Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-06-04

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ME- DEsPERANDUM.
Ths present calls for no despOnding tones
bat for energetic and vigorous seten- The
sxigsnciss Of the times while it demands OuI
serious attention, need not sxcits in cur besons
a pazticls of fear. The armies Of LEE and
JoBNsrOs were never in better condition, OF
more enthusiastic and determined In theiT de-
fsnss of the South
LEsCOLs Is said 10 have stosd appalled, when
GRANT unfoldsd to him the magnitude Of his
plans against Richmond. The plan Das grezt
GRANT, in person, ct the head Of $50 900 men,
was 70 advance from Culpeper BUTLER, with
35 600 men, to land on the ScuthEide; SIGEL-
with l0,eO0 men, to march up The valley
Crook, with 5000, and AvERILL, with 1000, tC
strike The Virgins and Tennessee road; KAETz
with 5000, to destroy he Pssersburg and Dan.
villsi and Sheridan, with 1900, to capture
Richmond IN he midst Of the hubbub.
Ths appalling plan ought to have succeeded
at some point, and 50 it did. CROOK succeeded
In burning bridge; SHEETDAs il. destroying Z
considsrAbls qlsnsisy Of meat, and KASTz in
tsaTing mp f8w nsss Of railroad track. Bat
SIGEL failed, AVERILL failed, BUTLER failed
and GRAET himself has, SO far, failed. It re-
mains to be sssn WHISTLER GRAFT and BUTLER
united viii fail We are fully assured that they
viii; and whsn they do, what viii be LIN
COLE's sensations II be was appalled, at the
magnitude Of the Undertaking, be will be over
Whslnsd A. the msguisuds Of the failure.
SHERMAN, after sending glowing dispatches
20 the North Of the capture Of prisoners and
towns, of slsuRhtsred C0nfsdsratss, and JOHs-
sTON's refreshing sad dsmorslissd army, sud
denly halts 81 Dallas, and sndsavors TO fall
back for " position"
s1fET, ths plGas Of such " sppaIling msgni-
tuds have failed.
WssEs not given to prophecy, but we think
that before fall sets in, the invaders of North
Georgia, tRe Thunder Of whose cannon msy now
be heard in our city, will fad l. convsnient to
fal back uPon Nashville, if not, indeed, upon
L0uisvills. Ths Wilmington JOHrnaI thinks
thA. it " might look and rssd 6asr to tslk about
their being driven over ths Ohio river, but that
could only be effected by eur being aba to
throw strong force in Ksntucky, and that
force bsiug at oncs and promptly joined By the
people Of that StIss. We think It evident that,
while the main gams for life and death is being
played, no side games, however important at
other times, viii receive the slightest attention
The main advance upon Richmond and Atlanta
must be met, checked, defeated, driven back,
before any side issues can be attended TO- We
may hope to see Middle and ist Tennessee TO
hsved from YEnkse presence in time TO render
the great crops Of these fertile regions available
for the support Of the armies of the Confsd-
sracy"
Can GRANT take RichmOndi That, we think.
Is plain question, and the answer is-Eo
Bat be may stay on the Peninsula all summer.
WeIl' le! him stay. he will exhaust himself
as much, and the COnfsdsracy as Hltls thsre as
he eoaid anywhere else. That great stratsgiss,
LOUIS NAPOLEON, (sRd be is . great mani.
thought it was bsst for the allies that the war
with Russia shoold be Wsged against Ssbasso-
POI, on the extremity Of the Cars eupire.
rather than against other points supposed to be
more vital, and certainly nearest the heart and
and center Of the Russian power. The great
cost Of carrying on war .. such distance
iron he center would, be argued, the sooner
exhaust the resources Of R1ssia; and the result
showed that he was correct. A campaign
against Richmond, via the peninsula, answers
many OF these conditions. l. is far more ex-
haas,iDg in men, money, materials and morale
to the Yankees, than it is to Us. Lieut.. Gen.
U. S. GRANT, who never succeeded against
equal science OF eqaal numbsrs, fnds himself
in the same place where bis Superior in intellect,
MCCLELLAN, found himself, and opposed by
the eonsaeEOTs Of MCCLELLAN, and the science
that fOiled that really accomplished officer.