The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-11-15

those who are now engaged in enrolling unhappy
men for these desperate and criminal enterprises
really contemplate the success OF a descent upon
Ireland for instance, probable, or even possible
All they can hope is that the miserable fate sure to
attend such wretched adventures may be the means
OF inhaming the public mind against England, and
stirring up the passions of the people to point
which might render war inevitable This consum'
nation it is the duty of the American Government,
if it can, TO prevent and as il cannot of the Gov
eminent against which such attempts are aimed,
by all means to avert. II we can prevent these ex-
petitions from sailing, or intercept them in mid
ocean, shall have done much towards aVertng
the danger that must arise should they be carried
out TO their natural development. The course of
action we have adopted is bold but for that very
reason we believe it to be prudent and safe.
We are fully aware Of the advantage that such
proceeding gives to those active emissares Of
discord, who are necessarily employed in every
State of the Union in stirring up the feelings of the
popuIace against this country. That which is
mere measure of self defence against lawess force
they will represent as insult offered to the law
full government OF the country; they will declaim,
they will distort, they will exaggerate, but we must
not omit to prepare against real dangers because
our preparations may be honestly misunderstood or
designedly misrepresented. England has every
wish and every interest to remain at peace with
America The immense trade which carry on
with her, the community OF language and OF blood,
the absence of any ground of dispute or subject of
rivalry, all plead iorcibly in the same direcon.-
How strange that under such circumstances, We
should be driven to arms merely because it is the
will of portion of the sovereign people to make
war upon US, unsupported and unapproved, but al
so, neither prevented nor arrested by the govern
ment. We desire, above all things continuance
of peace, but, if it be the determination OF any
large portion of the people of the United States to
force war upon US, we shall know how to meet it
and repel it, without relaxing for an instant, our
grippe the throat of the Keeling and tottering g
ant of the North.
But is it for the credit of those free Institutions
often Wanted all that is wise, perfect and lib
eral on the face of the earth, that friendly and
kindred nation, ardently desiring peace, shouldfeel
itself compelled to stand on the defensive, not be-
cause it has any serious dispute with the govern
ment of this free and happy community, but be-
cause that government is unwilling unable to
prevent its citizens from going forth to murder and
TO piunder in the dominions of an unoffending ally?
Are these the garands with which the tree OF free
dom ought to be adorned-are these the laurels
with which the temples of the goddess should be
bound? England has some claim to be called the
mother of freedom; and her citizens are free, be-
cause they know how to Obey-hOw to subordinate
their individual wills TO that law the supremacy of
which constitute the principal distinction of a civil
lied community.