Year: 1861

CANT BE CoNoUERED.-The Marysville Ex-
press tells US


"If the Republican party were not blind to the
/ teachings of history, they would know that ten
millions of people-as brave and warlke people
as ever existed upon earth-led by Generals of
consummate skill-united together in a common
cause-fghting upon their own soi-for their
homes and fresides-for life, liberty and honor
/ can never be conquered by any power that the
world can send against them."


The Express is romantic in its style of putting
the case, and not over-scrupulous in regard to
facts. In the first place, there are not more than
five millions and half of white population in
the seeded States. In the second, the people
are not "uaited together in common cause"
1t is doubtful if one-thrd of the people are with
the secessionists at heart Thirdly, to say the
rebels are fighting for 'life, liberty and honor"
is the tallest kind of fiction. No people could
have enjoyed greater degree of liberty when
they preciptated the fight; and as to "honor," it
would not do to leave the decision of that ques-
ton to disinterested parties, even supposing them
not 20 have been swinded by the bogus coin of
the New Orleans Mint, by the refusal of South
ern merchants to pay their just debts, or losses
sustained by the capture and detention of valu-
able private property on deposit in public insti-
tions. OF all words, let the friends of the
Southern Cenfederacy avoid the use of that.


The Express, for its own purposes, admits that
the cause of the jeff. Davis Government is ere
bellion." Let us inquire, then, if it might not
be crushed.


Suppose the masses of the Southern people to
be opposed las they really are) to this rebellion,
when the reaction commences they will have
controlling voice in council. Suppose the army
of jeff. Davis to be annhilated at its first, second
or third encounter, where is he to get another
one composed of the 'fower'' of the South
Suppose his ability to raise another where
is he to find the money to support it, the provis-
ions to feed it, the arms to equip it :? Not by
by inland conveyance, for all such articles are
declared contraband of war. Not within them
selves, for being non-manufacturers and limited
producers, their supply is entirely inadequate to
the demand. What, therefore, shall prevent the
rebels from being conquered?


A disease exists at the very heart of the new
Confederacy, which in time would alone consume
lie ~ ID W uo iucdAS Stll-SuppOItluys anu tne
world at large has been astonished to find how
weak it is in all the elements which should make
people great and powcrful-how weak in re-
sources, in dignity, in credit, in reputation, in
the ability to command ar influence abroad, or
create sympathy among those whom it had count
ed upon from identity of interest and of political
association.


Although it may quote the language of some
Northern fanatic to give cooring to its ridiculous
assumptions, the Express knows very well that
the Government is waging no war of subjuga-
ton. 1t uses such quotations, just as the lead
of the rebel cause use the language of boast,
to "darken the waters, that it may escape the
eve and the aim of the ayenonp nnrsner"