I am certain as to its being so in several cases.  The very 1st boat thus ill-treated was one belonging to the South on its way down the Miss. & attacked at Cairo.  To retaliate they determined to attack North^en boats coming up the river.  And what have your noble Ohioans done lately & repeatedly with our Ka. boats at Gallipolis?  Thrice have they overhauled the same boat and twice kept every pound of freight on her timbers.  But this is not all; your humane Lincoln has closed the Southern ports, & is daily robbing vessels on their way in & out of the same.  During the last week he stole $150,000 worth of Southern Tobacco, & thus the programme continues. Very humane indeed! Again, he is no invader! No indeed! by no means! yet hundreds of Citizens are now fleeing from Wheeling, & other towns invaded, for personal safety.  Scarce a day passes but some one stops here who has thus escaped.  If they remain on their own soil and round their proper hearthstone the (very) humane doom of a murderer awaits them!  The North don’t intend to make invasion at all, yet 4000 F^l troops are now in Parkersburg, breaking up printing presses, putting innocent people in jail, and doing other humane acts, “too numerous to mention.”  According to my letter from Father I understand they don’t have the first principles of Civilized warfare—­they intend to hang all their prisoners.  Oh! humanity! HUMANITY!

And now that we have seen that neither Reason, Justice, nor Humanity is on the side of the North, let us look at the subject in the light of Expediency, admitting, for the sake of argument the while, that it were right or just to wage the war.  And viewing it from this standpoint, we ask, what does the North expect to gain by it?  Does there live a man so lost to reason & common sense as to imagine that the Union of the seceded States with the N.S. can ever be effected again? And if it could be done by force, how long could a Repub^n Gov. exist as a military despotism?  And who would not prefer banishment or death to such a life? What Satisfac^n could the North themselves have in such an event?  They would live a life of misery; provoke the sneers of the civilized world; and draw down upon their heads the terrible wrath of an offended God.

But this war will not be permitted thus to terminate, the South can never be conquered.  You yourself know their “spirit” too well to believe otherwise.  Rather than be subjugated they will die a triple death.  Like their mighty Henry they cry, “Give us liberty or give us death!” And still more I don’t think they can be exterminated. 8,000,000 of people, armed in the holy cause of self-defence; struggling for their liberties, honor, interests, & lives, with a laudable ambition, & an unyielding perseverance,