Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-12-01
AMERICAN AFFAIRS IN EUROPE.
An ExsminIster OF the United States ON
the War Crisis.
Prom The London Times, November j,

- HiliO III GQlSA L
An ExsminIster OF the United States n,
the war Crisis.
-A Prom the London Times, November l. -.
j We are now favored by a communication fron
Mr.. Theodore S. Fay, late Minister Resident of tn
United States to Switzerland. The letter of Nh
Fay Is not to be compared with the absurd ans
peeTlsh uttersnces Of Mr.. Lincoln's diplomatists
and, though it carries American prolxity to tn,
furthest point we give it place, willing 10 havC
the case OF the Uniied States against England stated
| BY an adVocate Of position and experience. who is
moreover, enlightened by the events of six months
4 war.
Mr.. Fay takes as his text the dictum of Earl Rms
SELL mat IN America one side Is eontendng for en-
pire, and the other for power. Earl Russell s word
! was, no doubt, Independence, y for though the
/ struggle Of the South before secession was for
power, which the North in its anxiety for empire
! was willing 70 eoneede, yet at the PRESENTING no
one can suspect that the Confederates are fighting
! to regain authority in restored Union - .
| But this does not affect the subject of Mr. FavJs
letter, " len ls detense Of the North from the
charge OF contending merely for empire Accord
ing to him. the opinion Of Earl Russell is wholly
wrong, and shows peryersity Of Judgment which
oaght to be rebuked. Yet Earl Russell does not
stand alone in it Mr.Fay has much FAINT TO
ind With every one on this side of the Atlantic Ths
English press almost without an exception the Eng
hsh people and not only these but also the ContI-
mental society are in state of criminal error ON
Christians sympathising with Satan, and giving no
encouragement to the North in the hottest of cru,
sades. A hundred presses in England and the
Continent join in the hue and cry against the United
States Government, and applaud and cheer on the
reoeB as victims of prosecutions entitled to Hyrnpa-
thy. We had hoped that the grand apocslypnc
meaning of the struggle low going on in America
and elsewhere between the enemy Of mankind
and that High and Lofty One who came to
bTuise his head would be understood by the
Christians of all nations y &c. But it is not under
stood. -F.aF ...- --H-'-.- ..
Everywhere people are Indifferent to the event
of this great Armageddon, or, if they take any part
il is against the heavenly hosts of the Northern
States. This is the deplorable state of European
opinion, and it calls for gifted preacher to change
it. Mr. Fay therefore, thinks himself entitled TO
considerable space in our columns But it would /
have been as well it. before bringing hard charges /
agsinst Lord Russell, he had asked himself how i'll
IS that all Europe agrees with thst Minister The
tee tmoDy of Mr.. Fay is valuable when he admit, |
that not EDgland alone, which might be supposed 10
be animated by spirit of rivalry, but those Euro
pean communities which have been usually opposed
to England and friendly TO the Great Republia are
of opinion that this is an unWise and bootIess war
and that the Confederate States with several mill
ions OF inhabitants and vast territory have right
to government Of their own. Our Foreign Secret
tary has only come to the conclusion as those
Frenchmen who elped to WIN American indepsnd- !.
ence. az those Germans who are peopling American
territory, as those Swiss whose Constitution was
before the eyes of the first American Iegislators
What, then, has seized the European world? Why
this league in favor Of Antichrist? How is it that
England, which has SACRIFICED so much 10 abolish
slavery, should sympsthizs with sLaveowners that
France, which has twice within eighty years estab
lished Republican Government should look with
favor on those who have broken up a Republic?
The reasons must be powerful which influence so
many and such various minds but Mr.. Fay, like
the rest of his countrymen, is blind to them and
can see in those who oppose him only the willing
allies Of evil, ttl 7-.1-.-- ----..- -
The object of the Northern apologfsts is to re- '
present the war as wsgedTagsinst negro slavery l
These gentlemen have one language for their own 7
country and one for Europe. While in America d
he President declares that he intends to maintain
he South IN al its constitutional rights and while
avery one knows that the seceders might come back
o-moFrow with ALL and more than all their former .
lights we are told on this side of the Atlantic that
he war is for the roofing out of an acursed thing
md that our sympathies ought to be in favor Of h
hose who are fighting the battle of human rights
This, then is the question: Whether the carried
N by the North is merely to restore the Republic
With all the old compromises to save territory and
ower at the expense o. principle, as Mr.. Lincoln
nd Earl Russell declare; oriwhether it be to es- ,
ablish republic free from slavery, as some writ L
rs in Europe affect to think. With respect to the
asst Mr.. Fay is eloquently penitent. To all the -
harges brought against America he pleads guilty,
ttributing the misdeeds to slavery. Slavery he e
ays has delivered up the Government to sdventu- "a
ers; it has impelled the people into foreign war .
nd awakened rabid appetite for annexation. Il ID
as sent abroad bands of ibusters and pirates; it
"bent our foreign policy out of its natural up
lghtness, and thus given just ofense to your own ~
nd other governments" it has dishonered the at
gislativs halls with representatives. whose chief 90
Publications were love Of slavery hatred of free az
ignorance of religion, and ski in the L
Sc Of the horse whip, bowie knife and revolver 1t nc
as carried corruption into every department. of hC
lie Government. In short, it is thing to be got "
d of speedily and forever. 81
Bat now we come to the answer which all Eu lie
1pe with one mouth viii make to Mr.. Fay "You IN
ave got rid Of it and we congratulate you" The u
secession of the slave States takes away from the "a
orth all this violence and injustice and basphe- nc
ous teaching about the Scrfptural sanction of co
avery, and confines them to portion of their for nc
er dominion. The point which Englishmen think VI
ley clearly is that the recognition of the Con "a
derate States and peaeeable separation from %
lem will accomplish everything which the ants "a
avery party has been advocating for years These he
d not desire the emancipation of the negroes at
e South. But they opposed the extension of mi
avery in the Northern Territories, and division -
ould close all the Northern territory to slavery RI
rever. 1t must be remembered that at present ini
at constitution for which the North is fighting re
YES the STAKEHOLDER the right to carry his slaves tn
ght up to the British frontier, if he pleases an
avery is decided TO be normal institution Of the tai
public. Any territory may be invaded by dri- sit
rs with gangs of negroes and when it becomes tot
ate It becomes with slavery unless there be an En-
Ipress decision to the contrary. All this would en-
me to an end by seDaration for the slave Statas b