Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-03-18
ATLANTA. ca. March u. la

! Military enthusiasm is running high at presen
throughout the cotton States, but in none, per
baps, higher than in Georgia. Tbs people d,
not, ike some Of our own in Tennessee, grow
dsspondent beneath defeat, nor panic-stricker
and chicken-hearted when they hear the re
sounding footsteps of our retresting columns
We hear no suppressed whispers in this latitude
about the probabilities Of our failure in this war
Such doubt is justly regarded as akin to tres-
son-despair Of the republic, the vilest and most
hidsous of political crimes.
The spirit of Georgia is illustrated in a single
incident, where she seeks, as it were, to snatch
from the brow OF Mississippi her wel-earned
laurels as the volunteer State Of the present rev
olution. The recent call of the President for
twelve new regiments has been responded to by
not less than tloeEty ti1o thousand men Every
man, old and young, is willing to offer his life a
sacrifice for the salvation Of the South and her
heaven-fav0red cause. Camps Of instruction
have been established at three different points is
the State-nesr Marietta, Griffin and SaYan-
nah-and troops are focking to them every day,
earless, undismsyed and undishear tened.
The ladies, too, always foremost in every age
in works of patriotic enterprise, have caught the
coniagion, and are manifesting It in a way not
less practical than laudable. In three different
cities-Sayannah, Augusta and Columbus-they
have formed themselves into as many associa-
tons, and are bending their energies towards
raising funds for the construction Of an iron
clad gunboat for each place. The gentler sex
Of Charleston have a similar preie on hand,
the original conception of which is, I believe,
due to the fair women of Mobile All honor to
these dauntless heroines, who would, if neces-
sary, I think, follow the example of the women
of Rome. and bring their earrings and brace
lets as heart-offering to the bleeding republic
notice that the Governor of South Carolina
has announced new policy for the future as
regards the course to be adopted in raising volun-
teeTs On and after the Doth Of the present
month all State troops from South Carolina are
to be raised by eonsoription. Conscripts are to
be mustered into service for the war, and no UoI-
uateers viii be received after the Doth The Off
GERS who command these troops are to be ap-
pointed BY the Governor and State council, and
not elected as in ordinary cases. This is in imi-
tation of the French policy, and its animus is
not to be mistaken It's adoption is not due to a
decline of the volunteer spirit in the Palmetto
State-far from it. We may safely presume
that its object is to strike at prevalent, if not
chronic evil of the times, and force into service
that character Of pORpIation, found everywhere,
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, who care
little about the iual result of this war, provided
they only csn escape its sacrifices and its hard
Ships, and take the tide of speculation at its
hood and be waited on TO fortune
To such a class belong these butterfly patriots,
who refuse to take Confederate Treasury notes
upon the happening of the slightest disaster to
our arms--uho stay at home and buyu tobacco,
cotton, molasses and sugar, and store them away
in deep cellars or lofty attics, to be brought out
and vended TO the enemy 50 soon as his hungry
hordes may approach in their mission Of spolia-
ton, subiugation and bloodshed-whose loyalty
in fine, IS made Of airy nothing, and, ike the
shadow upon The sun-dial, vanishes upon the sp-
pearanee Of the slightest cloud All such should
be made to fight and defend the liberty which
they, in common with others, viii some day
enjoy Il may become question with other
States, d. to when the time viii come for them to
adopt this new and decidedly Napoleonic system
OF recruiting.
The news reaches Us here, which you have,
perhaps before hand, that Buell. has issued a
proclamation at Nashville, announcing to all
refugees from the city that unless they return
within ten days their property viii be confscat-
ej upon The presumption Of their disIoyalty 10
the Lincoln government. The ediet is alleged
to be published in the columns Of the Nashville
Times, which is issued from the Office of the
Union and hmereaa.
leave for Montgomery this morning, and
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