Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-13
FIVE PROsPECT BEPORE US.


We are gratifed to witness a ~reswakening Of
both the press and the people throughout the
South to the Importance of rapid ARRANGEMENTS
as well as the necessity of self dependence and
selErelance. The sooner we cease to look for
foreign aid or European interference the better
for all concerned. Upon the valOr of our own
troops and the patriotism of our people, ener-
gized by deeds as well as words, must we alone
depend for redemption from Yankee rule and
Yankee bondage.
If the North shall hUrl down upon us the I'D
ditionsl half million of troops called for, the
South must have in the field a corresponding
force to meet them and give them a cordial vel
come with bloody hands to hospitable graves"
If there are still left in LINCOLN's dOminions
six hundred thousand hell-hOunds DESTROYS of a
final resting place beneath the soil Of the South,
let them come. Their progress toward the gull
msy be marked By desolstiOn and destruction,
but this progress win be made to them a funeral
march 70 the grave.
If cur people of all classes and in all sections
win bpt do their whole duty, we have no fears
for the future. A distinguished military chief,
saws the Atlanta Ia~teligencer, said in our hear
ing on 3 recent occasion, that " the prospects
of the Confederacy were never brighter since
the opening of the war than they are at present.
While the abolition Congress Of Lincoln was
doing as much as an army Of Confederates in
Kentucky could do to relieve that State, and
even more, by its legislation on slavery, the
Federal troops in Tennessee were falling back,
and would soon have upon their heels a force TO
harrsss, and annoy, and to capture them in their
flight. The South had only to rely upon the
strong arms and resolute hearts of her own
sons, to win her independence. TIL ough
Northern discussions did prevail, we must
place no reliance upon them, nor upon foreign
Intervention, to give strength or aid to our cause.
Upon hard blows only, bestowed upon the enc
ought we to depend, to make the revolution
a successful one, and to free ourselves from Yam
kee despotism. In substance, continues the In
teqigeacer, these were the remarks of a gallant
soldier, but they display also the wisdom Of the
SAGE. Self dependence will, we feel satisfied, re-
suit in triumph. So long as any dependence is
put on foreign Intervention, just so long will a
less vigorous effort be made by ourselves to drive
the enemy from oar soil, and none to sssail him
upon has 0ua. Experience has taught US this,
and we are glad to see evidences of its having
taught the same useful lesson to others, who are
high in authority and upon whom the conduct
Of the war mainly depends. Much less should
place any dependence upon Northern dis
sessions" These dissentions are mainly for
place and political power-the ''outs" at the
North fighting to replace the ''ins." With but
few rare exceptions, in the persons of YALAN-
DIGHAN, WOOD, PIERCE, SEYMOUR, of Con
and some halfa dozen other prominent
men, the South has no friends in the North. 1t
is almost a unit for the war-a unit to subjugate
us-a unit to make US pay its enormous indebt-
anti to enslave us-s unit to abolish
he institution Of slavery. Its recent reverses
nave only enraged it. True they have also
frightened the masses there, but the vain de-
,sndencs which they place in the POa0sr Of num-
ers and brute force, viii animate them to puT-
ne the contest, to raise new armies, and again
0 crimson Southern soil with blood. Let US
heed not Eerthera di5sousiUuS, nor pause
Or foreign Intervention; but let oHoard be the
7atchword that the enemy may feel more of the
of war than he has yet felt, and espe-
let him feel what he has not yet felt, that
Just retriJHti0n has overtaken him in his own