Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-07-04
whnt Are You Figh,ing FOR 2

This question is brought home to every heart,
and emblazoned before every eye, in its ~elearest
colors, by the Rev. DR.. Lord, of Vieksburg. He
says
=" Southern chiYsry, in its most vital point,
the honor Of our women, is now upon trial. The
lists are open for God and your ladies, knights,
do your devoir.''
In a discourse Of stirring e~loquence, delivered
in Yicksburg on the 25th ultimo, DR.. Lord sp-
pesled in manly terms to the MEN of the country
to wipe out the foul insult offered to the ladies Of
New Orleans. Wehavenot the space to publish
bis entire address, but we cannot refrain from
transferring to our columns the following clos
ing paragraphs:
What motives, then, my countrymen, are
wanting to make Us the bravest Of soldiers and
most indexible of patriots? Our interests and
our manly honor were in the cause before the
honor Of our women is now in it. God-whom
in the midst of victories and Teyerses, we have
alike appealed to show and defend the right, has
so far answered our petition as to put US still
more evidently in the right, and our enemy still
more h~agrantly in the wrong. With the mem
DRY of this last great wrong and insult burning
in your minds, you viii 90 into the battle Of
N~ickSburg. With "guns to the right of US,
guns to the left of US = with defenses construct
ed by the highest science-with thousands of
I BA6HS a nAA4 AlaAy haAAG ~ 0DAul4 Jul a.
most inaccessible land approaches, we nave here
an opportunity to strike a.blow which will make
the dark eyes of Southern women fash with
other emotions than those whose harmless light
ming struck the guilty soul Of the temporary
tyrant Of New Orleans. Their eyes viii fash
with pride and Joy, to hear that their honor has
been vindicated upon the hills Of Vieks-
burg Fy their WI brave citizens fighting with
ours in the same holy cause-and standing side
by side upon the rock that turned back TIE in
vssion which has rolled up the Mississippi like a
tide from the ocean.
yafiAnd:let US not forget, upon this solemn oc-
cssiOn, that Almighty Being who planted in our
hearts the just sentiment Of Indignation and
| sense of wrong which, in the end, viii bring to
aid US. His irresistible power.
."He has called himself the God Of battles.
He is the only giver OF victory andif He some
times gives the victory to our enemies, it does
not follow that He will give them the ultimate
victory. He permittedsIsraeEto be three times
beaten and repulSed in the great quarrel to which
our text relates, AID yet the warlike tribe of
Benjamin, the YiOlatOr Of ~womanly dignity and
the rights Of humanity was at last overthrOwn
in that Woman's quarrel with "a mighty slaugh-
ter.
He has taught us in this very narrative that
in the vindicatiOn of our honor, no sacrifice is
too costly, no peril too great to be incurred.
But here our honor snd interests are united
and every apparent loss that does not involve
loss of honor, is q real gain for it makes the
distance between US and our former eountrymen
and present enemies greater. What is property
in such a war as this
We are ike a ship upon the leeshore, that
msst show all her sail and venture al he spas,
though it should blow a gale Of wind or like
the same ship in a storm, when, to avoid foun-
dering, she has to throw her loading overheard.
1t is hard, no doubt, to see the precious bales
and boxes sink into the "yesty waves that
swallow navigation up - But it is better than
that the ship shouldbe swallowed up. Let US save
the ship, and she may yet bear other cargoes Of
richer merchandise uponthe bosom OF a smoother
sea.
May Heaven grant it to our efforts, our sacri-
fees, cur prayers in His own good time.