Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1856-11-19
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There is good deal Of curiosity felt just at this
time concerning tie thres ening attitude of affairs
between England and France on tie one part, and |
the small doninions of the King OF Naples on the
other. 1t is curious because ridiculous, ard is like
ly in the end, Notwithstanding their proves and
strength, to result in England and France taking
'one step backwards"
1t will be remembered by those who kept up
with the run of European events, that the grand
failure of the Allied powers in their war with Rus
siaIwas followed Ia 1t spring with an assembly of all
the Penipotentisries of the CIR eat Powers at Paris
to set upon and determine the future affairs of the
world. Russia, Austria, and Prussia were there by |
invitation and as matter of courtesy, but every
body understood it as peculiarly an English and |
French affair. They regulated the world They |
established justice between all powers They |
mended the manners of all nations. They fixed |
book of etiquette for all Europe. And wound up
by making perpetual peace for all mankind on
that side of the waters.
The thing was exceedingly ridiculous. Scarce
| ly three moons had waned before Paris and
| London journals, supposed always to reflect the
sentiment at Court, were pulling each other BY the
ears, which pleasant diversion has been confined
off and on to the present time. But to-day, for
getting their own manners, they have gone abroad
to assist King Ferdinand in regulating the small
| affairs of his domestic household. Their complaint
is thst he is bad mana great tyrsnt-and that
his tyrannies and excuses, have stirred up con-
diton Of feeling, which threatened the "good Or
der in that part of Europ-and that England and
France are interested in the peace and good order
in King Fsrdnands dominions, as revolution there
might breed discomfort smeng English or French
for self protection, they assert
their right to interfere with the domestic policy of
King Ferdinand as a matter of self-preservation.
Having sent in their circumstances by the usual
diplomatic ceremony, and been answered by King
Ferdinand to mind their cwn business and that be
would take care of bis, England and France have
called home their ambassadors and ordered off
their feet to Naples.
Thus stood affairs at last advices. What is to
become of it we do not feel sufficient concern to
conjecture. The stern and determined manner of
Ferdinand in repeling their ofic ous intermedling
in his private affairs, has created the impression
that be is backed with private assurances from the
) Emperor of Russia, who naturally enough must
look upon this intervention of the Western Pow
ers in Italian affairs as but repetition, on small
er scale, of their intervention in Turkey-which
had led to all the troubles of the last few years.
There is one light, however, in which we may
contrast the matter, that will not be wholly I'M
profitable to us OF this side of the water. very
respectable portion of the American people have
had coyetous eye on the Island of Cuba. Form
, ing ss it were, the key to the Gulf--overlookng
the great channel of commerce of the entire Mis-
sissippi valey-the halfway house on the highway
| from Charleston to New York; thousand times
more interested in the trade and commerce of the
a United States than the distant Government to
which she beongs-aff ording innumerable incon-
d venences and outrages to American interests and
g American rights, by reason OF the manner and
| means by which her laws are formed and enforced
. threatened at some time to be made second
D Hayti right at our door ONE of our most saga
cious statesmen have thought that it would be ju-
# | dicious policy in our government to purchase il
,, from Spain, by the regular forms of bargain and
sale. Many have thought that, under certain cir.
cumstances, as matter Of self protection, we would
: be justified even in Wrestling it from Spain by the
n strong hand of power. For 30 thinking and
speaking, how have we been characterized by this
= same English nation that is now ordering its feet
before Nsples?-because, as they say, its domestic
oppression is such as is likely to breed Revolution,
and that Revolution being contagious, they may
take it themselves and they are therefore, entitled
to interfere in these private concerns for sepro
;. lection. What did this same "order-preservng
r. people say? Nothing but-that we were "free
II hooters" "a nation of pirates" whom, if we per-
u sisted in our extremes, they would soon have to
read out of their great family of civilized nations
h Such is churish old mother England With 6
code of Puritancal morals for Others she never has
any for herself. Shocked at the seeming interior.
ence of any one power with the affairs of another
8 she exercises the peculiar prerogative of nterer
). ing with ALL When President PIERCE sent Ou
s Capt HoLLNs to dsperse the free-booers that haC
: congregated at Greytown, plundering our citizen:
and interrupting the Transit Company, John Bull
e had the sulks for a month. Her Minister to oul
e Government having violated our neutrality laws
e was disgracei and sent home, whereupon she
IS alevates his pain by bestowing on him new titles
of nobility England is to-day the most plumber.
J. ing pirsticsl nation upon the Globe, and yet bel
II shrewd diplomacy, and advance in all the accom-.
v plishments of civilization, have given an appear.
ance of propriey to her conduct that concesls hal
n her deformities from the world. In many instan.
ces they have advanced the general interest o.
mankind and therefore pass unrebuked. And YET
our Government cannot draw a long breath OF
prognostcats about the future that all the British
u press do not become excited with uneasiness.
KNOW-NOTHINGISM IN MASSACHUSETTS,
BosToN, Wednesday Nov. II.
The Fillmore American Council for Massachu.
i sets met in this city yesterday afternoon. About
e fifty delegates were in attendance. a series oil
. | resolutions were discussed and finally adopted
acknowledging the supremacy of the National
: American Organization, and declaring in favor Of
the puriEcato ofthe ballot-box, and the proven.
: ton of any interference of Church hiersrches in
O politics; the protection Of American men, Ameri-
can rights and American interests; an open Bible
and Free Schools; a Registry law in every State;
? q modification of the Naturalization laws, and in
o fine, for the general principle that Americans
! | sho uld rule America
g DENoUScIEG DoNELsoN.-It is not only amusing,
but actually sorrowful to hear the curses, the i'm
nrecations the excavations the aDathemas hesped