Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-06-12

m - s-e uealafs0n we now urge them
to invite Iney can have no nearer kinsroen no
t-uer friends than the Liberals of the mother con
try. IN tne nAme OF those men-in the name st any
rate, OF Liberal principles and Of the liberal cause
throughout the worid-we beaeech the New Eng
land communities, nobly forward in the strife 70
pause ere they irrevocably commit Themselves 10
the chances of battle; and 70 trust the ipfe-as4 ~
liberty rather to the arbitration Of its friends in
Europe than of the blind and senseless sword
An s. Unprovoked Tmputation,,
From the Manchester GaArdiak.
The American mall of which we publish an ab
stract in another column adds few facts Of impor-
tance relative to the progress Of the civil struggle
Such as it is the intelligence goes to show is ten
dency the part of the Southern States to recover
the resolute spirit which has appeared by two or
three previous arrivals to have been paralyzed by
the unexpected eagerness of the North for the fray
The Legislature of Tennessee has passed the ordi-
nance of secession. and it was reported that Ar
kansas has done the same. The Governor of North
Carolina has sent warlike message TO the Legisla-
ture and the Governor of Virginia has issued pro-
clamation stimulating his fellow-citizens of that
State TO resist invasion, and granting authority
for the levy of as many volunteers as may be
thought necessary. Those who have been ready
to think that Mr.. Lincoln's easy triumph was as
sured by the alacrity with which the wealthy and
populous communities of the North came to his as
sistance, will be induced by these facts to revise
their conclusion and think that the end is not yet
visible.
Perhaps it will be satisfactory to the friends of
the Union TO know that these apprehensons have
no place in the mind Of the intrepid statesman whom
President Lincoln has sent to represent his govern
ment at st. Petersburg. Mr. G. n. Clay has taken
advantage Of his temporary s0journ IN London on
his way to the scene of his official duties to en-
tighten the British nation respecting the true COM
plexion and prospects of the struggle which he has
left behind him, and which he is OF opinion that we
very imperfectly understand. For some reason or
other, however, he has not been able to confine
himself to the tone of calm elevation which would
best beft his superior kno wledge and greater i'm
partially but has felt constrained TO administer
US a severe scolding IN which expressions of un-
disguised contempt for our Judgment, are blended
with threats of the conseq to which we shall
expose ourselves by offending" the writer's party.
We are told by Mr.. Clay that of course > they
subdue the revoled States, and reconstruct the
Union without the change of single letter in the
Constitution. We glad to hear it, and should
be more glad TO believe it. Unfortunately, Mr..
Clay, who knows how it is to be done so much bet
ter apparently than his friends at Washington, is
on his way to st. Petersburg, where he cannot be
held personally responsible for any failure to realise
the prospect of early and easy success in which ne
revels. One thing we think We promise him,
and we do so the more readily because il is the only
point about which he appears to have any appre-
hensien. He undertakes that his government will
put end to the rebellion and restore the integrity
let dloae@ Ii is curious Mr.. Clay should profess Q
doubt only respecting the continuance of that oI
favorable circumstance of which we should have
thought he might feel most secure.
And this brings US to the most important point of
all. Where did this strange Minister PlenipOtenti-
ary learn that there any to suppose that
the Eagish of all nations the EARTH might be in
duced to interfere for the purpose of increasing the
difficulties of the United States? What is it we have
done thought to be going to do, which should
warning, A more t1lpToUOEed iHlpladtioR bGR that
,1!ich through the 1nhols Of Mr.. Cdy,s episte
has rarey been fortune 10 meet nth In the solemn
address of the Queen opening Parliament, in the
speeches not only of our Minister'S but of the prom
inent men of all parties, in the discussion Of the
subject by the press and in society there has been
almost unchequered evidence of feeling of sym
pa:hy and respect for the Union, combined as often
as the expression of such q sentiment was at all
becoming, with strong reprobation Of its lswless
and unscrupulous assaiants Yet it seems we re-
quire to be told by dipomatist in trGnsitu-taking
3 rds-eye view of the country rs he flies across
il on the way to the Russian cspito-on which side
our "honor ought to place us, on which side our
present interest, and lastly, on which side we shall
range ourselves if we prudently consult our fears
As to our honor we imagine most Engiishmea will
be content to answer that with many thanks 10 Mr.
Clay we prefer to take care of it ourselves. 1t
may be well for the North that we have sufh-
GENTLY strong sense of the side which it lies to
a plan well known to the Government of Washing
ton. by the dangers and distractions of powerful
rival. For, with respect to interest which is Nj
Clay's second point, we really do not see that il
furnishes US with overpowering motive for de-
string the subjecton of the cotton growing States
to the capitalists and manufacturers Of the North.
"No tariff !" says Mr.. Clay "will materially affect
the fact that the Northern States the best con-
sumers of English commerce." We think our great
exporting houses to America will tell Mr.. Clay
different tale, if he will interrupt his fight for
another day or two, in order to consult them. At
any rate if trade cannot be- and is not in course
of being totally destroyed by hostile tariffs, it is
not for the want of meritorious trying the part
f the political class which is putting forth all its
power to restore the Union. But if neither our
sense of moral obligation, nor gratitude for
such trade as is allowed US, sufices TO bind US 10
Mr.. Lincoln, we to beware Of the vengeance
which any wsvering will infalbly bring down up
on US hereafter at the hands Of the great state
which we shall have offended Even the depth of diff
Guilty and humiliation to which the American Re-
public has fallen cannot prevent her sons from
vaunting the stupendous resources which she
wieds in palopost future sense, for the destruction
of her enemies and the punishment Of all who fan
to do her homage. Alas for such boasts We have
sufficiently little fear of suffering by their Tealisa>
tion to be able to witness with sincere regret the
rdcule which is cast on them by the occurrences of
the hour