Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-07-05
BEGINNING Of the End-Day Breaking
pa ahe Southern G~Oufederacy.

TheB Beginning Of the End-Day Breaking
on abe Southern GOnlederacy.
From the Savannah Republican,
The news which we publish FROM the battle
field in Virginia is most unsatisfactory as re-
CARDS details, yet there is enough 10 make the
heart Of every Southern patriot leap with Joy.
Our long night of revolution is approaching q
close, and the day-star Of independence Is shoot
ing its rays above the political horizon. After
nearly a years delay, the two great armies Of
the beligerents have met in deadly strile-h0w
deadly and terrific no one can yet tell, but q
tale of woe is in reserve for both the parties to
the eonfiet. We almost shHdder in the antiei-
patton Of the long and bloody roll of patriot
martyrs, that is soon to carry sorrow and vail
ing to so many hearthstones Of the South. Yet,
they have nobly persisted. They have offered
their life-blood on the sacred altar Of their ceun-
try, and its smoke viii ascend as incense to
heaven, to bring down blessings upon the suf-
feriDg nation, and freedom, and comfort, we
hSst, to the loved ones thoy have left behind.
TIE particulars Of the three days fight seem
not TO have reached even the papers of Rich
moud, published but a few miles from the scene
of action and within sound Of the guns Enough
Is known, however, to ASSURE us OF a splendid
victory. the greatest Of the war II not Of the age,
tor the Confederate arms. The great "Napo-
leon Of the enemy, who, with his two hundred
thousand invaders. WAS to drive us TO the wall"
and s'reyel in the capital of the COnfederates,'
has been driven back for miles in the rear of his
intrenehments, nearly all his batteries taken,
many thousands of prisoners captured, his COM
municatiOns by railroad and telegraph cut of,
and his entire army surrounded as if with a wall
of fire. The anaconda has been hemmed in,
and according to our understanding of the
ground and the situation Of the armies, there is
no way of escape. To fight through We're i'm
possible, to contest the ground to humiliation is
a thing not laid down in the books Of Yankee
warfare, and if it be, it has not found its way to
tbeir hearts. An humble submissionan and eapitu-
lation of the entire remaining hosts Of the enemy
appear to be the only alternative.
Taking it for granted that our victory is COM
plete, what next This question is almost as
important as the victory itself. In heavens
name let us not solve it in the ignorant, bung-
ling way we have settled all such propositions
heretofore. Let us make the victory worth some
thing, and not tTife its fruits way in vain
anticipatiOns of results never TO be realized
Let us follow it up, boldly and with a vigor that
shall strike terror to the hearts of the-enemy.
country, not ours, should be the theater for
e~nacting the remainder of this bloody drama
We have an army that can march to Boston, and
we would dictate terms Of peace from Bunker
Hill. McClellan's army defeated, captured and
cemorslized, we shall have ample reserves in
Virginia and the West to manage the rest Of the
Yankee army. Thu tables will then be turned,
aud " SU|BJUGATI0N " should be our word, as it
has been the motto of our cruel invaders. We
would reduce them to the Confederate yoke-not
to make them a part of ourselves, or even to gov
ern them, for they are unfit for honorable associ-
atoms or free government, but to punish them
for their crimes, and enjoy the privilege of set
ting them once more at liberty to work out their
own destruction. This they will do full early
when left to themselves. With the secession of
the South the great balanee-wheel Of the old re-
public was lost; their capacity for selfgoVern-
ment came to an end.
Unfortunately for us, we think, along with
this signal victory for our arms, comes news of
a probable hostile Intervention of France and
England for the purpose Of closing the war.
We hope it is untrue. We have managed the
Yankees very well thus far of ourselves, and
our prospect is even more promising fer the lU-
ture. We prefer TO "Work out our own saliva
ton even though it be done with fear and
trembling" and through much 'tribulation."
We had no friends in our adversely, when wind
and tide were both setting strong against US,
and we prefer to decline them now, when the
storm is passing ava and our bark floating
glOTiously into her destined port. In any event
we protest against any foreigners setting his
foot on Confederate shores with a hostile intent,
even in our favor. The English and French
fleets may do what they please on the high seas
and st the mouths of our rivers, for there they
have a quarrel of their own with the ships of
Lincoln, and we shall rejoice at every success,
on land it is cur fight, and we insist On tug
giDg it out alone to the entire satisfaction of
ourselves and the common foe. Let England
and France raise tho blockade-or SINK It, which
would be better-briDg US their wares aud their
merchandise which we need, and take back cur
cotton. rice and tobacco, which they need do
this and the uses we have for them viii have
been accomplished.