Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-30
The Sentiment of Europe.

The Sentiment of Europe.
Notwithstanding the formal and authorita.
tire announcement of Secretary of State
Seward to the European Powers last Spring.
that such thing as the recognition of two
governments on this continent where only
one had previously existed, could not
be thought of for moment; it is evident the
sentiment in favor Of an early recognition of
. the independence of the Southern Confedera-
cy, is rapidly growing in Europe. Some of
the most influential journals CT Eagland and
France, now openly take the position that of
The ultimate recognition of The South there
can be no doubt, and therefore the sooner the
European governments take action in the
matter the better for all concerned. We
have published several extracts from English
papers recently, and in nearly all of them
/ the conclusions arrived at are tue same. In
consequence of the fact that the people of
Europe have been accustomed to receive their
impressions of Southern men and Southern
institutions through Northern sources. the
true state of things at the South is very i'm
perfectly understood abroad. English journ-
alists cannot disabuse their minds of the i'm
preston, received from Northern abolition
lists. that the institu ton of slavery, as it ex-
lists at the South, is barbarOus institution,
and a source of positive weakness in the
present contest; it appears impossible to
make them believe otherwise than that the
negroes among US are pining for their free
dom, and that proclamation from Lincoln
emancipating them would create u general
insurrecton. There is one thing which all
understand, however, and that is that the
South is winning nearly all the battles, and
is thus rapidly proving to the world their
ability to maintain their own independence
without asking recognition or favor from
any one. On this latter point the London
Reuie,c says:
"The North may be assured of one thing,
which is. that if the war lasts much longer,
and the South continues to win ali the bat
| ties, the Kingdoms aud States OF Europe
| and Great Britain among the number--will
| be compelled to recognize the Southern Con-
federation as DE- facto Government. In our
| day, Governments cannot listen to debates
! upon the de jure when the de fdcto is before
| them, for il they did, they would be engaged
| in a succession of wars. The King of Italy
| is recognized by Englrnd and France, because
| his Kingdom is fact; and the Southern Con-
federation bids fair to be acknowledged on
the same principle" -
The Reuiew takes the position that the
| Southern States had right to secede from
| the Union; that the South had IS many inhe-
rited rights as the North, and there was no
treason or disioyalty in their withdrawal.
| It says:
1.-THE North may continue to talk of the
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word is IS ,umption of a prior as well as
| greater right which ceased TO exist. If it ever
| existed at all, at the very moment when the
| South found itself strong enough to deny and
| repudiute it. In fact the tate of affairs is
what the South truly calls it-a secession.
| And, however much the North may fegret
| the contamination, and struggle to avert 1t,
| there will be heuceforward two Confedera-
| tons, instead OF the once great Republic OF
the United States.3
| The worst feature of the war; in the esti-
| nation of the ReUieaU, is not that the North
| has lost nearly every battle in which it has
| engaged, or that the country is divided into
| two COnfederaces, with fair prospect of a
third, but it is the loss of liberty, the most
inestimable privilege of a people. Such has
| been the blighting influence of the contest
| upon the Northern people that they seem
perfectly willing TO enslave themselves if
they can succeed in enslaVing the South
The Repsssg says.
Liberty no longer exists in the Northern
half Of the Republic. Military law, by q
stern and invincible necessity, rides rough
shod over the civil law whenever the two
come into collision. Congress,--in a panic
which it mistakes for vigor-VOtes away
without comment, the dearest rights of the
people; oVerthrown by q vote that is almost
unanimous. and that would be entirely so
were there not a few secessionists still left
among its members, all the securities that
formerly guarded the purse or person Of the
citizen; squanders money with reeklessness
that has never been equaled in the worst wars
of the Old World; and, in all its doings, gal
lOps at such a pace as TO suggest to Ameri-
cans, as we'll as to Europeans, that the
day of Sictator is at hand--of a dictator
who will make permanent that deprivation
, of liberty which is now alleged to be tempo
rary'
H. "a 49, 80
sci. 1t has not yet suffered enough to learn
wisdom, but the day will cone when every
man at the North will bitterly regret that
! secession was not accepted as an accomplish
, ed fact. This is shown in the article from
which we have quoted, and the North is told
that ''whether conquering or conquered, it
will feel the grip of the oppressor around
It's neck. and awake too late, to the sorrow
; full conviction that it once possessed the sub
stance of freedom, aud let it slip out of its
grasp when catching at q shadow-that
shadow being the subjugation of their friends
and brothers, separated from them by neces-
, stiles growing out of climate, character aud
material interests, and not out OF ambition
or desire Of dominion"
The North will not like the comparison OF
, Lincoln to George III, aud if there are any
friends of the deceased monarch still living,
we are sure but they will have an equal right
to complain. The place of Lincoln in history
is fixed. Much as the English King played
the fool and tyrant, he never succeeded in
covering his soul so completely with infamy
, as has the man whom the Northern people
recognize as their President. In the case OF
the former there were some extenuating cir
cumstances, but the latter has nothing to re-
lieve him from the odium aud disgrace he
has and will incur. He will doubtless perse-
we're in the course he has adopted until the
North is completely beaten, Inundated and
disgraced; until every ves'ige OF Republican
institutions shall have disappeared from the
| States over which he rules, and then, when
| his miserable career is ended. he will sink
, | beneath the contempt of the civilized world
and be remembered even by his own people
onlS with loathing and execration.-Ao
go0asyy Advertiser.
), THE FoRT on FEDERAL Hull, BALTIMORE.