Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-01
RRDERAn DESIGNS FRUsTRATRD.

FEDERAL DESIGNS FRUSTRATED
The Richmond Examiner very truly remarks
that SO far IS the war has been fought, its re-
sults. in a military point Of view, are deeply hui
initiating TO the North. The war was COM
meneed by the North with the most intense ex-
presSons Of contempt for its adversary the
idea of the contest being extended beyond a lew
months was derided and spit upon in that short
time it was believed that the flag Of the Union
would aoat over the cities and towns OF the
South. and the bodies of +" traitors dangle
from the battlements of Washington.
This was the true state of feeling at the North
fifteen months ago, snd as the same journal re-
marks. it was not all afectatiOn. 1t was caleu-
lated By many people, in a spirit Of csndOr, that
a contest so unequal in the material elements OF
strength as that between the North and the
South, would be speedily determined. The
North had twenty millions Of people to break
the power Of eight millions it had a militia
force about three times as strong SIS that of the
South it had the regular army it had an i'm.
menss advantage over the South in 3 navy, the
value of which may be appreciated when it is
known that its achievements in the war have
been greater than those Of the land forces, and
that its strength, with proposed additions to its
active war vessels, is estimated to-day in the
North as equivalent to an army Of half a million
of men.
Nor did the superiority of the North end here.
While the South was cut eff from the world
By the restrictions of the blockade, without com
msrcs, with but seanty manufactures and few
Supplies on hand, the North had all the ports of
the world open 70 It's ships; It had furnaces,
foundries and workshops its manufacturing re-
sources compared with those of the South were
as five hundred to one the great marts of Eu-
rope were open to it for supplies of arms and
stores there was nothing Of material resource,
nothing of the apparatus Of conquest that was
rot within its reach.
These immense elements of superiority on
the part Of the North have not remained idle in
her hands. They have been exercised with ire
msndous energy. Within the last fifteen months
tee government at Washington has put forth
ell its power to subjugate the South it has
contracted a debt six or seven times more than
that Of the South it has called out more than
half q million soldiers; it has put Europe under
contribution to furnish it not only arms, but
soldiers to use them; 1t has left no resource
untried and omitted no condition Of success.
The result Of all this immense and boosted
superiority on the part Of the North, coupled
with the most immense exertions, is that the
South remains u~ncOnquered. The result is hu-
initiating enough to the warlike reputation of
the North. It has not been separated from its
feeble adversary by seas or mountains, but only
by a geographical line; nature has not inter
fered to protect the weak from the strong three
Grand Armies" have advanced in the Confed-
crate territory and Jet, to-day, the Yankees
hold in Virginia and Tennessee only the ground
they stand upon, and the South, in spirit, is
more inyincible than ever.
The humiliation of the North in the eyes of
warIike nations is complete. The loud and in
solent boasts with which it commenced the war
only show, with the forca of contrast, the little
that has been accomplished by a power that had
every element of superiority. over uS-but that
Of soul.