Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-10-03
= HOPE THAT HAS DELUDED.

The New York Heraid-the trucking and Venal
organ of popular opinion IN the North-in a late
issue makes the acknowledgment that " the main
ground Of hope on which the war was ~inaugura-
ted, was the adhesion Of the Union sentiment Of
the South to the Federal cause, so soon as the
progress Of northern arms gave It free utterance-"
There IS every reason 10 believe that this ex-
pectation, unfounded and speculative as Il has
proven in fact, was the igHis tatsSs that actually
deluded the Yankees into their present awkward
diIeInma. On the both Of December last, when
South Carolina, as the brave AMI fearless pioneer
of the southern cause, first ventured 10 chiyalrous-
~ tread alone the unbeaten and rugged path Of
seNessi0n, if the ten slave States, thathsve since en-
dorsed her action, had simultaneously shaken of
The chains of Federal yassalage, rs we can all
readily see now, this war would have been aver
ted. Such . course would have speedily disa-
bu ed the northern mind of the criminal idea it
cni ataiDed, that the people OF the South could be
induced to engage in the diversion 81 euttinc each
others throats for the preservation of a govern
menl whose benefits they had virtually ceased to
enjoy.
This delusion OF a divided South furnished the
handspring 70 the action of the Washington
diyan upon the day when it, voice, Ike that Of
SESHRONfoUs, enthusiastically pronounced for
war. They gave willing cnedence 10 the lbelous
assertion, that the mighty storm which agitated
the political waters was the artificial work of a few
Southern de~magogues, politicians and ambitious
men, who hoped, amid the hustle and excitement
Of governmental mutation, 10 further their own
schemes Of official lust and selEaggTandizement.
Mistaken ia the motive which prompted many
Of he STATE conventions to refuse the submission
Of the secession ordinances to the ballot-box for
popular ratification, the North was az the same
lime sadly deceived in the construction which
they attached to the vote of the mon parry in
she South. They mistook the character and in
tenfiOn Of the men who, unwisely believing that
there WIS yet salvation for the shin Of State,
threw their bodies in the breach, and arrested,
for q time at least, the rushing torrent Of seces-
sion that came sureing up freu the Atlantic
coast, threatening 10 throw the leaking hun upon
The breakers.
And The North was persisiinsIy tentative Of
this obstinate error. lis encouragement was a
1atlering JUNCTION which they coed Law 10 their
souls. and feel relieved Il in &c solaee il furnished.
Their politicians and pqrrens statesmen, thair
pulpit ana the press, al labored TO bolster up
me ael sni{ul theory that the war was Inaugural
ed Tor the highly laudable purpose Of reseuing
the down-ircdden people Of The South from The
despoticrale ola poliicaloligarchy which had, by
some unexplained ehicanery and legerdeHain.
succeeded in foistng itself into power.
JEFFERSON DAVIS was denounced, from the
Ponobscot to the Mississippi, as a vile usurpeT
who had established a bogus paper Confederacy
against the VIII Of the southern people, and il
was maintained that the Union element would
rise up in the majesty Of lis might end sweep
away his administration SO sOon-in the language
Of the Herald" as the progress Of northern arms
gave Il free utterance."
But alas, how widely have the ~sanguiHe var
ricrs OF Yankeedem missed the mark. Their rain
bow vision has vanished without being realized
The beautiful fruit so temptingly held Quito their
taste, like the Dead Sea apples, has TUNED to
ashes on the lips. They now find themselves
grossly, eriminally deceived; and 50 great is the
chagrin of their fansticism that they gnash their
teeth in iEPotent threats OF vengeance against
the rebels and traitors who BETRAYED them.
The South presents to-day a degree Of mani
nifty in the defense Of her soil from The invader.
that is universally acknowledged 10 be without a !
parallel in the history OF revolutions. The Guns
Of Fort Sumter, while they maddened the nouh-
ern mind into a spirit Of proscriptive infoIergnce.
completely solicited political sentiment In In
SJuth. NAPOLEON, after bis aboniye and di.ss-
nous campaign in Russia, expressed the opinion
that the surest antidote against military s~ubiuca-
Ton by a foreign Zoe, was to b. found IN the pop
ular love for the institutionsof the country whose
soil was invaded But this naig Of he South
carries with it a strength not less powerful and
consequential. The enemyhas buIshis air castles
Of speculation upon its presumed sbsence. Hi,-
tory VII accord toit the credit Of having proven
iae principal cause Of that success which 81
surely awaits the glorious co-nsummaiion II this
war.