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The War.
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President Davis's message in England.
The English papers, of March 17 and 18, team with laudatory comments on President Davis's message to Congress, of which the subjoined, from the London Herold, is a fair sample:
The brevity of Mr. Davis's first message to the Confederate Congress is of promising omen for those who take interest in American politics.
Under the Federal Government such messages had become lengthy beyond all reason or excuse, and feeble in proportion to their length; it was a duty to print, but an intolerable nuisance to read them.--A better example is set by the first President of the Southern Confederacy.
The language and temper of his message do honor to his country and to himself.
It is terse and sensible — calm and manly.
The chief of a nation struggling for existence against a strong and savage enemy — passionately hated for his strength, and bitterly despised for his savagery--Mr. Dav