Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-10-10
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Southern names used to prspondsrats very
/ greatly in our history and tho British nswsDs-
/ peTs sstishs st themselves long ago that all The
Americans Of ability generally were rom the
/ S q hem States. Whom We had fought the
| South for SIX months, OF even year, appear
| snees seemed 70 iniicAts that It was to be the
/ ssms ia war as it had been il other msttsrs. and
| t-a Stusb asenzd 70 b c'esrly ahea1 Of rs in
! the illness tor command Of the great mass Of the
Ulcers IN is armies, IS well ss in the possession
# generals Of distinguished abilities II ,miIias
/ from E1T0pa on this single theme came bv every
stssmar- BasUrsgs.d had then battered Adder
/ son out Of Fort Sumter and won tho battle OF
/ Bal run Hs was q Soutaerner. He was con-
trastsd against Mcdowell on our side Joe
/ Johnston hsi nareuvFred himself out Of Pat
tsrsOH's reach, and came up in tims for the sams
/ baitis- lie was cOUnssied with Patterson. and
/ that was against rs. He was a S)u.herner and
l a 5ri-isns stratogjst Sydney Johnston was
/ another instance, and hs was lsud4d not for any
/ achievement Of bis Own. but upon q tradition
/ Of hrs abilities that existed 10 the old army Ia
/ those days msgrudeT, Bragg, T8iggs, Van
/ Dom, GUstsvuJ Smith. Lowell, and others Of
about the same caliber were regard ID As men of
| great promise-the best material Of the old
srmy-snt were cited as part Of the brilliant
stray Of Southern ability against which the
North mad comparatively little 30 oppose Lister
Lee, L0nqsrest, the Hills and S,oneFsH Jack
son became prominent names, aEd the cCmDaFi-
5Oa looked no better for Us.
But, now thai we are IN ths third year Of the
wgS-nOW that the showy talents Of the Sluth-
ern first rates have haan fairly tried against pre-
vi0usiy Uuka9Tn Northern men-ws have all
reasons TO look upon the comparison Of achieve
mentr with pride in our own man ; and this
comparison should settle forever the miserable
notion that there Is s0ms peculiarly in Southern
institutions OF education, tEst produces better
men and better minds than grow in our f ee
NtT'barn sir Grant, 2 sacrzus, Meade Ne
@ ian, Gilmore. B3uks-thess are our men
aud these " Il enable Us to draw not only a good
contrast for the North against the South, bot
cis0 most advantageous one iOr the North
sgeinst the world at large Grant and Rose
Grams are soldiers Of unqualified grsatnes We
| stand at present too near them to appreciate
/ thsir just proportions P3staTisV will know them
Bst;sr. Belmont Fort Henry, Shiloh and Vlcks-
/ 5urg viii speak 10 the future for one, and Cor
| 10th aud MurfreasborO' for the other. They
[ viii nssd no other praise than the staterneE eEt
that they gave ths country those victories.
Meade is sb0vs all q ready man He assumed
command of the army Of the Potomac on SIM
day night, Jane % Then that army was in
Maryland, os tie way from Edwards ferry to
Frederick. Hs hsi it al in motion on Monday
At eight A NJ with bad weather at that o.
! Wednesday Two CORPS encountered the enemy
in Pennsylvania, and on Thursday-ihs fourth
Day OF his c0mmsnd-hs had his whole srmy
coEceutrstsd and fought the second of the Cis5-
Jyshurg battles, and on the next dsy, the third
with at least twenty thousand less men lhan the
enemy had. Ia those two days he changed the
whole complexion Of this great contest. and his
victory will be ranked IS one OF the decisive
ones in the worlds history.
A1Ciellsn's bold march TO Antietam and his
concentration there, form another Of the in
stances IN which our generals hsva taken the
lultiatIvp, aud his victory vas net less i1lpo--
tant than that Of Gen Meade. Banks retreat
from Winchester, bis defeat OF StolewslI Jack
son at Cedar mountain, and his late campaign
N Louisiana, With tho capture Of Port HUDSON.
establish his reputation and place it very high
Gilmore ls 50 the commencement of bis career
aud his greatness IS slTeady s5 clearly marked
as was that OF Napoleon Bonararte after the
siege Of ToUlOn; and, By comnsrisoa with what
Gilc-ore has already dOas ct Charleston. what
Napoleon did at TOulOn was child's play. Here
We have N two years Development Of military
ability egu1l 20 what appears in two hundred IN
Europe. Esgisnd, out Of her great rebellion y
goi fo- hsr history one great soldier Gustsvus,
Chariss, Frederick, fureHne Marlborough
P.Ince Eugeue-esch Of these is the one great
soldier OF his nation and his tiue. Ard in the
same period Lbstit takes 70 develop one in En-
rope we develop six. And against these six
Fhst men can he named to sustain the eOmpaFi-
sJn for the South There is no one bat Lee
All others now slive-Jo ohnst0n, BeauTegard
IS sgg, Psm5ersOn-have been proved 70 be I
miserable msdiOcrities The onlY man with 4
whom the Southern AdminisiTAtion dare entrust I
a great sTmY for active operations is Lee, and he
vss fairly beaten out OF Western Virginia By I
2 lsserans, was beaten st Aniistsm By McClsI- [
AN, and beaten terribly at Gsttysburg By Mssde; 4
has been beaten by three Of the six. aud he 4
hrsM .uNn
much for the present comparison Of mililarv /
abiiitv.