Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-12-15
FORRwAnNsD. PoRRARweD

There is much food for reflection in the fol
lowing article which we clip from the Richmond
Examiner Of the Ssh inst There can be no
doubt but that the enemy are concentrating the
greater portion of their energies for the occupa-
ton of the Mississippi Valley during the winter
and spriug. Having this in tHsir possession,
the ConfsdeFaey will be rent IL twain, and it
well behOOye' both tho government and the
people to look the danger in the face and to pre-.
pare for it. The EraH.iper says:
Although the Southern States have little rea
son to be afraid of aHght the enen1g can do to
their detriment ct the present moment, or during
the two months to come, they should not forget
that prepaTstions have been made, tnd are stilI
making, for their subjugation on q far greater
scale than ever before. The United States is
about to put forth al effort of invasion far OK
ceedng any we have yet resisted Burnsids's
advance upon Fredericksburg, like HoClelan's
reviews at Centergille last winter, Is only tub
thrown out to amuSe the popular whale To.
ward the close of this winter the most gigantic
army ever seen in modem times will bs actually
ready to advance upon u.s. Whatever may be
the fate of the Burnside expedition whatever
changes may occur in the political relations Of
the Union, and whatever may Be the CONNER
cial and financial disturbances, nothing now can
prevent that army from beng set upon Us and
that advance actually occurring.
From the beginning Of this war The forces of
the Confederacy have been mansgad, more or
less, in accord with the supposition hat the war
woald virtually end in sixty days more. Exper
dienis for the moment, without foresight for the
future, have once eT twice nearly ruiaed the
Southern Confederaey; and, on this occasion
It's organization will be most probably DESTROYED.
unless effectual provision is mede at once
against the great danger which approaches with
the slow but sure tread of irresistib.e fate.
We have perhaps two months OF 5ioeurisy and
opportunity still left fOF preparation. The ex-
istence OF this Conlsderacy depends entirely
upon the condition of tho Southern army at the
end of those two months IF at tho end of that
time, the men already enlisted are, il large part
rambling about in a state Of semi-desertion. or
at their homes on suueptitious furloIgh, or scat
tered in detschments no one knows where, as
was actually the case last winters if the vaean-
cies occasioned by the battles and rapid marches
of this summer and fall are not fully made up
by new recruits; and moro than al, if ths army
Is not rendered much larger than it ever was
before, by the operation Of the last CONSUMPTION
laws then our salvation will be ,lotaiDsi less
than miracle Of Gods glaoe, II
Not day o. this interval that now passes is
aot more important than any battle which has
yes been fought Every day of this interval
listlessly occupied in listening to news and
speeuisting OF the duration Of tha war is not
less to be deplored than aay deiest yet suffered
by the southern armies. Now is the time for
the Confederate authority to mske its greatest
exertons. This is the season when the new
regiments must come forward williDa o. un-
willing; when the military organizations must
be perfected and all bt.fies az tFOops 0n.rdin n
immataIiai points be called Iogetber and con-
solidated in massos capable Of breaking the I'M
petas of the avalanche which will rush upon
the South at the close of the present winter
The conscription law has yet opersted but
partially on tho Southern country. In Virginia
and in the CsTolinas il h9s bssn enforced, but
nowhere else. Even these States have not yet
given all theif men, for its execution has been
attempted with Sc little Of Judgment and dex-
teIity that its subjects haVs been ia many
places both very willing ano perfectly sble to