Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-07
Foreign Intervention.

III stE.o Foreign InIerV enJiOn.
4 WeperceiYe that our teotemporary, the Charles
toni Mercury, confesses itself disappointed in tn.
course Of England towards the Confederate States
The editor Of that iournsl ii seems counted large
iy on the sympathy if not the active CO oepeFatior
of England and expected every incidental aid and
4 encouragement that could be given, in the way o
allowing our priyateers to enter her ports witt
their prisss, recognising eur government, breaking
up the blockade, &c. The MsTcFy expected Eng
tiand to be governed BY her interest, and to Under
stand what her interest is = and refers to the fac;
that she forced China to allow the English to sell
.ths Celestialsn opium, which only benefited her
4 people E5 900 000 but allows the Yankees to shut
her people out from The ensrmous and indispeAsa-
bic trade IN cotton for which she could pay in her
own manufacturss-7espscially as the North has q
much higher tAriHthARth the South, &c. ss'7n-
We venture to suggest that our able and esteemed
JeOtenporary Is little impatient. England will be
governed BY interest," and as it is interest alone
and not sympathy that VIII control her conduct, it
was to be expected that she would defer to the last
moment the action Of which. the Mercury too soon,
desponds. The necessity has not yet become quite
imperative. We do not doubt that it would be
gladly escaped altogether, but that is impossible
The Government prudently prefers NOT to"tAke the
Inevitable step until il is demanded BY the people
and they win aOt full reazs the necessity for it
until famine is at their. doors, That day is now
near at hand, and it is evident that the more enlght
ehe minds Of the country are preparing the masses
for it. The best informed and most influential
Journals, not only of England but Of France and /
some of the other continental pow as the Mont
gout4ry Advertiser correctly says, now openly
take the position that Of the ultimate reeognltion
of the South there can be doubt and therefore
the sooner the European governments take acton
in the matter the better, for an concerned. We I
have copied several extracts from English papers
recently and in nearly al of them the conclusions
arrived at are the same. In consequence Of the /
fact that the people of Europe have been aceuston
ed to receive their impressions of Southern men I
and Southern institutions ough Northern sources
the true state of things at the South has been very
imperfeefly understood abroad English journals
find it very difficult to fdisab1se their minds of the
impression, received from Northern AbOHtOnists
that the institution Of slavery it exists at the
South, is q barbarous institution and source of
positive weakness in the present contest it is not
easy to make them believe otherwise than that the
negroes among US pining for their freedom, and
that q proclamation from LINCOLN emancIPatiDg Z
them weuld create general insurrsctiOn There
is one thing which all understand, however, and
that s that our soldiers are winning nearly all the
battles, and are tAaa rapidly proving 70 theworld
the ability Of the Confederate States to6maintsin
their own Independence without asking recognition
or favor from any one. On this latter point the
London RsviRo lately saidc ao aaa Il u1alI a-Ift
oraThe Eorth may be assured of one thing, which
is that If the war lasts much longer and the South
continues TO win all the battles, the Kingdoms and
States Of Europe-aud Great Britain among the
number, will be compelled to recognize the South
ern Confederation as de fdeto Government In s
our day, Governments cannot listen TO debates upon
the de lure when the de tqco is before Them for if
they dId they would be engaged in succession of
wars. The King Of Italy is recognized by England
and France because his Kingdom is fact and r
the Southern Confederation bids fair to be SC :
knowledged on the same principle" 0- Is
The Reuelo takes the position that the Southern Ia
States had right to secede from the Union;
that the South had many inherited rights as the
North, aud there was no treason or dislOyalty IN
their wtthdrawsl. 1t says; ai,F l-l H7s-1 t'-ts
"a The North may continue to talk Of the rebels.
but it is not a rebellion. The word is an sssump>
ton of q prior as well as 3 greater right which 9
ceases to exist If it ever existed At ALL the very
momenk when the South found Itself strong
enough to deny and repudiate it, 10 fact the state
OF anAlrs IN WnaI lne OOutl CdNs sSCes- :
sion And, however much the North may re gret
the contamination, and struggle to avert it, there
win be henceforward two Confedsratops, instead
of the once great Republic sf the United States.3
The worst feature of the war; in the estimation
Of the Rsvieo is not nat the North has lost nearly
every battle in whichit has engaged, or that the
country ia divided into two Confedefacies, with
air preapect of third bat it is the loss Of liberty
the most neztimEblSl privilege of people, Such Id
has been Che Blightng influence of the contest upon
Eortbe+n people, that they seem perfectly willing
to enseye themselves if they can succeed in enslsEt
inz The South. The RsUieso says =: lao .a--s7 serE
Liberty no longer exists IN the Northern half Of B
Fhe Republic Military law by stern and inyinci 81
bic necessity rides roughshOd over the civil Law e
whenever the two come into collision. Congress-
in a panic winch itmistakes for Vigor-YOtes away
without COMMENT the dearest rights of the peoples
0verthrOsso bysa vote that is almost unanimous sF
ard that would be entirely there not few te
seeessionists still left among smembers, all the Sc g
eErites that formerly guarded the purse or person
Of the eilizsn squanders money with recklessneEs
that has never been eqzsled in the worst wars Of
the Old Rorld&nd In all its dOngs gzlOps at such 81
pace IS to suggest TO Americans well to Eu- NJ
r6pRms that the daE of detstor is az hand-ot fc
will make permanent that deprivation e
Of liberty which Is now alleged to be temporary. nj