are invincible by any force the North can raise to send against them.  Besides (to continue the sentiments of Henry), the battle is not to the strong alone, it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.  Especially so when, as I said before, the forces of Lincoln are not composed generally of men of the first rank of Society (except a few Officers desirous of Fame), but the “offscouring” & rabble of the land—­men who have nothing at stake, not even their own lives we might say, since they care so little for anything.  So that notwithstanding the immense number (and here let me remind you of the disparity of forces, of which you said so much, at Sumter)—­“stubborn facts”—­of which you speak, the South has nothing to fear.  And, moreover, as certainly as I believe there exists a God of Justice & Mercy, so certainly & conscientiously do I believe He will defend the South from the Vandals of the North.  Yes, dark as they seem, the clouds of gloom do not shut out the star of hope, and they are beginning to be spanned by a radiant bow of promise; the fall of Ellsworth & the shattered walls of the once presumed impreg^ble Sumter, abundantly testify that God is on their side, and “if the Lord be for them, who can be against them?” So I heartily say “God speed” them—­they shall have my prayers.—­But let us take one more glance at the expediency of this matter.  Are not the North fighting for a Patroclus’ grave in this struggle?  What matters an abstract banner? especially to the "matter of fact” Yankee? And then behold the inconsistency of the North in another point; they have through their Representatives, for many years, cried “no more slave territory”; and indeed many of them, such as Seward &c., have declared that slavery must be abolished, as both can’t exist under the same gov.; yet, now they are fighting to the death to keep or get back slave territory!!! “Oh! consistency!” And, finally, at this point, will it not cost myriads of lives & millions of money to accomplish their infernal designs, even could they do it?  And can the North afford this?  Even now it is costing Lincoln’s Anarchy (for I can’t call it gov.) _$1,000,000_ per day—­a matter of record! Suppose then the war sh^d last a year, what then?  Union or dis-union?  Alas, farther separation.  Continue it then two years more.  What then? Ditto & ditto it will be should it last as long as the “War of the Roses,” for we have no houses of York & Lancaster to unite, sign and settle the dispute by marriage—­one or both annihilated!—­And now I ask how, in the name of Reason, Justice, or Humanity, can you lift up your voice in defence of the North when they are the cause of all this accumulating misery?—­when they have deprived the South