly given of the course they should pursne. While the military operations of the Confederate States against the common foe will most materially aid us in our struggle for freedom, yet our ultimate deliverance must of course depend upon our own exertions. Let every Missourian prepare himself to take part in our war of independence; in due season that part will be indicated to him. But above all, let us humbly invoke the aid of Almighty God, the sure refuge of the oppressed; for He has declared that "the battle is not to the strong, nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all." Citizens of Missouri: in this decisive crisis of our destiny, let us rally as one man to the standard of our State. The inscription on the border of Missouri's shield warns us against di scatter them to the winds; while tardy action, like the gentle South wind, will only meet with Northern frosts, and advance and recede, and like the seasons, will be like the history of the war, and will last forever. Come now, strike while the iron is hot! Our enemies are whipped in Virginia. They have been whipped in Missouri. General Hardee advances in the centre, Gen. Pillow on the right, and Gen. McCulloch on the left, with 20,000 brave Southern hearts to our aid. So leave your ploughs in the furrow, and your oxen in the yoke, and rush like a tor vision among ourselves. "United we stand, I divided we fall." I particularly address myself to those who, though Southern in feeling, have permitted a love of peace to lead them astray from the State cause. You now see the State authorities about to assert with powerful forces their constitutional rights; you behold the most warlike population on the globe, the people of the lower Mississippi valley, about to rush with their gleaming bowie knives and unerring rifles to aid us in driving out the abolitionists and their Hessian allies. If you cordially join our Southern friends, the war must soon depart Mis-nado upon our invaders and foes, to sweep them souri's borders; if you still continue, either in apathy or in indirect support of the Lincoln Government, you only bring ruin on yourselves by fruitlessly prolonging the contest. The road to peace and internal security is only through union with the South. We will receive you as brothers, and let bygones be bygones; rally to the Stars and Bars in union with our glorious ensign of the Grizzly Bear. from the face of the earth, or force them from Doc. 150. A "NAVAL ENGAGEMENT." FROM a gentleman of the highest respectabil The Confederate State forces, under the gallant Pillow, have entered Missouri on the invitation of Governor Jackson, to aid us in expelling the enemy from the State; they should therefore be received by every patriotic citizen as friends and allies. By virtue of the powers vested in the Governor by the act before mentioned, approved May, 1861, entitled "An act to authorize the Governor of the State of Missouri to suppress rebellion and repel invasion," I do hereby, as acting Governor of Missouri, inity-who was an eye-witness of the fight-we the temporary absence of Governor Jackson, authorize, empower, and request General Pillow to make and enforce such civil police regulations as he may deem necessary for the security of his forces, the preservation of order and discipline in his camp, and the protection of the lives and property of the citizens. By virtue of the same act I also extend like authority to Brigadier-General Thompson, from whose military experience and spirit brilliant services are confidently expected, in his command of the Missouri State Guard in this district. have the particulars of an engagement which occurred on last Friday at Horn Island Pass, between a Federal steam-frigate, supposed to be the Niagara, and the little Confederate privateer, J. O. Nixon. The Nixon, wishing to avail herself of the fair wind, left Pascagoula Bay last Friday morning, intending to go Yankee hunting on the deep blue sea. When about twelve miles from Horn Island Pass, she discovered a large Federal steamer ahead, attempting to cut her off. The Nixon tacked and stood in again for the Pass, and reached the bar about a mile ahead of the Federalist. The latter then opened fire on her at that distance; the Nixon immediately responded, and the exchange of shots was carried on for about twenty minutes. In the mean time the little Lake steamer Arrow came up, and when within range of the Federalist, let slip some of her 32's at the Yankees. At about twenty minutes after the firing commenced, the Federalist, with three of the Nixon's heavy pills in her hull, got up a big head of steam, and crowding on every inch of canvas she could use, made regular Manassas time seaward. Not the slightest injury was received by the Nixon or the steamer Arrow, whilst it is thought that the additional weight of those three balls which were lent the Federalist by the Nixon, may impede her progress to some extent. She has not been seen in that quarter since. -New Orleans Delta, August 5. |