Year: 1862

It is impossible to reduce to subsection
ten millions of freemen determined on a
separate government. In the Revolutions
ry War the English armies for time car.
ried all before them. Every city was oc-
cupied, every battle was won by the Roy
slists. But the determination of the Col
opists remained-s power mightier than ar
mics and superior to the fatal accidents of
hundred campaigns. The power that,
though strong in the field, was weak in the
hearts of the people, found it necessary to
succumb in the end. Should the Federals
occupy Nashville, and make prisoners Of
all that remains of the Confederate army
of the West; should Johnston be routed
on the Potomac, and Virginia overrun by
the conaucrers; should the Northern flo.
silla steam down the broad Mississippi and
burn New Orleans ; should Savannah and
Charleston; Richmond and Norfolk, every
stronghold of the South, be lost, the I'm
|ionists will be no nearer to the end than
now. The resolve of the South to remain
no longer in the Union is fixed and irrevo-
cable. If the Union conquests carried a.
long with them Union sentiment, we might
admit that restoration of that Union was
not yet impossible. 1t would then be q
question Of arms, dependent on the acci.
dents of war; it lis now becoming more and
more question Of feeling. Every advan'
tage gained by the North but adds to the
bitter hostility of their kiusmen in the
Southern States, who already hate them as
intensely as ever Englishmen hated French
men in the long wars of Europe. Let US
quote on this point the evidence Of Dr..
Russell, man certainly not prejudiced a.
gainst the Northern cause {:


ga gentleman who had s good deal of
conversation with the Confederate prisoners
at Roanoke says they spoke with unani-
nous bitterness of the North, and thet he
could not detect trace of '"Union senti.
ment," though they we're in captivity
Burnside's expedition has failed to elicit
any sUnion sentiment in North Carolina,
which was said to be bubbling up with it,
and sent bogus senator to represent it
in Congress. In Clarksville two-thirds of
the inhabitants fed on the approach of the
Federals, and with rare exceptions the
fight of the people and the firing of their
property by their own hands, as at Eden
ton, have been the usual modes of express
sing their joy at the sight of the stars and
stripes"


We doubt if there be really any such
thing as . Union party at the South. 1t
must be noted that it is in the border States
shat this absence Of sympathy for the North
is signalized by the special correspondent
of the Times. If the secession feeling is
so strong in the territory which is still the
bone of contention between the rival ar.
mics, how much stronger must it be in the
States that first seeded, aud that still form
the head and front of the Southern move
ment. Dissentions are, indeed, spoken of
in the ranks of the Confederates, but when
we come to inquire into them, we find that
the dissensions are SO far from the thought
of making terms, that thay reproach the
Government of President Davis for not
carrying on offensive war, for confuiug its
military operations to the defence of South
ern territory. In fine, We are persuaded
that the rule Of the men Of New England
is at an end forever in the countries that
lie to the south of the Ohio and the Mis-
souri,. If the Union is ever restored, it
can only be constituted on the basis of VOL
untary suffrage, and that consent will never
be given by any Of the slaveholding States.
Victory after victory to the North will not
alter our conviction as to the inevitable de-
nouement of this pro6tless strife. Years
ago, the Northern abolition;sts fcresav in
the separation of the free from the slave
States the only possible solution to the sla-
very question. Their arguments were as
unanswerable then as now, but in times of
popuiar excitement the still small voice Of
reason is seldom heard. The North will
not resign its extravagapt claims at the mo-
meut when victory crowns its arms-we
suppose it will go on to receive another
lesson of defeat. As far as We can see,
this is not likely to be long delayed. The
generals in the West, flushed with unhoped
for successes, are acting on their own re-
sponsibility, and altogether without author
Iity, either of Gen. Mcclellan or the SEQ.