Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-11-22

Do our eyes deceive u.s. Not i,
the Memphis APPEAL which stares Us in
the facet The same old letter-Roman
bold at the head; the same antique dee
Orations and plain captions; the very ink
and, as it were, the very paper.
We stand, so 10 say, in our own
shadow, and read IL like a
Here is the portly and impressive Dill,
like q burger OF the olden-time, i'm broad
hrimmed hat and silver-headed cane,
lust as he used 10 pass 10 and fro from
Whitehall to Peachiree, undismaycd by
the shells, unmoved 10y the dreadful
stencil Of saltpetre: here, lowering in
the air, l. the bleeding form Of poor Nc
Canadian; and here dripping with wa
Ter aud wrapped in mos, is the brilliant
Int Inflated Linehaughl But for the
daylight and the familiar sign of life and
being, well might've exclaim, with Ham
. let
Angels and ministers of grace defend us.'
The history Of this journal viii be read
a hundred wears hence like a romance
ID has hai more adventures than a
Knight of Malta, and has come out Of
the smoke and din, covered over with
scars but stronger and Drawer JOr the
conflict. IL has heard lions roar and
seen the sea Putied up with winds; and
its bauS aud.chaureS hv flood and field
make matter for q ballad. Nothing in
newspapprogTaphv, can compare with It's
strange, eVeutfUl career. Here J. a brief
snatch. tributary to the "Old preasns
"The press upon which this number Of
the APPEAL Is printed, and which will,
we trust, yet issue many thousands 10 De
scattered broadcast throughout the Mis-
-issippi Valley, is the identical press
which left here IN eighteen hundred and
siEtv-ruO a little while before the occu-
patton Of Memphis by theFederal troops.
IL Is the same press from which was Is
sued the APPEAL from GFenada5 and
which retired from that town AS the
Federal cavalry were approaching the
north bank of tho Tallahatchie, after
Grant had driven PemberiOH from Alb
beyville. Ii Is the same p-ess, with The
same pres-man-. Andy Harmon, may F..
his days be long and his shadow never I
grow les- that was stt'cd out /
Of Jackson, when Grant made his
famous move from Bruinsburg, by /
which be isolated PembeftoH aud shut .
him up i'm Nicilsburg, 20 De bagged 4
thereafter on the fourth of July. At first F.
the shells had the best of ID, "a mum Der OF I.
them inIercepllng the line Of march over 4
Pearl river; iut Andy Harmon and the I
been printed That mornings APPEAL, /
won tie race IN the end. While old Joe 4
Johnston was bothering the Federal ad- .
vance. our press made its clean escape
down the Southern Railroad, to Mere
dian. and so on 20 Atlanta, O. its leisure.
II is the same press which yibrated 70 the
thuudershock Of the siege of Atlanta,
retiring therefrUm but q little while
befure Sherman. victorious leglOus en-
tered that nl-fated city. Ii is the same
press from whence, at Montgomery, the
APPEAL continued 10 cheer and encOur-
ape those whose quaTTels ID had es-
I.5ii-ed TO 'quit themselves Ike
men, until the advance Of that dashing
fellow, Mai.-Gen. Wilson, with his nine
thousand Spencer rifles. iu the hands of
picked men, JrhO Lasfg h8D ~ Eids and 10
d1bf admUnished ms Of the policy Of
,-S-arllsting DE "cradle Of the rebellion
And ssthi- same veteran campaigner of /
the Bress-gurUs took 30 itsi!t wheels and .
steam, aud sought refuge east % ne .
ghattaho1chic. The bulk Of the Office
was stopped al Columbus, and was there
DESTROYED Jy order OF Maj.-Gen. Wilson,
but the press having busG forwarded TO .
Macon was saved from destruction by
deposit in a safe place, and was not dis
covered until after the armistiee and the
pronunciation Of orders from Gen. shsr-
man, t1 stop the destruction Of either
public OF private property. IL has had
many q narrow escape, bat b. hale and
hearty, and capable Gf doing geoman's
service, As the appearance Of our paper
VIII testify
All, that oid press, How well we re-
member ST. CZictH H3y-clickF C7j.kify- /
llickf CHcIiiy-clictl Through the 4
long night ID ratified away, defiant Of the /
roar and storm outside; and every morn 1
ing how bright and fiery, mfaugued .
aud fresh it looked, like war-hOrse I
ready for another charge. They carried 1
the works on Peachree Creek they /
carried the works bel0w Decatur; /
they carried the rifle pits which ran
along the Macon road CLcEiy-click! 4
CFcLig-click! CgicE3y-c'icEi The 4
Gid press dashed along, needless Of dam /
ger. q liviag, breathing, cognizant I
baiug. east Of iron, steel aHd melt. .
D1I grew serious; Dumble's face eX-
tended. and Macs pen wandered vaguely I
across the page. Old Joe was down the ]
country and Hood was playing the daviL /
Then Stoneman was gObbled. CRickHg /.
oyjeE ratified the press. There was a I.
pause-an omnibus JUL The bloody |
twgnty--eeond 81 July was passed the I
bloody twenty-eiglth had been lost and I
B61. Hill knew no more about Sherman /
than he did about Paradise. Hood, like /
Bill. was serious ANA The boys at
7be front were serious. Hardee was
off at Jouesbsfo. Hg0mt BOQm! |
How the guns thUnderedi Crdsh' I
Ccqeht How the roofs, walls and church /
spires umGlCd WIS! WIZ! How the /
-rhrapnels tore through uie air. lt.c1ity- f.
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