Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-05-01

WHAT WILL THEY TRY MKT.
1t is very difficult says the Augusta cOnsi
nationalist, for the Yankees to comprehend how
it is and why it is, that their eighteen millions
of Anglo Americans, with all the appliances O.
war in abundance, and with an untold amount
Of means of oil kinds, have net been able tC
conquer our Eve OF six millions of the same race
and linesge, while at the ssme time We keep
10 subjecsion three or four millions of bOndsmen
at home, whom they have believed An element
of weakness with Us, and hoped to have soon
became an element of destruction, also. They
can't understand the thing at all, and they
don't Jet really believe that the job they have
undertaken is an impossibility but they are
learning rapidly, and under the tutelags of
Generals LONGsTREET, JOHNSTON and BEAU
REGARD. it is q fair presumption that they viii
soon be convinced that they cannot beat us, or
else they have thicker skulls than we think
Forgetting that though we came originally
from the same great family, yet it was from a
different branch that the habits Of three gen.
erations have strengthened and confirmed that
difference; that universally where freemen and
slaves live in the same community there the
freemsn attains his very highest and nOblest de-
velopmsnt; and, finally, forgetting that they
fought for conquest, while we fought for honor,
and liberty, and home, the Yankees advanced
exultngly and confidently to try the effect Of
mere brute force of numbers. BEAUREGARD
and JOHNSTON received them with raw levies
on tho plains of Manassas, and they were igno-
miuieusly routed. It was stunning, stsgger-
ing blow, but not being followed up, the Yam
KEGS by degrees recovered from its effects, he'd
harder than usual, and half concluded that there
must be some mistake about it-that surely
they could whip US, but that there was some
defect in their management. Aud so, with per-
verse foolhardiness, they have continued tVen-
ty.one months longer the great experiment. of
numbers, not yet satisfied that they can never
succeed.
From very early period in the war, not to
lesve any of their boasted capacities untried, the
enemy, in addition TO land forces, organized to
attack Us by water. They thought that on
water surely they could ovsrpower US, for we
had no gunbosts, could not build them, nor
fight them. We certainly were very i'll prepared
in this regard, but We have managed at all
events to keep even with the inventive Yam
kee nation. Even our " horse marines cap
fuTe their gunboats, and the Confederate sol
diers now regard feet of guabosts with 10
more uneasiness than they do land army of
regular bus bellies
1, I,-,o
an iron plated monster of the deep TO contend
against our forts, and SO Ericsson, Swede,
the inventor Of the csloric engine, produced
them Monitor, clad in mail, with revolving
turret, impregnsple and invulRerable, they
would believe With our slender resources we
built Merimac turtle ram, that carried conster-
nation to the enemy in Hampton roads, sunk
their f1e frigstes, thumped the Monitor almost |
to pieces, and produced a great excitement
througout all naval circles After weary months, |
and at immense cost, they got together a Aeet of
tuHeted monitors, tried one of them for eight |
hours sgsinst our sand fort, Hc Allister, without
avail, and, faally, steamed over Charleston bar
10 crush the nest Of the rebellion" Two hours |
fighting satisfied their craving stomschs; their /
finest plated Levisthan went down, not beyond |
hope of resurrection. but beyond the capacity of |
Yankees to lie ont of the fact. " The invulner- /
ability of the monitor feet was proved, they
Charleston still stands defiant and in
vincible, We oppose blood and rerve to their
numbers, skill and machanism-blood and
nerve are the winners. What will they try
next Their day of grace is too short to enable
hem 10 iron plate each indiUidHal soldier, and
sven that would fail They can only gnash
their teeth and make mouths ct Us now. As
warlke people, the universal Yankee nation is
about played out" and the sooner they take
10 their yardsticks sgain the better for them.