Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-30
NORTHERN NEWS AND LIES.
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From the New York Herald, Novemter 10.
Ever since the civil war brske out in the United
States the English Government English aristocracy
snd English press, including quarterly reviews
monthly magazines, weekly and daily journals with
some few uncomfortable exceptions. have BETRAYED
their enmity to the American republic IN a variety
OF ways They first advocated the recognition Of
i the Southern Confederaey as a belieerent mower
| and they soon after recognized the rebel govern.
| ment as such. England next sent out a fleet and
| troops to American waters, either as q menace to
/ the United States or as an advanced guard IN the
1 event of actual hostities with u.s. The press Ar
| home, and its correspondents here, from Russell
/ down, or rather, perhaps. from Russell up, have
I represented the permanent acknowledgements Of the
! Union as an accomplished fact, beyond human power
10 reverse and they have done their utmost to in
Hnence the public opinion of Europe against US
with view to the recognition of the Independence
OF the ,rebellious States The wish is evidently
father to the thought and they are only trying TO
fulfil their old predictions, and to render successful
their own efforts to break the republic into power.
less fragments in order that Britannia nav hence
forth rule the waves, and secure that maritime st
| premaey of which the American nation has long
siaee stripped her. Already, with indecent exults-
ton, the organs of British interests prematurely
boast that their lost trident has been recovered from
US, and that England is again mistress Of the seas
We have laid these facts before our readers from
time to time; and because we have done so the sb-
clifton Journals of this city and elsewhere have ae-
eused US OF d1sloyaly to the government in provo
king war with q friendly Power while civil war i
exists in the United States This kind Of seeusaton
shows the ignorance Of the New York journals and
their want Of sagaeity, from their inability to per
celve our views and purposes the hostile machir-
ations Of the British government. We ara already
at war with England, and England has bsen at war
with Us for thirty years. She has always been at
war with US. At the time Of our Revolution We
Waged war for seven years against her and we
whipped her. In 1872 she commenced war with
US which lasted for three years. In that too she
failed, and was again whipped Seeing that she
could never succeed in this description Of warfs=e
she next tried her hand ct another kind of conflict
"a war Of abOlition-snd that abe has carried on
for upwards Of quarter Of q century She has
seat out here an army Of open propagandists and :
secret agents to SOW the seeds Of national dscord
Prominent among these the name,of George Thonlp-
son win be reeolIected by every reader
IL maftered not TO the British aristocraeY by .
what means the disrupHoni could be effected If i
fierce could not do it. then fraud must be resorted
to. Their political missionaries professedI the n
greatest love and amity for the American Union, !;
and they assured the Northern States that if they
would only admit the abolition question in their
national issues, with view TO the emancipation of
the Southern negroes, the wealth, prosperity great
ness and glory OF the country would be multplied
and the Union would be for seyer preserved. The
American allies Of the British anti slavery propa
gandists in despite of every warning introduced
this treaeheroEs element into our politics. as the
creoulous Trojensi upon the artfuI Representations
of perjured Simon, admitted within their walls the
wooden horse Of the Greeks secretly filed with
armed men, resulting in the capture of Trov.
which had stood ten years siege, and involving
the rum of It's king and government. And IS the -
deceltW Greek swore he was friend of the TrO. y
JAMS, and persuaded them that the fatal wooden y
horse was of divine orign-a palladium for their 81
eternal protectionso the British sboGtionists IN q
pretending friendship for the American people, =
have proclaimed their creed as from Heaven and w
its adoption as essential to the safety of the country II
How fatal their gift and their advice have been re
now American history. IN
The British have thus waged war upon our in OF
stitutions and treacherOusy enlisted in their SEP OF
vice American dupes and traitors who have pro- ~
claimed the Constitution Of the United States es- ~
tablished by Washington and his compatriots of ~
l776, to be covenant with death and an agree ~
nent with he'll because it provides for the pro ~
lection of the institution of negro slavery. The ~
nobility and gentry of England have feted Harriet u
Beecher Stow because she wrote against that inst o
ution a calumnious book called ''Uncle Toms ~ ~
cabin" Now this is part which the French peo- "a
pie have played towards the United States sf
They have not medded with our institutions in any o
hape FORM and they have not interferredi in our
omestic troubles since the commencement of our al
iVil war. This we take to be good evidence of Gu
friendship for the republic On the contrary the an
uling and influential classes in England, and their "a
rgans, great Snd small have ceased to Wilt Ta
misrepresent snd taunt u.s. while they glost over On
he anticipated disntegration of our democratic re- %
ublic The antislavery journals of this city are n
rstorousy playing into their hands, and by their a
owardice and poltroonery inviting English inva- rel
ion. an
The course Of the patriotic press is to expose -
lis folly and treachery, and to show bold front wa
the British government 80 as to convince it that
ather than permit any impudent interference in al
ur internal affairs, prepared to accept the oOt
ternatve Of for the third time with England tut
pen thoughwe have domestic upon ourihands as
he latter is now in fair way of being brought LETT
a successful ternins tIon and fter that let fba eve
fsh nation who has been the originator Of our mao
eubes look out for such retribUtion as the re- poV
lited republic will know how to infiet and at OPP
e san1e time Let her Vuiltv aecomnlicez Of tbe Uni
merican abolition nTess he. pren.red fo rear a.
st. the rewards of their treason. int
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Legal QnestIen Involving Eight Humid. Eor
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From the chiesgo Tribune. Nov T. mer
A question of great importance to the CONNER the