Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-18
STRENGTH OF TmE C0mBATANTs.

~COFFEvILLE, AUGUST Is, 1862.
EDITORS APPEAL: I have taken the follow
ing statistics from MitchelFs School Atlas, and,
although YOU able editorials have ef.en set
forth the same facts, while your trumpet elo-
quence stirred our hearts and girded US for the
battle, yet the view of them herein taken viii
supply perhaps a word of encouragement to the
Responding, and perhaps nerve some soldiers 10
arm for the great struggle before US. I viii
further add that in our efforts echeer up under
gloomy events and sad reverses, we have
sometimes been too sanguine, and stated our
resources at higher figures than facts would
justify. The masses were deceived, and are
now suspicious Of ell statements made to them,
and I have on this account drawn my facts
from a book in the hands of every fsmily-a
common school atlas-so that the reader can
easily rectify them. They are from the statistics
Of 1850, and a reasonable allowance can be
made for the ntergenipg decade.
My proposition is simply this We can raise
more soldiers than the United States can!
The tables above referred to show that they
had, in 1850, militia, to-Eit men between l8
and As, 100000. Il use only round numbers)
That Southern States had 600,0 600. Thus far
they have two for one; but let US go on. They
have 4,000,0 600 negroes, while we have 8, 1000. 600.
Ours are employed in agriculture, while theirs,
living for the most part in towns and cities, are
boot-blscks, shop-keepers, solutions and vaga-
bonds, ana cannot be rendered available in pro-
ducing subsistence for anGrmy. Their four mil
lion must therefore be put down as an absolute
incumbrance, and their legislation to prevent
this species Of emigration shows their own view
of it. For no State would impede an emigration
which enriched the commonwealth.
Ours, on the other hand, are the best agricul-
turists in the world, and The 100000 give by ratio
Of said tables 100000 above the age of fifteen.
Or, in other words, 100000 laborers who, in war,
are as useful, as soldiers.
There is but one othor class of citizens, lie.
those under 10 and over 40, both in the North
and South, and although they (the North) have
q majority in this class, it must be remembered
that vast numbers of them are manufacturers
and tradesmen, whose habits of life preclude
them from turning their attention to agriculture.
They therefore produce nothing from the soil,
aud trade being destroyed, are, ike the eolored
population, an incumbrauce. l will say. how
ever, that this class in the North, and the negtoes
there, do not incumber the commonwealth, but
simply support themsdUeS,-and any tolerably
well informed person viii say that l have done
them ample justice. Then how does the argu-
ment stsld2
We have soldiers between Is dS5,...-.... . 100000
Slaves, useful as soldiers. =. .,.---..., 100000
100000
The United 100000
But hear me further In war for indepen.
denee the boy of II and the man of 20 seize
their guns while ambitious governments must
depend upon their soldiery and cannot, without
a counter revolution, go beyond the legal ages.
Now we have of extra m fIiHa men........... 100000
100000
Or nearly three to one over the Yankees!
Novel, or even preposterous as this may seem,
it spproXimstes the truth and being the party
Misunderstanding in cur mountain Businesses
and behind eur rivers-I should not be sur
prised if the ratio in our favor should be six to
one. But the entire force OF the North is
now called out, and a draft is inevitable but
they will come. Yes, over one million of men
viii be precipitated, my countTymen, upon your
homes! And if you remain idle-dreaming in
the midst Of your splendid resources, that some
thing viii turn up" to avert the tOrm-w are
lost forever. Then up! my eountrymen, let us
be doing.
Ihaye seen the Yasdal, face to face, in two
pitched battles. / know THAI be is braUe and
s~aercitess. Our magnificent resources anemDloy
60 cannot resist nln- Lei every man over hf-
teen tender his services to the country. Rise to
a man, or you may be conquered though three
to one, in SEXUAL advantages and history viii
brand you and your children as eoloards
and siaces, B~EAURAIs.
REMARKABLE PETRIFAcTIoN.-TAe Panama
BnHetia tells this curious story
It will be Tecolleeted that about four years
Mrs. Kearney, wife Of the late Mr.. James
Kearney, died in this city. sHer husband, at that
time, being a merchant IN Aspinwall, had a
zinc coffin made, in which she was placed, and
q quantity of alcohol, the whole then i'm
bedded in chsrcogs in a still larger coffin, for the
purpose Of preserving her, as it was her has-
intention Of having her remains sent to
England; but shortly afterward he took sick
and died, as also his child. The body
remained IN the cemetery undistuTbed, until
, short time ago, instructions were received from
relations in England to have the body ex-
and inferred in the cathedral. On OPEN
ing the coffin it was found to be pelgfed and !
marble-ike, bat strange to say, as !
quick IS the air got TO tho body it changed to a
light copper color. y