Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-07-14
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OF unless the President himself appreciates in
I'd its instant peril and all its momentOus cons
re quences the exigency Of the hour.
d. The best army which the world has ever zee
he splendidly equipped, thoroughly trained, ";
to Oficered and ably led, has been at RichmoD
y outnumbered, checked and driven back. AZ
ether year Of desperate fighting is al but inev
It table. All the energy Of the united South ha
II been put forth The army which surrounde
IS and defended their capital has been doubled 5
I reinforcements from Georgia 10 Texas while y
n have dTibbled out to our general but few bee
gardly thousands, hardly enoUgh to make a
: bis loss Of killed, wounded and sick, since b
landed az Yorktown. Al least one hundred an
seventy-hve thousand men have been led eogins
us in the six days terrible onslaught of the las
and present week.
1 Read the letters Of our correspondents, eve
witnesses of those awful encouRters-Bbo saw
+, day after day, from Wednesday morniug I'll
: Tuesday night, whole brigades and divisions q
} the rebel army hurled with utter TeckIessness 0
, human life against our decimRted and feeblsl
columns-who saw those hourly reinforced witt
, fresh troops-while our own weary battalious
hall tamlshed, bore the brunt Of each successive
charge slept upon their arms, and, worn out
with fatigue, still stood or fell dead a. their
posts, with no help for there was none to be
sent. Read how Porter, with t7yenty-saveo
thousand men, bore the long oasets of seventy
five thousand. Not seyenty-iive thousand men
have We had to oppose against their one hundred
and seventy five thousand /; and yet we the at
! tackiDg army. Not seventy-fve thousand sf-
iectlyes-and yet their young general begging
daily and EOurly for the reiuforcements which
never came. It is too pititul; and yet one little
/ month ago the Secretary Of War wsnted no more
men.
! We have been outnumbered and ovsr6orue.
1t is no use to blink the fact The Secretary
may conceal it. The press will not The gov
/ eminent has concealed it as long as It was able
II has held the ends Of the telegraph 10 lis DOS
! session It has guarded the routes 70 and from
Fortress Monroe. 1. has suppressed the dis
patches which gave it full and reliable informa-
| ton. 1t promised to communiests the truth.
good or evil, to the public whenever i was sure
/ OF the facts. It has violated its promise Its
Cabinet officers have caused fslsehoods OF state
ments which suppressed and perverted the trutb
! to be Transmitted over the country, and. with
facts IL their possession which tie people had A
right to know, they have Tegaled Us with rosy
tctiOns which every private and truthful report
from the seat OF war now at last arrived mes
senger and mail, prOnouness a deceit and a
sham.
This is no time for needless criminatiOng. We
iDculpate no one. We blame no one We uep.
ton not single name. We DO not seek 70 turn
the gathering wrath Of the people upon any
single head. But none are without blame. Does
even the President think that the people will not
feel insuled that he thought their patriotism-their
unhinching determination never less persistent
and unslterable than in the face Of an une1-
peeted disaster-a less safe reliance in the bour
of our need, less likely TO Justify his call for
three hundred thousand men, less likely to I'll
up the ranks, than a round robin signed br a
dozen governors
The governors will be heard, but our disasters
would have been trumpet tongued We tell
him plainly, and as a consistent unHaypr;nq,
friend has a right 70 tell him, that he, too, has
blundeTed. That be, too, has not felt the mag
nitude Of our crisis as the people feel it-thst |
he too, has undeIrased the courage and deter !
minatiOn Of the people who placed him in pow |
er. Had he Overruled the petty, piddling or |
ders of his War minister, and thrown open to /
the press and the people every avenue of intel |
igence by which they might get knowledge Of 4
the deeds or the disasters of our army; had he I
lst the worst be known Gt once, AID. in full !
face of our peril, had he issued upon his own
motion and by his own authority as command
erin chief of the armies of the republic, his
call for FIVE hundred thousand men, they would
have come-a half million of them-sooner
than the three hundred thousand will come, and
he would have intrenched himself in the conf
denee and affection Of the people as be never
yet has done, hOnOred and reYeTed as much and
deservedly though he BE-
Did Mr.. Lincoln fear that the people would
fail him. that he would be stronger if backed nv
the request Of the governors? The people Of
the North have nevor been found wanting.
They are and ever have been in advance Of their
rulers They will not be found wanting nov.
They have poured ont the lives Of their brothers
and sons ike Isin, and their treasure as freely
8s these have split their blood. No sacrifice
which is needful will they grudge. No cost viii
hey stint. . Though Mcclellan and his gallant .
army were to-day marching South prisoners Of
= ar, his whole army captured and all its msts-
al destroyed, the determination Of the North :
would only harden to a more desperate energy
t would only demand still more imperiously Of :
hose whom It has placed in power. wiser and I
more efficient use Of the mea~- If victory, still
core lavish use Of every ms, lent which God.
iature and the nation had placed in their pow
r-shey would only swear, with fresh a6iura-
ions, the rebellion must and shall be Put down L
Tho people have denied their servants nothing. f
hey have led; il is their rulers who have fol- c
owed. Nothing which they have done has been .
Tum6led at unless it has crippled the efficiency p
{ our army and navy. Money aud men they "
ave had to their hearts eOntent-till they them
elves pronounced the untimely wOrd-nO mora n
re needed. And now what is the result of The f
ear What has been achieved since the lsst u
of our independence Il
How have our bloed and treasure besn spentl a
We are twenty millions Of peOple-she South is e.
,ss than ten. Has the contrast shoEn7 Where a.
ave we OutnumbeTed the enemy two to one 81
:epting those advantages which our superior et
: time power gave us, OF which the direction
our great water-courses led US to, and almost Il
ompelled rs to seize, what have we TO show far a.
VI superior numbers what for our superior q
over Where have Northern sinsws and :
IOTthern endurance been made BY our leaders te
} shine pre-eminent, to win the victories which n
10 ached to winl Let Shenandoah, Shiloh. 81
tono and the Malvern Hills reply. Let all the "
nTeaped victories which, one year ago. We 2
romised ourselves to gather in the Gulf States c
efOre this summer was past make answer. y
Just or unjust, right or wrong, it i5 now in b
isputably the peoples voice that the President
lust give them new men and new measures. a,
hey demand that the very best brains TO be E
und in the nation shall be hsd for his advisers h
that those who have been tried and found st
anhng shall make way for those whose nerves W
-e strong and whose hands are steady and skill Ol
il to help him pilot the ship Of state through ci
le He'll Gsts which environs her The people a.
smand, and the press can only re-echo their le
lunder-tOnes, more eneTgstic conduct of the Ii
ar. bl
They will besr all cost and loss with willing. Of
rem with thankful hearts But they demand Z
nperiously that not one dollar, not one lie a
lsll be wasted-that what's spent and who are Ia
ain shall purchase no blunderiDg delays, no g
retched exodus from valleys fought over and
'nquered, no costly defeats. They demand en-
energy; they demand econo-
y and wisdom in our finances, an advance over 4,
le territory yet nconquered-everywher en- b,
gy and everywhere the victories which we o
now ourselves able and determined 20 win. 81
The shifting Of general here and there will in
Of satisfy the people. Nor the displacement Of T.
mere war minister. The mismanagement Of III
" finances has cost the nation more than our eI
ar expenses the incOmpetsncy and slOwness +
the head Of the Naval Department lost US pV
oTfolk, and has inconeevably delayed the on te
rgetic prosecution Of the war. The alternate 50
Unity and frenzy Of the war minister have &c