from the March 3, 1864 LAWRENCE KANSAS TRIBUNE
The War Problem.
After a lapse of time one has been found competent to set forth the problem of the rebel dilemma. We find it in twenty propositions, which are based upon the leading opinions of the North and South, and brought into phalanx by an enterprising contemporary. Each proposition establishes a quandary ; and though the rebellion may be a powerful fact, it is at least a logical impossibility:
1. If they increase their army they cannot feed it.
2. Unless they increase their army they are whipped.
3. Unless the press speaks out their liberties are gone.
4.If the press speaks out their government is gone.
5. Unless they draft the whole population they must surrender.
6. If they draft the whole population they must starve.
7. Unless they recover East Tennessee they can get no saltpeter.
8. If they undertake to recover East Tennessee they will get more saltpeter than they want.
9. Unless they free the negroes they have nothing left to fight with. 004 10.
10 If they free the negroes they have nothing to fight for.
11 Ever: since the rebellion begun negroes have been falling. 12. Nevertheless, their greatest: fear now is that the negroes should rise.
13. Unless Jeff. Davis repudiates his debts he can't borrow from anybody.
14.If he repudiates nobody will lend to him. 16.
If he impresses food he turns the land into a dessert.
16. Unless he impresses food he turns his men into deserters.
17. They can't win in the war until they have got the means of building railroads.
18. They can't get the means of building railroads.
19.If they fight they lose the day
20. Unless they fight they lose every day.
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