Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-02
rur stratsnlcnI editor Of the Auo.

THE strategical editor of the AUG-
Janche, in an editorial double loaded,
dotted all over with small caps and
filled with words Of dire and evil i'm
port to the French, insisted yesterday
with greedy and eager haste that Nc
Mahon's army had been beaten by the
Prussians, and that the remnant Of
that gallant baud were flying in
every direction before the pur-
suing victors. The plan and
the execution of the plan of
the Prussians he praised as just the
thing, just what the strategical editor
would himself have advised had King
William the good sense and the good
taste to call him in council. We were
told in this double barrelled, double
distilled, double-leaded Prussian edi-
torial how the Prussians, 100000
strong, halted, faced to the right, and
moving in column to the north, swept
the country clean; that the defeat and
destruction of McMahon's army fol-
lowed like a conclusion in figures
whatever that means) that Bazaine
viii surrender Metz when the brave
defenders of Strasbourg have surrend-
cred their ancient city, and that Paris
will open its gates, although the Ger
mans may be hundred miles away.
This is the solid conclusion of the
strategicsl editor of the AUdIdnche.
That is the way he would have
the horrible war conclude which
now is devastating the fair
est portion of Europe, and rob-
bing her of the flower of her popula-
tion. But the strategical editor of
the Avalanche, in humble imitation
of an ancient monarch of the country,
he seems to hate as intensely as Viii
liam of Prussia himself, having
marched up the hill must march down
again. There was no such battle as
our neighbor clapped his hands over:
and consequently there was no such
victory for the Prussians as he ap-
plauded. On the contrary, we publish
dispatches this morning, even from
Berlin, which admit the rumors of
battle as without even a shadow of
foundation; and several from London
heretofore noted for hostility to
French interests) state that Mcmahon
has wheeled about; and, so far
from retreating, is now moving
rapidly toward Montmedy, doubtless
on his way to succor the besieged
army Of Bazaine. And that, too,
with prospect of being Joined by an
army from Lyons, said to be 100,0
strong. The war, so as far it has pro-
gressed, has been a one-sided game,
in which it has been manifest from
the first that the Prussians were pre-
pared and the French were not.
Indeed, the latter from the out
set have been literally fight
ing for time TO organize and
put their brave and chivalrous people
in a condition to contend with the
equally brave soldiers of Prussia.
Precipitated into war by their rulers,
the people of the two greatest nations
OF Europe are now thoroughly imbued
with its spirit-those. of one flushed
with success and determined on vic
tory to the; and those Of the other,
moved by a sense of outrage that in
vssiOn always begets, determined on
driving the invaders from their soil.
With equal resources it is reasonable
to expect that the contest waged in
this spirit will be prolonged, and that
victory to either side will not be as
easily accomplished as the work of
the flippant, strategic editor Of the
An0lagche