Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-03-13
A Startling and Eloquent Appeal.

If there are any in the South who have not vet walked mp to the magnitude of the struggle in which VIC are engaged, and to the danger which surrounds us on every side, let them persue and ponder well the following stirring appeal from one of eorga $ aged sons.
 "The hour has come for manly deeds,
 And not fer pulling words. "
 On every side the enemy is pressing our soil with hostile footsteps; he comes with overwhelming forces, " ih unsheathed sword, glstenng bayoncts, formidable batteries and all the modern applican- ces O. war-he ''comes with poverty ji his purse. lust in his evc and hell in his soul" to conquer and subucate tho people of the South. Bearing this in mind, it behoovcs every man to rally to the standard of his endangered country, and, with such arms a he may be able to obtain, aid i'll driving the invader from our borders. Short, sharp and de- cisive'' must be the contest, fl every man will do his duty:
 Correspondence ofthe Macon Ga, Telegraph.
 An old man over sixty years of age has right and therefore asks the privilege, ot few words Oi admonition to his countpmen. It is no evidence of isdom or bravery to disregard threatening danger. Solomon says and history proves !" wise man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself, but 
 nation of the South to-day! With a war on her hands of more gigantic proportions than tho world ever heretofore witnessed-With a foe more reient less than the sayagcs of the wilderness the wild beasts of the deSert-wth resources unlimited, and an army of seven hundred thousand men, and pablo of doubling it in three months and uncon- trollcd command of the sea While the South, wN an army of half the size and no navy, faces this giant with an unblenching front! 'Tis brave ly done Generous hearts throughout the world would shrek and mourn to see her perish. But who in the South would not prefer to perish than to live and have his children live and crouch beneath the vulgar despot's scOln and stripes as subjugated vassas, Shall she do either-shall she perish or submit! All but tories shout no! never. We'll my friends, let 1s see if there is not danger ahead-let us not, like the ostiich, hide our heads in the sand and fancy danger will not overtake Us because cannot see it. Let us re- trace the way we have come for the last eight months, and look down the vista of the future. Let Us recall our bunders and successes, that they may serve as mementOes for the time to c0me- The first great blunder was in putting any faith at the beginning in the val gar tvrants " ashington. 1hev me1nI hOtpln5 butiDloody wal vi nile prc.cnd ing peace and only lied to gain time and pre- cnt our getting ready while the ports were open.
 The next great blunder vas that we neglected to seize Arlington Heights and Alexandria and hold them every hazard, and destroy the bridges over the Potomac.
 The next blundcr was in not throwing an army into Maryland after the battle of Bull Run, fer to my certain knowledge they had not arms for half their infantry, and were not halfas well supplied with heavy ordnance as we were.
 The next fatal blunder was iii not building and equippng light, yet strong gunboats, for Ill our navigabc rivers and ocean inlets. live were uR- able to cope with them on the ocean, 1t is no req son why we should permit them to dominate jp our own waters.
 The next bIunder was in building forts anywhere within the reach ot the cneiuy's shells, not thor oughly bomb proof. This blunder has proved doubly criminal, inasmuch as 1t has caused the loss of vast amount of property and many brave men.
 The next fatal bunder, amounting to gross de fusion. is in under rating the prowess of our enemy This delusion must cease we are ruined. His tory ought to correct it.. With all ntel gent men Cromwells soldiers ill England, the Indian war, and the French of I755, and the revolution ot l176, and the War of 1872, in America, are some proof that the Puritan stock are not towards
 At the beginning of the wal there more than one halfof the northern people opposed to it. They all felt exceedingly hurt at the degradation of their flag at Fort Sumter, but they laid the chief blame on South Carolina, and nearly all the i5,00O who volunteered at the first call of Lincoln, ralli ed to the defence of their Capital, with no inten- tion to invade the South, and there was q feeling universal in the army opposed to aggressive war,
  showed itself in nearly every regiment It has yet to be proved which side has been the most injured by shat battle, so eonessedly glorious to the south ern army It has engendered fatally erroneous est innate of the power of our enemy, on our side, and at the same time fixed feeling iii the northern heart that the great disgrace to their arms must be wiped out at whatever cost of life or treasure. 1T Added to that, the whole northern mind has be- come thoroughly embittered against the South, amounting to universal hatred and malice, from reading the repubished decamatory articles from the southern press, denouncing them nation of uuprncipled potroons and towards.
 So much for the past-nOw what of the future? /? Let ns look around and what do we sec. This thoroughly hostile people of %, ,000,0O0, united as one man for our suJHgation CT utter eytsrmuaton with capacity to arm the whole male population in the best manner known to military science, with their armies occupying and entrencied upon three sides of territory, with every prospect of closing up the fourth, and penetrating in dead of winter with impuniy three hundred miles into the interior of Tennessee. plundering the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama five hundred miles from the sea. and outaanking all armes, with imminent danger that Burnside, from Aibermailc Sound, and Thomas in East Tennessee, will shortly close up all railroad communication with our armies in Virginia
 This being s0 are the people to be told we know nothing about military affairs, and therefore we must keep silence? If the wolf is seen in the sheenfod must the farmer hold his peace becanse he nevsr served Is shepherd, and must not cry wolf, lest tue vol h0ar him admit the enemy cannot march armies through the interior until spring, but after that with 0ur present force what is to step them They can turn all our fortihca tions and outlank all our armies. Are we not justified then, in saying arc in great danger Iii what does it consist Not so much in the powcr of the enemy as in the apathy and lack of pat,iot ism in the southern people,
 What patriot has net been shocked and alarmed when surveying the country, and seeing money making and speculation wholly absorbing the popu- lar mind, while lIanniba's Carthegenians are laundering ut tue gates of Romc- kuow you not, srs, of how little worth in few short months will be your spcculations, your stocks, your slaves, your plantations, your buildings, your homes and your firesdcs, if the ruthless invader is not speed ly driven back Can it be done No thousand times, no, as you are going on, even if the Yankees were towards. What have we witnessed in this city this, wiuter7 After sending off the Jackson artillery With horses which the buzzards set up claim, and which Falstaff would have re- jected from his regment,E.we have lately seen q very capable officer trying for weeks to make up an artillery company, and calling in vain for horses