Raftsman's Journal

Jefferson Davis' Message.

The telegraph informs us, says the Pittsburgh Chronicle, that the man who styles himself "President" of a Southern Confederacy, has sent in a message to a body of traitors convened as a Congress at Richmond, in which he informs said traitors that the only terms Mr. Lincoln would grant them, was a liberal and merciful exercise of the pardoning power. It would be difficult to imagine what claims these arrogant conspirators have upon the national clemency, and it is yet more difficult to conceive the stupendous assurance with which these double damned traitors, whose garments are soaking wet with the blood of thousands of our noblest citizens, assume to grow indignant over the offer of mercy which has been tendered them. President Lincoln has strengthened himself in the affections of his countrymen by the firmness of his course towards these guilty wretches, and our soldiers will see to it, that Jefferson Davis bitterly regrets the day he spurned the opportunity offered him of making atonement for his crimes, and receiving undeserved charity at the hands of the people he had involved in so much slaughter and distress. The day of retribution is not distant.