Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-06

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EDITORS APPEAL: There is in EsOp an old ia.
BILE of Hercules and a Cartmsn. the moral of which
goes to show that those who do not help them
selves must not call on the gods for assistance
The Southern people should bear in mind to sp-
ply this, and r~ecollect not to rely upon the sid of
other powers than their own in this their strug-
gle for release from the meshes of tyranny. IN
like Hercules, they neglected in their youth to
crush the serpent which threatened destruction,
and hence now that it is seeking to iasten its
deadly folds around their entire being, they must
exert the giant strength Of the full grown
god to destroy it in its might.
In this war for independence, as our fathers
had done before us, we did, on our own respon-
sibility, shake off a government which in its cor
ruption, had become tyrsnical, odious and sub
versive of our rights, appealing to the world and
posterity for the justice of the act, and to the
common sense and calm judgement of the OPP
pressor for a proper settlement of affairs which
we Lad previously held conformity. Against our
expressed wishes, and against tie policy and in
terests of our enemy and ourselves, we were
driven for that settlement to "the last arbiter of
kings"
Exasperatsd at the loss they were about to
sustain by the South's withdrawal from the
Union, the North, Csesarlike, determined to
cross the rubicon and attempt our ~subjugation.
Thus far, single-handed and alone for over a
year, have we COPIED with the foe, and proved
ourselves, in the Cabinet and on The battle field,
not only the equals but the superiors of the
aggressors. With a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
army, with a boosted navy, all taught by mas
ters of tested ability, drilled in the school of
experience, and furnished with every supply
that an ingenious and prosperous country could
want, they promised that Southern rebels should
bite the dust in the course of a month. They
have blundered in their legislation, and their
war successes and conquests proved only as
mirages to their bewildered eyes.
In the future let US trust. as in the past, to the
patriotic hearts and stout arms of ourselves.
Should we be defeated in this wOr, misery,
poverty, degradation, slavery, will be our inev-
liable lot, as surely as the night succeeds the
day. Oar existence at the mercy of a base
despotism, our property at the disposal of his
money-loving appetites, ourselves refugees over
the earth without q home and without a country,
cur posterity a cursed and unhappy people. Be
not deceived. We speak by the light OF a little
past experience.
Yet, on the other hand, should we be success
fu', then will this country Of ours be started in
a career with prospects the most glorious and
brilliant.
Let us not be deluded into a lack Of vigilance
or the relaxation of q %tiTeIess energy by any
hope of foreign Intervention. This one thing
has done more than any other to injure and TO
retard the attainment of our end. The past Is
irrevocable, but its lessons stand as grim mont
tors for the future.
According to our idea, we have exhibited
to the world enough of civil ability and military
power to warrant the belief that we are abuE-
dainty able in every respect to maintain our
government, aud SO fxedly resolved as to shed
the last drop of life blood in the cause, ere the
heart shall send it pulsating beneath Federal
rale. In our judgment, " are clearly entitled
to recognition as a nation, from civilized gov
ernments; yet if tAey hesitate to yield us this
recognition, and to withhold what we deem a
right due Us, we must fight on for decades if it
be necessary, and in a manner worthy ourselves,
worthy the destiny which is to attend success.
We learn by history, we have learned by our
own small experience thus far that L" the race is
not always to the swift, nor the hattie to the
strong"
Doubt, dependency, discourage are unmanly
feelings and should have no place in the bosoms
of those who are enlisted to share our fate, even to
humiliation, or who desire to partake of the re-
wards and be recipients of the blessings which
the god Of battles has surely in store for a PEG
pie brave and determined, battling for their
rights and their homes.
Each hour in the year increases our means,
enlarges our capacities, experiences us in the
general management and smaller details of war,
and we must be hopeful out of our own selves
to conquer a peace" A%RTILLERisT.
VIcKsBURG, August 1, 1862.