The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-08-06
LATEST FROM THE SOUTH.

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We have received from one of our cores
pondents before Richmond, copies OF the Rich
mond Examiner and Dispatch, of Friday last,
from which We make the following extracts:
Z southsrn view of the war.
AS far as the war has been fought, its results
in military point OF view, are deeply humili-
ating to the North. The war was commenced
by the North with the most intense expression
of contempt for is adversary; the idea of the
contest being extended beyond few months
was derided and spit upon; in that short time
it was believed that the flag of the Union
would float over the cities and towns of the
South, and the bodies of traitor" dangle
from the battlements of Washington.
This was not afectation. 1t was calculated
by many people, in 3 spirit of candor, that q
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 militia
force about three times as strong as that of the
South it had the regular army it had an i'm
mense advantage over the South in 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 today, in the
! North, as equivalent to an army of half mil
| lion men.
Nor did the superiority of the North end
here. While the South was cut off from the
| world by the restrictions of the blockade,
without commerce, with but scanty manufac-
lures and few supplies on hand, the North had
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had furnaces, foundries and workshops; its
manufacturing resources compared with those
of the South were as five hundred to one; the
great marts of Europe were open to it for sup.
plies of arms and stores there was nothing o.
material resource, nothing of the apparatus o.
conquest that was not within reach.
These immense elements of superiority or
the part of the North have not remained i'd,
in her hands. They have been exerc sed with
tremendous energy. Within the last ffteer
months the Government at Washington hs
put forth all its power to suhjugate the South
| it has contracted a debt of six or seven time
more than that of the South it has called ou
more than half million soldiers; it has pu
Europe under contribution to furnish it no
only arms, but soldiers to use them IL has lef
no resource untried, and omitted no condition
of success
The result of all this immense and boaste,
superiority on the part of the North, couples
with the most immense exertions, is that tn
South remains unconquered. The result is hu
initiating enough to the warlike reputation o
the North. II has not been separated from it
feeble adversary by seas or mountains, but onl
by geographical line; nature has not inter
fered 10 protect the weak from the srroDg
three ''Grand Armies" have advanced in tn
Confederate territory; and yet, today, tn
Yankees hold in Virginia and Tennessee onl
the ground they stand upon, and the South, i
spirit, is more invincible than ever.
The humiliation of the North, in the eye
Of warlike nations, is complete. The loud an
insolent boasts with which it commenced th
war only show, with the force of contrast, tn
little that has been accomplished by powe
that had every element of superiority over I
but that of soul-Richasond Examiner.