The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-11-24

The London Times, of the LIST inst, In a
leading article on the relations between the
United States and Great Britain, makes the
following statement:
"When the war in the East first broke out, and
England found herself in aud unwonted ALI.
Ance with France, and equally unwonted hostility
with Russia, there was no power from which she
received assurances OF support more hearty, more
satisfactory, and more spontaneous than from the
United States of America. Even the minister of
the Union In this country, unless we misinform-
ed testified 10 the cordial sympathy Of tie Cabinet of
Washington and The nation OUeT uhich IL presides-
he expressed an apprehension as to the durability
of our alliance with France, and our ability, alone
and unaided, to resist the overwhelming might of
Russia. But he desired to be under no Gppre-
heflSio on that account, for The United States
iciling 10 make quarrel their OsCr and aid as
NTH thousands of stout hearts and brdony arms, as
ready 70 pluck down the despotism of the East as
90 subdue the wilderness and level the giant forests
of the West"
The London Times does not state upon what
authority it makes this bold and unequiyocsl
declaration, and in the absence of this knowl-
edge, we are inclined to think the Times has
either misunderstood Mr.. Buchanan, or wholly
perverted and misrepresented what he did say.
We are led to this conclusion from our belief
that Mr.. Buchanan knew better what became
his position as Minister from the United States
TO Great Britain-that he has been truer TO
the real sentiments and opinions of the Amer
lean people, which have, throughout the strug-
gle between Russia and the Allies, certainly
not favored the policy of Great Britain, to
have given assurance, either officially or semi
officially, or even privately, of any such cor
dial sympathy as the Times represents him as
giving. Mr.. Buchanan holds high diplomatic
position in London as the representative of
neutral power--a power that has explicitly
declared that while it seeks peace and amity
with all nations, will form entsngling alli-
sDces with none-and it would be most I'M
. becoming in him, either in his official or pri-
waite capacity, TO express the views and give
the assurances which the Times so unequivo-
cally asserts he did.
If ''the cordial sympathy of the Cabinet of
Washington, and of the nation over which it
presides," has ever been expressed in any form,
through any channel to the British Minis
ter, we hope, as we believe, that gentleman
who stands as high in the estimation of his fell
low countrymen as Mr.. Buchanan, has not been
compelled to disgrace himself by acting as the
medium. We cannot credit the assertion in
any shape or form, nor can we believe that
hat distinguished representative Of American
interests would allow himself, for an instant, to
be made use of in so degrading performance.
If the President and Secretary of State have
officially expressed their sympathy for England
aud hostility to Russia, they must have done
it by some other means, by some autographs
letter letter, by some special messenger, or by
some selected and unusual method. The AmerI-
can Minister in London would cease to be what
the people of the United States have supposed
him to be, if he would submit to such instruc /
tons. For if there be one popular sentiment
well ascertained TO exist in this country, it is
that there is an unqualified lack of sympathy
with the cause of England in this contest, and
of this both the Cabinet at Washington and its
appointee in London must be aware.
Not satisfied with disappearing the "sym-
pathy" Of Mr. Buchanan, as we feel quite as
sured it must have done in the paragraph we
have quoted, the Times goes on to put into his
mouth silly twadde about thousands of stout
hearts and brawny arms" which were, accor-
ding to his account, to laid" the British in
keeping the Russians Off of Turkey, so that the
British themselves might seize the prize Now,
since Kossuth ruined his reputation a states
man and his welcome a guest, by preposte-
rous propositions 10 unite Great Britain and
the United States in sort of Holy Alliance
for the better regulation Of the rest of mankind,
we venture to say that no man who ever trod
the American soil and knows the American
people has INDUCED in that kind of baby talk.
Certainly no American born man like James
Buchanan, can have let himself out to any such
folly.
After the foregoing was prepared, the fol-
lowing dispatch in the New York Tribune, of
the 18th, (Which we do not find in our other
New York exchanges,) met our eye:
wAsHrNoruN, Nov. l6, 1858.
The State Department has received by the Pa
ci6e dispatch from Mr. Buchanan, unequiyocaily
denyinr that he had made a tender OF the sympa.
thy of the United States in favor OF the Allies
The Administration is under apprehensions OF
rupture with England.
The question naturally arises upon what su-
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