Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-01-05
AnO,her EichmOnd Letter ir, sho LondOn

The London Times Of December Ist, publishes an
other interesting loter om s special correspondent in
Richmond. We make The following extracts:
In the annals Of civilized warfare such harmony Ia
support Of war has never been approached The
women never failing source of wonder and admi-
ration 70 the stranger, and next TO the in
esness are the clergy and especially these Of the
Romish faith. lt is absurd TO talk OF such word as
esrgesness being applicable 10 the eoored but 10
the fullest extent OF their powers, detestaton Of the
Yankees is expressed by the negroes
In former letter I on the North expressed the
opinion that Mr Davis was the ebest living American
that IMPRESSION is than conf med by intercourse
with HIN. The President is Of those calm, nrm,
undem9nstrstive inclinng reteence, but if in
terested, easily led to animated conversation who
bei0 type which, strange to ssy 10 abound
in the SOUTH snd IS variance with the imputed ini
pulsivensss Of these children Of he
In many interviews with Northern men Of mark, it
has never been my fortune to encounter whose mind
made in the mould with that Of bis fellows,
who had not Travelled alone the same nac2daz-d road
Of learning along which, though pursuing TO different
lengths the twenty millions of the North undeviatnglY
advance. interview with President Davis reveals
you American with striking originality, whose miE4
has made its road il j9urneyed who has thought
fully prohtsd By his periences, and got beyond
the set phrases and the primers which crcuscribe vgor
and reach # thought Each word is slow, weghty, aud
luscious the countenance and voice agreeable and
vincnE the mouth Of the trmest that set in
mortal head he President looks spare and worn but
speaks cheerfuly of his heath. There is nothing TO
justify the repeated allegations Of Northern papers that
be is physically at his last gasp.
A month in the C0nfederary hHs taught me what
rene dous power, beyond the unanimous resistance of
the inhabitants the North is conendug against, in the
dimensions Of the il is striving to Eubdue
have but hitherto grazed the edg Of the great State Of
Virginia but n de do thi dev after day has been
spent in the saddle hu0dreds mics have beenridden
and notion ot the oiculty OF advancing an army has
been gained from the experience Of single horssnan
seeking food and shelter for his horse and himself
From Geseral Lees advanced pogs four days bree in
the saddle and the rsroad) required foe the
Journey Richmond, though the distance is less than
two hundred niles. But the rocky roads Of the Blue
Ff-H~ .sH1a Is-r sHr~
journey As for food and forage, il is almost difficult
10 p ocure as in Central Africa.
The confidence generally entertsned here, that Il
Gen Mcclellan shoIld advance it viii be his ruin
is based upon the TACT that such army that
nded by Gen. Lee has ever been in the field 70
oppose him since the birth Of the COnfedeFacy When
viii be aghast at the disparity of forces with which
battle after battle has been by Southern generals,
and especially by Gen. jackson. The best eOmmen-
ary upon the Maryland campaign is found in the two
facts that Harper's Ferry with 1900 men and
told number Of guns ana abundant munitions Of war,
fell almost without coElns lie INTO the hdAds OF the
al ants and that weeks have this day elapsed
the battle Of Shsrpsburg without auy serious at
tempt being made by Gen. Mcclellan to provoke an
Its hard to expect that State whes ike virginia
has borne the heat and burden Of the which has
laid bare her bosom TO She miter and submit to sacr
fees hardly paralleled On earth, should look with
patience 1pun the lukews zeal of other rich and POW
erful States and accept their lip service equal to
hearts blood In the annals OF the Od Dominion there
Will loftier page than that which tells how month
after month the war which established the ndepend-
en-. g of the South fought her willing soil how
Lee, and jackson, ana stuart, and hundred Others,
were among her chosen sos and how, upon every bat
tie field rise of the best blood Of Virginia freely
shed rather fb abandon the title Of inde pendenee
which finds It's expression in her fercs motto Of SIC
SENPER TYRANNIs."
In this respect there need be little au1iety entertained
in Europe about the pompous proclamation in which
President Lincoln announces that after the first Of jan
nary next all slaves the States then In rebellion will
be free From the very first dawn Of this thai
proclamation has been practically enforced There
mains power 20 enforce il in January 1868, which
was not invoked in January, 1861
1t Is remarked, after the experience Of eighteen
months warfare that the smOothbOre rife is generally
preferred by the Southern soldiers to the Enfield
Springfield The Confederates do believe in long
shots and seldom fire until within two hundred yards Of
the enemy At this distance the constant tendency Of
the rihed musket is to throw its bali high Il is
asserted that the bafte around this town Of the
musket balls fired by the COnfederates indicate aver
age hight OF from three feet above the ground
six TO nine feet. There not ques ion that a vast
iory Of the Federal bullets 60 high above their oppo
neut's heads.
ismost creditabe to the Confederacy to remark how
under all the pressure Of their eircumstanees public
liberty has never been sacrificed the habeas corpus
never suspended AS an instance may mention that
there two journals published daily in this town.
(which anmsdvert upon the President and his Cabin et
and upon the governor of Virginia in ianguF ge which
could scarcely be surpassed by the New York HsTad It
has been held better to pat with the inconvenience w
their strcturts aud with the apparent manifestations Of
disseusions thus exhibited 70 the North than sup
press interfere with the freedom Of the press
one effect Of this toeFenees OBJ erved in the fact that
nearyal the quotations copied into Northern papers
from the Richmond press extracted from these tVo
Journals ana the appearance of disseDslon which has
real existence in thus delusvely presented to North
ern eyes.