Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-04-24
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Chsgrined at the fact that the South Is not
to be sedueed into submission to an abolition
Government BY honied words aud bland per
Huasior, the Yankee dynasty has commenced
the project az Intimidation. They svs inaugu-
rated the game q brag. and are seeking to
shock the southern nerve ard paralize southern
vslor BY gigantic military displays within tie
precincts OF their own territory. The sbogus
Governmental Montgomery is to be frightened
from its moorings BY TIE mastering OF large
bodies Of soldiery ia he fsr-od distance. and
crushed in It's infancy by the cruising Of war
steamers Oh TIE Atlantic coast, without The
reach Of southern guns. TIE telegraph is G =
chief instrument used By these doughty vsr-
Hons IN accomplishing their victory, ard seems
by the way, to be more preferable to them than
some others that look to Us more Efficient. With
II they imProVise armies, equip navies, CONSOLE
date the north. vote thousands Of men and
money ~ ready Ter the conflict, and chalk out
Programmes on paper for the conquest Of the
South. re have DO tslegraphic nsws from
TIE northern cities that is not so colored with
the nsaoseity Of sbolitionism as to be iaeapa-
BE Of hsi- 2 recognized, when actually coming
to hand IN ths plain ~hsbiIinsnts OF undecorated
truth We hear through this reliable vehicle
on enc dsv. that Gov. CARrx. Of Psnnsvlvs-
MA has val antly offered the not ineonsiderabfs
san cf three hundred thousand men fo- tie
sP0Ttige work Of southern s~ubiugstion. A few
DAYS pass, aid truth, like the lame messenger,
eoues tardi'y, bringing the Information that It
was al done ty the mere stroke Of Q pen, being
% rnuwH HnH Hr~~ ~e--HH-a-- --sN=-- a.
SIMILAR clustering demonstrations are being
perPetrated every day, and Invariably eventu-
ate in like failures.
This method o. conQuest-9rr fs uirss-l
is a mach more pleasant work. We would re-
mind orr northern fleads, than tbeusual resort
to the implements used on the battle field. il
they anticipate that eur people are to be bullisd
into allegiance in such a manner, thew have
sadly mistaken their character. TIE attempts
to screw az their own waning courage By con
soIing eiecti5 on upon their superiority il brute
force, has no more effect toward the eonsum-
nation Of bsir triumph than The volley Of pa
per bullets continually showered upon Us by
their vsnsl press. The race is Dot always to
the swift alone, ucr the battle % The strong.
History, in fact, has Illustrated tHe little sd-
vantage that h gained BY mere numbers Of
troops in a conflict over and again, ever since
the r7st army Of XEExEs was driven back
and routed r. PASS q Thson5poin, down
to the more recent bat scarcely less brilliant
victories achieved By sosthsra proves upon c
the Hoody plains O. N-r-H Empty threats
oaiy inspire coutsur and elicit defiance
from a valiant veomanrv, who have DO such a
word as acowardics' 10 tbeir Vocabulary. a
TIE South expects q hani-saraed triumph, but
triumph q viI b.. They well r~eeoieet that
their revolutionary fathers were denounced as D
% rsbsls land traitor" BY The tyrannicsl min Q
ions q George the Third, and despite tie fact {
the sttempt vas made BY some twenty C
millions Ct people 20 demonstrate to less &
tan Tires millions that they bad a Govern
nent, The f1t1lty Of the effort vas shown in 6
the establishment Of American Independence
upon sfru bssis, after hsrs struggle Of seven
rsars. There is q lesson Of wisdom in that
revolution which forrbly addresses itself 10
IT, remnant Of sober Sought that yet fingers
~ the intoxicated b-sin Of northern fsnati-
eisn. It is that a people, determined At all
hszsrds 70 be free, car never be ~vaBquished-
ms nay not sppesr 90 plain to the ignorant
brrberianB who propose % try l. as yet, but
ninety DAYS more viii give them a vivid in
preston Of its truth. The southern people can
~sssrcsiy be terrified by men whose chief ex-
plot "a tsIo7 has been 50 recently illustrated
By rstrsat from before tie missiis Of an IN
srsnsd Baltimore mob.