Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-06-26


Il comes among US friend, wins our Conscience.
feeds on bounty, and then stabs us in cur sleep
It meanly assails the interests and honor Of the
generous people who have supported it, slandering
our best and purest men, sustaining our enemies
and making war upon our rights. In the paragrsIh
have quoted the editor Of The Journal has boldly
unmasked his feelings of hostility to the South spd
has exhibited all the hypocrisy and meauness Of his
treaeherous and iguoble nature, He has often, in
deed, always expressed The same sentiments which
We have quoted above, but more srtfully concealed
Now, that he has thrown off his disguise, and
stands before in all his hideOusuess and deformi
/ ty, We hope that the South will treat him as an
avOwed enemy, and drive him from among US. to
seek his support where his affections and sympalhies
would lead him among the AbolitiOnists Of the
North.
The Right OF Search in Parliament--The
Question not Settled,
The New York Herald Of the Goth, under this cap
ton, says: We learn by our adviCes from Englan
by the Vanderbilt that the question of the British
Outrages had been again brought up in Parlia-
ment, and the Minister Of Foreign Affairs had
been interpolated on the subject.
Orders are said to have been given to stop the Wis
o
and the hope has been expressed By Lord MAInEs-
BURY that when conversation he had had with Mr.
Dallas had been reported to The United States gov
ernment, and dispatch he had sent to Lord Napier
bad been delivered, nothing weuld occur to mar he
alliance sc happily existing between The TWO com
tries as from the conversation be bad had with the
American Minister, he believed there was no great
difference of views between the two We do not
yet know w,.at the views Of Mr.. DALLAS are, but
from a careful perusal of the expressions used in
the House of Lords on this occasion. we are much
inclined to differ With Lord MALNEssURY aud to be-
eve that there is very material difference Of views
between the two governments, and that not only is
the question of the right Of search fer from being
settled bat that it will become at no distant day,
subject of irritating discussion.
Our reasons for such belief lie in the fact that
all the parties to the present and former discussion
in Parliament this subject, and all the editorial
comments of the British journals upon the ques-
ton with a single exception, have sudiously ignO
red and slurred over the true point at issue. We
will recapitulate the positions taken by three lead
ing statesmen in England, in the last discussion of
this subject.
Lord CLARENDON believed that it was desirable to
avoid either an extension Of the slave trade or
rupture Of political relations with the Unite States
that the American government did not desire that
the slave trade should be extended that vessels be
longing to the United States had carried on the
slave trade, and he did not see how it could be
stopped unless some right of search was gveni that
such right mas been admitted by all maritime IA
tlons; thatno British officer would exercise the right
of searching an American vessel fhe was really con-
WINGED that it was bona fds American; that if al
foreign power should interpOse to prevent the per
pelratiOn of nefarious offences by British vessel
England would be obliged to them for their iuterfe
renee; and he did not think the American govern
ment would differ from England on that point.
Lord MALHEsBURY entirely agreed with his noble
friend that the American flag is constantly prosti-
tuted to cover the slave trade and other illegal acts
that it is highly desirable that some agreement
should be made between the two countries, by which
it may be distinctly understood what proceedings
ought to be taken by their officers respectively and
which will not be offensive TO honest traders; and
that it is to this point he has directed the attention
Of the government of the United States, on which
there is no great difference of views between him
and the American Minister.
Earl HARDwIoKH said that the mode of operations
of inquiring into the nationality of a vessel had
been clearly laid down, and if there had been any
excess Of those instructions it was against the di-
rectOn that offence was to be given to any nation
in conducting the operations in those seas.
Now we deny, pOintedly and categorically, all the
positions assumed by Lord CLARENDON and Lord
MALMEsBURY; and if Mr.. DALLAS has no great diff
ference with these statesmen on these points,
he has kept too much company with British minis
ters and does not represent the viewsOf his govern
ment or if he does represent the views Of the ad-
minisratiOn in this cOinoiding with Lord MALMEs-
BURY, then the adm. nistration does not represent
the almost unanimous wishes of the American
people. The extension or extinction of the slave
trade is not point in which the United States
sympathizes with England, and is the true point
at issue. The government of the United States
takes care that no African slave trade is carried on
with the United States; but it is of its business
whether England, France, Spain, Portugal, and all
other nations of the world, permit prohibit the
slave trade in their dOminiOns. Vessels of the
United States do not carry the slave trade, is
the American flag prosttuted to cover that and
her illegal acts, as Lord MALMEsBURY asserts
The criminality of selling American vessels to the
slave traders in Africa to carry their slaves in
no greater than that of selling them British goods
to buy the slaves with. The British flag protects
those goods until they safe in the slave traders
stores. The right of search has not been admitted
by all maritime nations, and never will be admitted
by the United States.
As to Engands readiness to permit foreign
power to search British ships at sea, we do not
think Lord CLARENDON represents the feeling of the
British nation. Let suppose, for moment, that
the United States pretended to the interest in
stopping the slave trade that England does; that
we should assert that the British sg constantly
prOstituted in carrying madapOllams, salempOres,
Brumagem muskets, powder and rum for the slave
traders, and we should send fleet into the st.
Georges and British channels, and bring to and
board every British ship coming cut of their pOrts
and that, further, should capture and take into
Plymouth or Southampton all vessels having goods
on board with which negro might be purchased on
the coast of Africa. Lord CLARENDON will permit
u, to believe that il we did all this, John Bulls
blood would boil wiz anger, and if 1t did not, he
ought to have-his nose pulled. Yet this is no
more than British cruisers are doing to our ships
under pretence of putting down the slave trade
My Lord MALMEsBURY may believe that it is
highly desirable that some agreement may be made
between the two countries to permit British officers
| to search American vessels upon the ocean. and