Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-19
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ern Confederacy has given new ire to the war jour
malls Of the North. Forsooth, for her sympathy
with the cause Of The South she IA threatened with
fire and sword. The New York Herald grows de-
FAINT In its insolence, calls her a"braggartn that
she has mo stomach for fight j" and grati6es its
spite In the following sarcastic article: 80
As steamer after steamer brings Us cur flies of
EBglish newspapers, we continue TO fad the same
ignorance of the causes, the objects and the pro-
gress of our civil war prevalent amongst the E1g-
fish editors The editorial columns Of most of the
English journals are filed just they were months
ago-with the NEST infamous misrep presentations of
the origin and causes of the war. with statements
that the disruption of the Union is fact accom-
plished, or with the declarations tending to make
that disruption certaIn-fhat this is war for the
abolition Of slavery. Nor are these misststements
made on account of any lack of reliable iniorma
ton as to the true state of affairs here. Again and
again we have demonstrated that these views of our
condition and of our policy were mistaken and so
plainly proven were our arguments In the matter,
that they have never been Tefuted, and could only
be ignored An ignoranes 80 persistent aad bigot.
ed as that of the English editors has its cause
None go blind as they who will not see and
h~se editors do rot understand, because they will
not
In his recent speech in Har,fordshire. Sir Lyt.
ton Buwer disclosed very plainly the coyen foot of
the devil who is at the bottom Of English sympathy
with the Southern rebellion. he declared emphst-
ically that England would be airsid of our great
American Union,just as she nov trembles at every
movement of united France, and that she would
hail with rel icing the disruption of the republic
wesk to do her any harm, and not too strong for
her TO manage easily. That is to say, Eaglsnd Is
fraid of the United States, and if she can divide
them il is her policy to do It. Cover it up Bull
wer may by all sorts Of fair professions of regard
it is the policy of coward, and he taeity admits
it to be so. Nevertheless, it is the policy of En-
gland, and is not the less characteristic for being
cowardy.
! The Government of England is great biusterer
and braggart-full of big words, but with stom-
acA for hght-brsve in email cases and with weak
opponents, but trembling and shaking with ahject
| tear when Napoleon lays his hand upon his sword
| hilt The English people may be the very pposite
of this, but the English Government does not repre-
sent the English people is it, except secondari
] IL and after tedious interval Of wire-pung. at
all controlled BY them. The people are brave; but
the aristocracy is tmid and it controls the Govern
ment and hence il follows that the Government of
England is, and always has been, coTardly in ita
policy.
The, aristocracy of England has always feared
this country, and its pet scheme hiss been TO destroy
our Government and make our institutions our
ruin. It was g matter of rule or ruin, certainly
for our institutions have been for years so Affect
ing and moulding those OF England that every day
the people were becoming holder in their demands,
and every day the sristocracy were becoming less
secure than its tenure of power The eayen Of demo-
crazy was lesveni1g the whole English monarchicai
lump, and John Bright and his party were grade
ually but surely gaining the ascendaDey. Demo
| cracy in England could NOT be annlhilSted while
democracy here was aiding and abetting it, and
continually refuting the ablest arguments of Eng.
Iish sristocrsts by outriValing their own Govern
ment in its benificent power. So democracy in
America must fail, and with it would fall demo-
crscy in England
p6e weak spot in our system wss the institution
of slavery and to that the EIgish aristoersey di
rected is attention 1t gsve Fictitious Importance
70 cotton, on the one hand, and thus deluded the
South with the idea that cotton was king, and that
King Cotton could rule better alone. 0n the other
hand, aided by such minions as our Abolition dem
agogues, journalists and lecturers, it urged the
North into crusade against slavery, and at one
/ time went SO far as TO demonstrate, through the
Tribune that the North would be stronger and richer
without the South This admirable scheme worked
IN different ways, but towards the same end. The
south was urged to separation by motives of self
interest and selfSconcet and these were strength
ened by the hatred of Aboliiionism. The North
was encouraged to oppose slavery forcbly, and
was told that if the worst it would be much better
off without the South. &c. backing both parties at
once and leading each to believe that it alone
in the right, and certain Of success, the Eogish
sristocracy urged on the fight Ii was the old game
of getting two men to fight while third took the
spoils. The game succeeded. We came to bio VS..
Immediately the organs of the aristocraey an
nsunced the end accomplished. and began to chat
John Bright Look at your Democratic institutional
Is that the sort Of thing you want TO try here.
All this BulWer tells US in his HartfOrshire speech;
and if we remember that the Esglish press is the
organ of the English arIstOcrGcy we shall have no
difficulty in understanding the persistent ignorance
Of English editors. The press 10 Englsnd has no
real existence apart fr-' the Rristooracy. Its re-
porters are not even ed in Parliament, except
by legal fiction whie- 1ecsres they not there
because lattice work screens them from the view
Of the honorable members. Almost ever English
newspaper is the organ of this nobeman that
nobleman, or of this or that noble clique. The
newspapers, therefore, represent sristocrsc views
and If any wishes to know the secret of the an
m0sity Of the English press towards this country
he will fnd it in the open, avO"ed hostility of the
EDRlish arstocracy, which controls and directs the
English press and in the scheme for the disruption
Of this Union, which the aristOcracy has long fos~
tered and developed, and over the success OF which
it now triumphantly eEuts.
The exultation comes too soon. however. A COW
ard is always shortsIghted, and always neglects or
oVerlooks something IN his plans. Ii England had
cherished this country, our strength would have
9een her strength. and our success would have in
cured the permSnency Of her institutions for years
TO come. Nov, however, that she has thrown down
the gauntlet, affairs will take different course.
She neglected to notice that the North is stronger
Than the South, and that cur bsttle will not be a
drawn one; and thence comes the Nemesis, the
North will bring the South back again into the Union
anu tnen 00tn pSrttsS NORM anu oOulO, VIII demand
the author of this family quarrel and turn their
united strength to punish her. The English people
with US now; and as the erisiocTsey has exult
ed so loudly over the supposed failure of dsmocTa
cy the people will regard the re union Of these
States as a triumph Of democracy over the sristoc
racy.
With people exulting In our triumph and indig !
nant at the Government which delayed aud hind |
cred it, and with a great nation here burning to |
chsstise the miscresnt who stirred up feud be- |
tween brothers, English aristscracy will be in a
very bad way, and we should not be at all sur
prised if John Bright had the re>modelling of the
British Constitution after all. The English editors
had better be on the lookout for this wind, and |
trim their sails for it The peoples sympathy !
should berepresented by the press and the safety
Of either the aristocracy the sristocrsdc jour /
mails is in complete Identification of itself with the
peoples cause The people of England cannot
long favor the North while the Government IA |
vors the South, without trouble coming of the dis
agreement. The people caunCt change. The Gov
eminent and its organs must.