Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-28
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The subjoined is an extract Of q letter frsm ihe
correspondent Of the New York Daily Nelos. and
appears in that paper Of the 18th instant
PARIs, July 2, ls6I-You can have no idea Of the
wonder with which your last American news has
been received here. krenchmen who are familiar
with the history Of the American Revolution and
have read De ToequeviIle with care are astonished
at the ease with which your people have passed
from freedom into abJect submission "a the woke of
an irrepressible military despOtsm. They ask
whether you have become emasculste-whetber the
men of '76 have left no progeny in the land. or
whether il be the corruption Of the worst Europeau
influences or the efeminscy Of long prospe-ity.
that has dulled the brain and enfeebled the nerves
of your people. have heard military oficers 10
the Cafes here scouting at incidents and scenes DE-
scribed in your New York journals, and copied into
the French papers as curiesIties.
They say that such threats OF devastation and
slaughter and such bcastings over the msrest sir-
mishing, will make the people who indulge in them
the detestation of the civilized world All the
pungeney of our keenest satrists, and the wits Of
Charivari, are directed against the -gaseonade"
with which many Of your journals are nlledi while
the fercest indignation is expressed at the maig-
nAnt spirit that accompanies it. The high soldlery
sense Of honor felt by the disciplined military OF
the Old World is shocked and disguised at the IN
suits and i'll treatment heaped upon prisoners cap
tuFed in battle by soldiers Of the UnioE- 4 on can
not make the French veteran believe that those who
do these things are brave or worthy men, and
verify believe thst great has been the sympatny
for the South, produced by these narratives, that
the mass Of the Imperial army, particularly the
leading officers, would ask no better employment
than attack anywhere upon the troops who are
guilty of such Outrsges.
For instance the New York Herald in letter de-
scribing the retreat from Great Bethel, where the
Union forces were horribly defeated, allows Its
correspondent to say. that q single person BY the
name of Waring an officer in the rebel army, Was
to fire from the doorway Of his dwelling as the
Union men went by il on their hurried retreat. He
was surrounded by g detachment OF the passing ar
my and captured when the officer to whom he sur
rendered Immediately proceeded to give him-a de-
fenceess prisoner Of war, in the presence OF hund
reds Of armed and iniuriated men-a good kicking
depOre the impression that these things are pro
duclng all over Europe. We are becoming eontemp-
tibe among the nations Of Europe, and our total
ruin and disgrace are calmly predicted. On all
sides, the press particularly the governmental
journals give unmistakable evidence that the AFRO
gance Of the American Cabinet has converted late
favor into i'll disguised hostility.
have only time to add that n, Confederate Com
u,issioners are here and have contracted, in quar-
ter not many hundred miles from Belgium, Tor a
steel clad steamer AMI several batteries OF the steel
rifi7d cannon which are sup3rctdlng al others
Some Of II latter have already gone to New Or
leans in the custody Of distinguished French ON
GERS Mr. Mann has secured the use OF new kind
of powder Of Illuminating compound, lately invented
at Berlin. It Is easily prepared from ingredients
everywhere abundant, and viii great as ist The Con-
Tolerate States Of America in their dearth, IT any
exist of the old fashioned article.
With regard TO the recognition Of ;he New Con-
federacy, it is simply question Of time, and those
men are mad who dream thst France and EBgland
will heed the blockade Of its ports by any pow
er which does not hold and possess the same especi
alIy should their own safety at home spur the two
great naval empires 10 decided and speedy action.