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control; emancipation was accepted in Maryland and missouri; one hundred thousand negro slaves were in the United States military service, and the annual elections of 1863 are highly encouraging. The President pronounced the period as the new reckoning—the crisis which threatened to divide the friends of the Union is past. Mr. Lincoln had sufficient grounds for the exultant tone of his message. The President of the Confederate States addressed the Southern Congress which assembled December 7, 1863, in his annual message admitting the grave reverses, but called attention to the victories won by the gallant troops so ably commanded in the States beyond the Mississippi over the invaders of Louisiana and Texas, and to the successful defense of Charleston against the joint land and naval operations of the enemy, while on more than one occasion the army in Virginia had forced the invaders to retreat precipitately to their entrenched lines. If we are forced, says the Confederate Presid