A REBEL MANIFESTO: The Confederate Congress to the People; RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE REBELLION (2/25/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 2/25/1864

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The following is the address of the rebel Congress to the people of the Confederate States, to which we made brief reference yesterday:

ADDRESS OF CONGRESS.

TO THE PEOPLE OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES.

In closing the labors of the First Permanent Congress, your Representatives deem it a fit occasion to give some account of their proceedings; to review briefly what, under such embarrassments and adverse circumstances, has been accomplished; to invite attention to the prospect before us, and the duties incumbent on every citizen in this crisis; and to address such words of counsel and encouragement as the times demand.

CAUSE OF THE WAR.

Compelled by a long series of oppressive and tyrannical acts, culminating at last in the selection of a President and Vice-President by a party confessedly sectional and hostile to the South and her institutions, these States withdrew from the former Union, and formed a new Confederate alliance, as an independent Government, based on the proper relations of abor and capital. This step was taken reluctantly, by constraint, and after the exhaustion of every measure that was likely to secure us from interference with our property, equality in the Union, or exemption from submission to an alien Government. The Southern States claimed only the unrestricted enjoyment of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. Finding, by painful and protracted experience, that this was persistently denied, we determined to separate from those enemies, who had manifested the inclination and ability to impoverish and destroy us; we fell back upon the right for which the colonies maintained the war of the revolution, and which our heroic forefathers asserted to be clear and inalienable. The unanimity and zeal with which the separation was undertaken and perfected, finds no parallel in history. The people rose en masse to assert their liberties

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A Rebel Manifesto: The Confederate Congress to the People – 2-4
Gen. Grant’s Department: Further of Gen. Palmer’s Advance – 4
The War in Arkansas: Advices from Fort Smith – 4
From the South: Wholesale Hanging of Deserters – 4
Common Sense Wanted in Congress: Want of Common Sense – 4-5
News from Washington: Special Dispatches to the N.Y. Times – 5
Editorial: No Gradual Emancipation – 5-6
Editorial: English Foreign Policy – 6

[BrexitBen]

It was the “ Confederate Congress “, not the “ Rebel Congress “.

The New York Times, mischaracterizing the news religiously for over 175 tears.