Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-05-20
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The contsmptible subterfuges to which the
supporters of she war resort, are 1ot yet, it
would geeca, exhausted. Sill the work Of in
veation goes on, and We are supplied with all
kinds Of Yankee notions in this particular line.
FAilstsff's "men in buckTam" wers very good
in the way of fiction, but our modern story
tellers can beat them ell hollow T
It Is particularly amusing 20 resd The reports
CT skiImishes and battles in which we generally
manage to kill about ten of the Colledarates to
every Union soldier that is pus k0Fs dn eOHb0t
Considering the remarkable pTowe5e of our men,
IS compared with those in the Southern army,
we really wonder how the South still contFiveS
to hold cut, and how it hsppens that she can sup
ply The place of the millions of her soldiers that
we have managed 70 kill, wound aud capture,
sincs the commencement of the war. We can
not, certainly, that Is if We are to believe all
that IL told as, have sent to the other world less
thah million Of souls, while to our certain
knowledge enc Southern regiment hRg been an
initiated no less than dozen times.
Who, after such substantial evidences, viii
ever attempt 20 question our powers of inVen-
ton We can invent wooden nztmegs, hams
Of tho game material, and We expect to hezr thai
q AlGi-14A4fg las DcoA HlA4o .tl0 CBukl
can be literally pulYerized. We are, indeed,
great peopie-in our own estimation.
Il would be difficult to tell the number of times
that We have managed to redncs the South TO
state Of gtsTystinn. We have starved their arm.
les, we hEve starved their women and children,
and we are now engaged in starving what is
left in the Southern land ef the living. We
shall not stop to enlarge upsn the CREST advsu,
tegss 20 be derived from this manner of carry
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preheusion of tho most comnUn understanding.
FIRST, We showed test they were out of cattle;
then, We proved thai they wero short of corn,
and, fa&liy to establish the fact Con papeT) that
thsir supply of whisky had run cut, they were
y daesd to adopt csmphane as q substitute
And yet, viii it bs believed, that, through ali
this, they managed to saTvie, and to Sight with
= d0ggedness and tenacisy that was disgusting
IN the exETeme7
Now, lei Us ask, what is to be thought of such
an ine0rngible people What Is TO be though!
Of men who, when we have starved them cut,
again and sgsiD, viii, like the ghost of Banquo,
not dswn 81 our bidding Slrely these South
eTn braves are a sort Of human chameleons-
they must live upon air
But what does al this pTovei II we cannot
conquer them Eeitber by starvation OF by the
swoni, If they don't know When they are beaten,
what are We to do Here We have been three
EaRTs At war and yet some people say that
Mere is less chance cf 0TeT. throwing ths Con-
iederacy than there was at frat Was there
ever such obBsinacy seen in this world before
Was there ever such a contempt Of all known
rules of wSrfxre2 Our word tor it. jeff Davis,
Gems. Lee, BeauTegsrd, and others of their ps-
eGliar Way of thinking, are to blams for all This.
But for them we would have persuaded the
S Iufhern people, as we have persuadsd our
selves, that they were in a state of starvation
thEt the census reports, SO far as il referred TO
their products and live stock, were completely
asiray and that cur hay crop was worth more
tran all the cotton raised ia the Confsderscy.
Il il trRe that, according to the census returns
ct Virginia. The number of cattle in tae whole
State il 1850 was I02l, I32, or 81 for every 100
| persons; While in 1853 their number within the
territory, free from the incuTsions Of the Federal
forces, was 547 .724 which ia ss the rate of los
bead CT cattle to every hundred inhabitants
Such is the statement of the account after three
years of devastating wsT, which has ragged
with great fury in that grand old Common
wealth. Can il be possible thEt the eettls them
selves are in = conspiracy against rs 1t looks
very much like it. Everything seems to work
/ in favor of the rebels" Az tor the North, it
has left no maans untTied to overWhelm the Con-
| fedeTacy, bat without success First Is en-
ployed seveRty-fve thousand men, then some
/ thing ike seven hundred thousand, aud so On
until u succeeded IN TGlsing aHa eqWpplng over
two millions for the purpose Of cOnqusrng-
what A staTo:Hg people, and sn OF whose
armies bsd been annihilsted time and again.
But we should really like to know what the
South is starving upon, for, if ever the North
| expects te succeed IA this war, It must be made
20 starve upon precisely the same kind Of diet
/ 1t is said that Stone1an Jsekson's men lived
upon roast m, snd con8idsring what they &C.
l complished on such fare, there must be great
/ deal Of strength in that kind Of food. By all
means lei us ny roast corn, aadif that dom tsue-
ceed, perhaps there may be some virtue in sAuer
| kIaut or Swedieh turnips The. fsr-ismed Died.
rich Kuickerbocker rsIstes in his veracious his
/ tory of Nsw York that when the Dutch warriors,
under their redoubiable governor, cid Peter
| Stuyvessnt, charged upon the invaders, they
we're ''brimful of wrath and cabbage" Now,
il is strange if this waKliks compound would NOT
/ DO as efftctY as roast corn. Indeed, we are
willing to bet on Northern cabbage against
/ Southern corn any day; and we are very much
ineIiEsd to thiRk that all cur failures are atEib-
utsble 20 the shameful manner in " hich we
have ignored tbs merits of all that genus Of
plants which the botaRists range under the sci
eati6c Title Of B7GSsice. If cabbage fails, sRd
the S4uth will not be starved oui-in word, il
Ebe Confederstes refuse to acknowledge The
corn, lhsn We may as yell give up the ides Of
l snbjugstion, and Of waging was against srmieG
thss are proof even against Starvation.