Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-08-23
Our Cause Abroad.

1t is no mere disposition TO ''believe as one
hopes which must persuade the Southern
observer of events TO believe that our cause
has found almost unanimous favor In the
eyes of foreign peoples and powers. y lie
has only to read the public journals OF the
enemy to arrive at full conviction that such
is the case. They are close searchers of the
files of their European contemporaries. to
CLEAN therefrOm any matter which may afford
them consolation and encouragement, and We
assure our readers that for months past they
have been enabled, amid the whole volumin-
Gus mass of their transatlantic exchanges, to
collect but occasional articles favorlng their
cause, and those from the columns of only
two papers, the we'll known and accredited
organs of the Exeter Hall clique of fanatics,
the only basic ct whose interest in this strug-
gle is their knowledge that it is a war against
the institutions OF the South.
This is so. The ablest, most authoritative
official and semi-oficial organs of France and
Great Britain ell vindicate the cause and
pronounce the eventual triumph of the South,
while they denounce the policy and predict
the assured overthrow of the North. Thus
they both speak the popular feeling and her.
aid the course of their governments in ref r.
ence to American affairs. There is no forced
Interpretation in this reading. as every per-
son would be convinced could we lay before
them all that We have opportunity OF seeing,
but which is excluded from our columns by
the pressing demand for admission of stirring
domestic intelligence of more immediate i'm
port. In the Cancellation of foreign counte-
nance and support, as in all things else, Pro-
violence smiles benignly upon our cause.
Many things now Indicate the proXimate
fruition which the above induces have long
tended to assure us Of We have rumors on
rumors--so much smoke as seems certainly
to indicate a fire-that the Governments of
France and Great Britain have taken or are
about to take decisive action in our favor and
adverse, to the North. The Canadian press
assures us that something is in the wind, and
assumes q very hostile tone toward the North.
The best informed correspondents of North
ern papers state that the times in their coun
tries are hourly pregnant with developments
of disastrous import TO the Lincoln Admins
tration, and the great war editors OF Gotham
plainly warn their Government that mischief
is brewing-of the imminence and degree of
which that insane Government is probably
better advised than they are. 1t refuses to
respond to the demand of its Congress to lay
before it its correspondence with European
powers; the Minister of Great Britain is
obliged to compel it to recognition of inter-
national diplomatic comfy, by demand for
his passport; and it stupidity and ridiculous
ly puts forth in its organs quasi-officiaI
threats against that power.
What our Government knows of the in
tents of European powers, its profound and
sagacious system of reticence keers hid
den until the proper time for its pcomulga-
ton arrives; but there appears 10 be some
thing in the air at Richmond which whispers
that important negotiations are in progress,
and it is comfortable to have the most entire
confidence, which that wise Government in
spires in the breast of every one, that in this
matter, as in all things else, our able Confed-
crate authorities will decide and act alike for
the interest and the honor of our country.
1t would be well for us to have the recogni-
ton of European powers, as the war would
be shortened; but we would not have our
peace and triumph purchased by the conces-
sion of the least point of honor or interest
in any negotiation for aid with aay power.
We ask no aid to handle this rampant fanati-
cism of the North. Single-handed we can
subdue and shackIe it In its confines beyond
Mason and Dixon's line; by the sword we
can win and hold our Independence; and now
that we have shown that we can do so, we
may demand our recognition>of foreign pow
ers as their equals among nations, not as the
dependents of their magnanimity.-M Mobile
Nacs.