Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-07-10
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THE DOWNFALL OF FAMR.
When the North set out in The unhOly crusade
against the South, with the view Of subjugating
our people and crushing the rebellion, she did
so with a grand flourish of trumpets and q gran
eloquent display of her immense power, valor
and resources. Temporarily checked in her
onward march by the little affair at Manassas,
she nevertheless rapidly recuperated from this
reverse, and mastering her immense forces by
land, by sea and by river, she felt proud in
her might and went forth confident of an easy
triumph. The fortunes Of war, from the disas-
ter at Fishing Creek to the fall of Memphis,
seemed to smile upon her, and she was rapidly
possessed of that arrogance which is the legiti-
mate offspring of unchequered prosperity, as
well as that pride which gOeth before a fall"
Her warrior heroes beheld in Imagination the
chaplet of fame already wreathed for their
brOws, and were rapidly making material for a
gorgeous page in future history. Unlisted by
success as well as their great superiority in
numbers and all the material and appliances Of
war, their pride grew into pompOsity, and ty-
ranny, robbery and oppression marked their
pathway through the country they professedly
came to save, protect and defend. If there was
a s~cintilla of love or respect existing in the
South for the old Union, it has been ObGterated
by the 6endish conduct of these NOrtherR van
dals, who have shown themselves better fitted
for thieves than soldiers, and wh have brought
disgrace even upon the bad cause in which they
6ght.
The events of the past month, however, have
very materially changed the aspect of affairs,
and unless thssigns Of the times are deceptive,
our northern cousins are on tie verge of ruin
national, social and financial. TIE germs Of
anarchy are plainly visible in the organism of
their society, and deprived of the great conser-
vative balance wheel of the South in her legis-
Jative councils, the North is rapidly rushing
head long into the vortex of inevitable ruin and
destruction. Beaten ia battle on almost every
field, as we'll IS bankrupt both in purse and
principle, she must come out of this war with
humbled pride and degraded in the eyes of every
civilized patton on earth. She went up in a
blaze ike the rocket, she will com down like
the stick. By means of great crimes she has
carried on great projects, but the day of relribu-
ton is close at hand. If the people of the
South have lost in material wealth by the dep
relations Of her sOldiery, we have a proud sat
~isfsction in knowing that tens Of thousands of
their corrupt carcases have been made fertii-
sers of Southern soil
The warrior chiefs Of the " Grand army" as
well as the law makers and wiser heads of the
northern press, are wrangling in terms of the
the responsibility Of their late Ieversss. The
quarrel promises to become quite interesting to
all who are not engaged in or affected by it.
For ourselves, we have nothing to do with it,
and care not if it does, as we doubt not it will,
result in a Kilkenny cat fight 1t seems certain
that some body's head has to fall, and it matters
not to US whether il be that Of Lincoln, Stanton,
or Mcclellan.
We shall however look for something des-
perate to turn mp in the North within the next
few months. She is now lettering on her last
egs, calling Justify for more men and more
money, at the ssme time that her army is melt
ing away in the field and her credit going to the
dogs. While Southern soil is swallowing up
ler soldiers, Europe is swallowing up her gold.
Overburdened with taxes, her people can see
hopeful in the future, and when they
hall have awakened to a full sense of the
wrongs and injuries TO which they have been
by their bigoted and t%anstical rulers,
hen will have come a fearful day of reckoning
0 those who have stood highest in place and
and who have been chiefly instrumental
q fsrmenting and bringing on this wicked war
If s~ubjugatiOn. The unlicensed hordes of the
Worth viii turn loose upon them, and like Ac- !
sOn, they will be eaten up by their own dogs. !
'eriIy are our Northern cousins rapidly on the
owuhiU of fame.