A LAST APPEAL BY THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS.

Colonist, Volume VIII, Issue 799, 23 June 1865, Page 3

A LAST APPEAL BY THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS.

New York, March 23.—The Rebel Congress, before taking its hasty leave of Richmond, and after refusing to adopt any of the measures urged by Davis as requested, to save the rebel cause, issued an address to the Southern people. It begins by saying that they cannot have peace except by the sacrifice of their independence and property, and that subjugation and extermination are the only terms they can get. It then refers to what they regard as the evils of re-union, and makes appeal to Southern manhood. It gives a colored view of the resources of the South, and calls on the people to drive into the ranks again the absentees and skulkers. It congratulates the country^on the appointment of Lee as General-in-Chief; apologises for the heavy burden of taxation they have been obliged to impose. They believe that the people of the United States have become tired of the war. They say they can at any time have peace by abandoning their wicked attempts at subjugation. They recite again their grievances under the old (Government, and call upon the people to emulate the example of the Russians when Napoleon invaded their territory. They wind up with a stirring appeal, saying success is within their reach; that the battle is not to the strong, and that the shades of their martyred heroes hover over and beckon

them on.