Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-07-03
9aiIg appeal.

The Effect of the war ON sew York
Reaction OF Public sentiment;
etc.
A correspondent, who is native Of New
York city. writing from that place to the
Baltimore Exchange gives the following
facts:
There is much Isbored effort made by our
editors to conceal the truth as to very many
things connected With this destructive civil
war. They sndesvoT TO undeTTste and under
es.irsate the resources power and vSior Of the
0rebels.' to o~veTTsts the enthusiasm, resources
and pogser OF the Eortb: and plaster over the
biansegs OF the administration; 70 glOrify Gen.
Bnbsdil F. Butler, and explain aWaY bis dis
astrous defeat at Great Bethel; to prove that
the government has not blusdered and lost
prestige in almost every military movement
since tbe war begun; to prove that this war
viii inevitably result in "cTushing the rebel
lion,' Rnd restoring the union, ETC., etc, etc.
Now, without Attempting 20 show the alb
surdity Of their Arguments, I will take The lib
eTsy to infor5a you hat only three m-nths Of
var has suEced 10 Ut erlY PROSTATE business
here. aud - disgust thousands who, a few
weeks AGO. were enthusiastically In fsvcr Of
subduiag the "rebeis." | expected such a
change Of feeling, but not so soon. ] did not
so soon expect to hear men ~cruubiing against
the war. who, eight weeks ago. yrere clamcT-
Gus for m~obbing and lynching all Who v~enturcd
20 question Rgr. Lincoln's policy. But, never
theless, Is is true that many Of such are grum-
bling quite EuGi5-y. and looking very much
"doHn in the moath.0 TIE Daily Negs speaks
ont agsinst the war with inpu0itv. So, also,
DOES tie Day Book. afd even the staid and 30
Der Journal Of Commerce Is nov ranked among
secession sRj tTeas1naoie journals bv the Tn
base, Tine and Herald. These paaets would
not sl speak so plainly against the war IL
10 It. They but reflect the sentiments q q
large Bumber Of eur best citizens, and he M d
Der Of this sort os thinkers is rapidly increas-
ing.
As 70 The effect Of the war unoa trade and
business here, already manifesto IS sjmnlv
terrific. The crash Of ~ vas rot ga circum-
s'ance such an array of ITO let" sud
Fer ssle" plscsEds we're never before seen,
either IN this or any other city on the CONT
neBt. There are az leas: five hundred Of these
on Broadway alone, and ms1v OF them are on
first class stores and w1cle blocks Of stores,
waile on or streets, in the bus ness quarters
OF the city and in the dwelling part Of it
even in the most fashionable and pelatisl re
~ejons-thess "ecmmeTc.sl epitaphs0 [ss the
Ness terms taem) stare you in the face from
every third door post. The wholesale part CT
the city is almost Is quiet rs g country church
yard. and come modern Gray might sit him
doEu there, up4a = deserted door stem, and frd
mental material for An "Elzgy0 more mourn
ful than ven that touching composition with
which the world is so familiar Desolatioa
Teieas where, a few months since, thousands
Of men were busy IS bees, and cheerful a.
high hopes Of prosperity could make them.
A few weeks ago. whenever 4 regiment
marched along Broadway, the air was rent
with desfsninE cheers; no~, when = regiment
passes, the crowd look thOughtfully on in
silence, IL not 10 sadness and sorrow. A great
change has come over our people, and the end
is not vet. Their faith in the success OF bis
war, Istalz so high and full, Is evidently failing
fast. They are beginning seTjcu " TO doubt
the wisdon II 3 policy which has rendered
secession 50 much more extended and important
than it would have been under a peace policy,
and which is loading cur PEOPLE with an eRcr-
mnus dedt, Destroying their present business,
and ~ n tho prospect # future prosperity, and
inPeriling the lives Of SO many thousands Of
our people.
They are beginning to believe that there will
be 2 Southern Confater2cy IN spite OF Tie war,
and ? much larger and more powerful confed-
eracT than there would have been had the
original seven States been allowed to go In
peace; and that the bavsnet is not exactly the
thing 70 induce southern merchants to trsde
again with northern cities. Here is exactly
where The shoe pinchss. Eight or nine weeks
ago, when TIE tremendous Union square var
meeting was held, the merchants here. who
participates so largely in the proceedings Of
thai meeting, evidently believed that by srous-
i8E the whole Nor-h against secession, they
would Pat it down in thirty days, res ore the
union. and Te-estahlish commercial relations
with The Soulful But they are changing their
opinions on this poin- with alarm Ing rspidi'Y.
That immense nee ing vas chiefly the result
OF a mercantile motive; but i has proved, in
a commercial as well as a political roin5 Of
view, A most sgUegious bluRder, and our mer-
chants are fest becoming aware Of this pain
fui tset This city Is permanently set back
az least 80 Der cent, and the sane nav be s7id
Of az our commercial and manufacturing
cities in the North. This war is hath frltrLaG-
dal sad B%ui~id8i, 80 raT as the North is con-
eerned.