The Evansville daily journal., 1862-01-18
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terrible straights to which the Southern
States are put, and the impatience with
which the people submit to the burdens i'm
posed on them by the leaders of the rebel
lion. A gentleman just from Memphis, has
favored US with two numbers of the Mem
phis Argus of dates of the 2nd and 9Th
inst, which exhibit the condition of things
below, in so clear light that we copy
them in full. We are informed that on the
appearance of the second article the editor
+" was waited upon aud summoned before
q committee. What was the result we have
never learned. The Argus is not often seen
North, because its truths are too unpalata-
bic to the Southern leaders to permit them
to find their way North:
lFrom the Memphis Argus, Jan. 2nd.l
Watching the Lion while the Fox
steals the Chickens.
Price is in full retreat Southwark Price
will probably continue in full retreat, for
there are several-indeed no less than three
Federal armies, each as large, better
armed and better equipped, eonverging up
on him. His past victories have been
rendered valueless. Federal forces have
been massed in Kentucky too great for a
man of Sidney Johnston's caliber to venture
| to attack, and the paralyzing of Price
| through the withdrawal of Mccullough has
rendered the overrunning of Missouri to the
Arkansas frontier an easy task to the Fed
erals. We're forced back out of Missouri
--eheck-mated in Kentucky. Chase has
obtained his moneys in Wall street.
I raJo Sg kraa IyoIo1 1a Nv,
In one word, we're hemmed iu. We've
allowed the moment of victory to pass.
We were so anxious watching the opera
tions of England, that we stand aghast on
turning our eyes homeward again to find
ourselves ten-foId worse off than we were
ere the commencement of Prices last for
ward march, and that accursedly used sensa-
tionism, the arrest of Messrs. Mason and
SlidelI. Day follows day, and in lien of
being weakened we fnd the Federal armies,
at all points, being strengthened. Almost
every article of manufacturing and domestic
necessity quadruped in price, and our
money will soon be exceeding scarce for
lack OF paper and pasteboard wherewtth TO
make it.
We pay fifteen cents a piece for sperm
. candles, and are told we ought to be glad to
get them at that. Our twelve months sol
QIeES tlule VIII SCOu De up anu We canuO'
help asking, as they do themselves, qohd
, have they been permitted or Ted to do It i:
an old and eVer-proven truism, that where
two nations are at war, that which has The
least means must find success in early ant
rapid action, for it can gain little by time
3 while the other finds in time the power t.
bring into efficient use its more varied
. means
Cabined, cribbed, confined as we were
and evidently would be, our.shortest, clear
{ est and most noble policy was to find in th'
I rapid use of our early revolutionary enthusi
asm an overmatch for the slower and les
spirited, but more enduring North. W
I, speak plainly to-day, because ere the full
a military policy of our leaders was mad
s known, we persistently opposed any cut
4 side pressure by the press upon it, w
speak plainly, because as Southern pape
y ha rinht In Snaalc and ask 10 see th
It tration of business, these domestic bereaye
n ments, and heroic sacrifices made by on
). women, as well as our men,. We ask VIII
the year has past, and we further than eve
s from recognition at home or abroad? w
Y ask why we are fifty-fold worse off thai
a when the war commenced2
We ask, why we were not told that on
ports must be opened by the foreigner els
n we could not be armed sufficiently TO d
more than remain imprisoned By the bayon
i cts of an outnumbering foe along our from
! tier, and an impossible navy along ou
Il coasts. Where shall we ask relief? Wher
:, should we ask it save in the camps on whom
= have been lavished our hearts blood, ou
a hopes, our wealth, our whole-where bu
. upon the. banks of the Potomac. When viii
we see an end of the farce there being en-
acted, at our expense
o Indirectly every mouthful we eat is tax
n ed, our babies wear taxed caps an(
shoes, our boys write on taxed paper, our
girls wear taxed calicoes, our men do a tax
ed business and hopelessly ride in a taxed
s hearSe to taxed grave, and we, forsooth
n are hurting the cause" if we dare to turn
from Messrs Mason and Slidell to look al
the country we were born and bread in
= and, having looked, we are hurting the
: cause if we dare tell what we see.
, Our cause is right, it is holy. Our suf:
fering may be Gods price of success. 6at
aoAo, seeing aohat might hare been, and k7aosO.
a0hat IS being suffered through its being an.
done. can refrain from curslng the set6stnes,
or idtocy that stopped the congueriag Beaure-
guard, that arrested the march OF Price. that
checked the gallant Johnston.
We have gazed imploringly on the lion,
! while the fox has been weaving his tolls
Our press and our people have trusted far
enough. We now ask, are we to continue
hemmed in for another six months and lack
all things, or shall our armIesson to Wash
f ington and lack nothing.
, From the Argus of the 9th
7 INJURING TIE CAUSE
; +" A knowledge ofthe disease is half the
: cure" This trueism Is as applicable to DO
? litical as to physical disease and a knowI-
edge of how the fracture came is the best
key the surgeon can have to obtain him a
mental view of the shattered bones We
measure the value of household seryitor
| by the efficiency displayed by him in the