Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-03-31
Our s5uthsrn confeaeracy In Eaglana Eua
Erances--Hixhly Bmportans News.

From the New York Herald.
1t ls not only very remarkable coincidence, but
very significant fact that the 4th Of March, the
day which ushered our new administration At
Washington in power, Mr.. Gregory, in the British
House Of Commons gaze notice thai on dnearty day
hesooud cdR dle attention Of her Mglestys government
10 The erpediencv of prompt recognition of The 6olh-
crR sConfedcrGcy of Anlerjca !" Thus, while from
Washington the indissoluble character OF our old
Union of November last was proclaimed to the
world its disruption was formally announced in the
British parliament and with the view to the official
recognition of that independent government set up
at Montgomery, Ala, which Mr.. Lincoln's admins.
tration theoretically ignores.
Mr. Gregory is from Galway, and director, we
believe in the company running the line of steamers
between that port and New York. He hal doubt
less been considering the subject to which he
refers in its commercial aspects, and we are free
to conclude that his proposition Is from con-
vlction that the great interests of British CAPT
tahsts in American trade will be best subsery>
ed by /" prompt recognition of our South
ern Confederaey. Perhaps Mr.. Gregory has
also an idea of establishing a line Of steam
ers to ply directly between Galway and some Of
our Southern ports; but in any event, his PROPOSE
ton shows that the new revolutionary government
of our seeded States is beginning to be understood
ndappreclated among the ruling commercial classes
of the British islands, and they recognise the expe>
dieucy of adapting themselves to the new order OF
things amonst us. 1t further appears that "a spe-
cial messenger from the British legation at wash
ington sailed in the CuDard steamer from Boston on
Wednesday with dispatches for the British govern
ment giving full statement of affairs at Washing
ton and in the South also, copies of the two tariffs
.sThe two tariffs" Here we have that last parcel
which breaks the camels back. We have shown
that between the prohibitory duties of our new
Northern tariff and the very low scale of duties of
the tariff of the Confederate States. every draw
back exists which is calculated to drive away for
eign trade from our Northern ports; and every in
Al
foreign trade to the ports Of the South. The Lon
don Times declares that the European operation of
our Morrill, tariff law will be the almost abso-
lutte suspension of "all imports into the United
States from England, France and Germany, that it
is measure calculated at once to ALLEVIATE foreign
nations" and that from the pressure of said law
upon foreign Powers the arguments of President
Jefferson Davis, in favor of his Southern Confede>
-acy Swill receive an enormous accession of force
Depend upon 1t, that when England discovers her
old markets closed in our Northern States against
her, and new and more inviting ones opened in the
South she will not be long in discovering her line
of policy.
Next we find that the organs of public opinion in
France are beginning to comprehend the CONNER
cal issues involved in this disruption of our late
Union, and in this "irrepressible conflict the tariff
question between the North and the South. The
Paris M0niteT says that this new (MorrilD tariff
should be of the first sacrifices made for the
cancellation of the South; otherwise Europe will
end by seeing only fortunate event in separation
which she at first deplored and it will become not
only right, but duty for us (France) to recog-
Mise the independence of the new confederacy."
The Constitutional broadly intimates that if things
should continue as they now stand between the
North and the South in reference to foreign imports
European trade and sympathy must inevitably be
diverted to the Southern States, IN spite of their
slavery system and proslavery institutions.
From the movements and manifestations of pub
lie opinion in England and France, thus grouped to-
gether the reader will perceive that the idea of the
recognition by those great Powers of the independ
ent government of the Confederate States has al
ready lost the character of a miserable delusion.
The statesmen, leaders, organs and orators of the
anti-slavery party now In power at Washington
have been boastfully ringing it into our that
no commercial considerations could induce England
or France to recognize this Montgomery govern
ment, organized as it is, upon the basis of human
slavery. But these philosophers forget that the
government of the Uuited States was founded and
recognized has continued and still exists upon this
basis of slavery. The differences now existing upon
this subject between the Constitution Of the United
States and the Constitution of the Confederate
States, both Lord falmerston and Louis Napoleon,
we dare say, would pronounce as of no consequence
whatever to England or France.
French and English abolition philanthropy would
have reyolted against our Southern Confederaey had
it declared itself in favor of the revival of the Afri
can slave trade. This was the point to which that
philanthropic member of Parliament, Mr.. Buxton,
addressed his spprehensions of this Southern pro-
slavery revolution. But Monsieur Galairdet of the
Paris Presse writing from that city, says that the
Southern Confederacy, prohibiting the slave trade,
has forestalled tho moral opposition of Europe"
We have no doubt of it. England and France, par
tcularly with their extensive cotton manufactures
dependent for the material upon the slave labor
of our seeded States, have become too practical
in the science of good government to be controlled
by their anti slavery distractions when the subsst
ence of millions of their people is at stake.
We are drawn, therefore, and irresistibly, to this
conclusion that Mr.. Lincoln's administration must
prepare for the speedy abandonment of this Nor
r tariff bill. for the recognition of the Hdepend
ence of the Confederate States under the pressure
of their recognition by England and France.