Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-06-26
The London lEOrnlnE Post on the Ameri-
can QUESTION:


| An article in the London Morning Post of june
T. on the American blockade, is attracting much at
tenhon-first because of the imperious and dictate
rial tone it has pleased to assume towards the LIN
COLIN Government, in connection with the Southern
movement for independence second, because
the journal is which Is the recognized organ OF
the Premier, Lord PAIMERsToN and the utterances
Of which, therefore, are of almost official impor-
tance The following extracts are sufficient to show
the spirit of the whole article:
"But if we revert to the question Of interference
which the New York papers aud Messrs. Cassius NJ
Clay and Burlngame SO incorrectly assert is about
to take place on the part of England we are natu-
| rally led to examine the American doctrine with
regard to the recognition of de fdeto governments
| We all know as matter of history that the indie
penaence of the thirteen States was secured by the
| aid and assistance of France. If England and
France should now apply precisely the game rule
to the Southern Confederation the North would Ger
tainly have no right TO complain Butthese threats
| on the part of a government which has rebellion
| and civil war to que are utterly idle and futile
1t is the policy of this government to abstain from
interference and if the governments is misinterpre
ted by the jealous lrrtabity of the Northern States
in this country afford to laugh at and despise
the folly of a government which, at such a time
would strive to supplement the horrors of civil war
by the disasters OF foreign contest. Mr.. Seward
sippl may be compensated by the annexation of
Canada and the command of the st. Lawrence. We
regret to see among the items of news brought by
the last mail, that Mr.. Lincoln has accepted the
| services of Canadian Volunteer Regiment
"During the Russian war, when the sympathies
of the cabinet at Washington were all with the
enemy of England and France, the enlistment of a
few wretched Germans within the territory of the
United States was considered offence so grave as
to sever all diplomatic relations between this eoun
try and the United States So, in the present case
if Mr.. Lincoln should carry out the absurd and
wrong headed policy expressed by Mr.. Cassius NJ.
Clay and Mr. Burlingame, at Paris the same result
of the cessation of diplomatic intercourse might
cur. But who would suffer? The sympathies of
this country would be aliensted from the North,
the evils of Southern slavery would be forgotten,
and any inconvenience to British commerce would
speedily be remedIed by the presence of British
fleet which would sweep every American armed
ship, whether cruiser or privateer, from the seas
In the present condition of the Federal Govern
ment, Spain can even afford to laugh at the threats
which Mr.. Lincoln is stated to have uttered with
respect to ST. Domingo; but that the President or
his satellites, now for the first time embarkng in
diplomacy, should endeavor TO insult and outrage
England, is an of folly to which the histO-
ry of the United States affords no parallel.
We have hitherto been silent on the possibility
of Lord Lyons being ordered to depart as Lord Ma
pier received notice to quit few years ago. But
if the Federal Government should provoke war,
Canada, in spite of the few discontinued who have
volunteered for the service of foreign State would
remain staunch and true. She would not only
maintain her own but she would paralyze the action
of the North with regard to the secession States
Mr.. Seward, who at one time stated that Canada
ought not be nterfered WITH because the time for
annexation would surely come, may possibly imag-
inc that by subsequently eourtng the assistance of
France the inhabitants of the Lower Province may
be sedueed to disloyalty and insurrection He will
find himself egregriousy deceived, for as far as OBJ
servatlon extends the Canadian people, without dis
tincton of race are devoted to the British crown
and it may be said that to their hands is des-
tined to be transferred that balance of power the
American continent which both the Democratic
North and the South so wilfully and needlessly
surrendered to England. and happy, eontented pros
porous and monarchclal Canada"