Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-25
THURSDAY MORNING, July 20 1861.


Influence In Europe OF the Great Is Atties
The great battle at Manassas, which has termln-
atcj so goriously fer arms is destined to exert
a marked influence on the negotiations of our Com
missioners, with the Governments Of Europe.
4 mere declaration of independence, on part,
when contested seriously by the Government Of the
Unitel States, is not sufficient to enlist the good
offices of the independent nationaides of the world.
1t matters not how great may be our resources and
how important commercial intercourse may be
with us, if we had failed to array our military
strength for the maintenance of our declarations and
to have made such demonstration as will satisfy
the world of our power to sustain ourselves in the
position, we have assumed, we should have fsIled
to secure a recognition of our Independence.
The Governments of England and France and the
leading presses of the two countries have substan
tally laid down this rule for the management of
their relations with us
It's their highest interest to secure uninterrupt-
ed commercial intercourse with US, at as early day
as practicable.
There is strong reason to believe that the British
Government has only delayed her action in order to
ascertain with reasonable probability to what
source she should look for a supply out of the
growing crop of cotton
The braggarts of the Administration have had
an eye to this condition Of affairs, and have
promised to take military possession of Memphis
and New Orleans early in the fall. 1t is probable
they have thus begged of from any immediate ac-
ton of the British Government relative to the sup
ply of cotton. They have proclaimed that the cot
ton supply for England and the continent should be
shipped from Memphis ria the Northern ports, as
soon 81 they had consummated their scheme.
But the great victory of the Confederate troops
at Manassas at once terminates all such calculations
Their grand army of 1000 men is disOrganized,
their field artillery taken their cOmmssaraE broken
upthe small prestige they had acquired ny hard brag-
ging destroyed, their loud and continuous boasting
discredited, and their officers and Government are
disgraced in the eyes of the civilized world.
So far from advancing into the South and caPtur-
ing our cotton ports it is now rendered patent that
hencefortB if they continue the war, they will be
thrown on the defensive and will have hard work
70 protect their great cities and seaPOrts from
the thun1erbolt of war which they have dared to
launch against their former brethren. Not
rhst the South has the most remote idea Of
attempting q conquest or suhjugaton Of
their Statcs Not At all Ga the cons
trary, We can assure them, froT. somewhat famil-
lar knowledge ofSouthern sentiment, that We would
not hare all or any of their States in our gloriou
Southern Confe9eracy as a free glf'. 40, we have
had enough of their hypocrisy, puritanism,
swindng and robbing, enough Of their sboltionism,
free love, Mormonism fsh-bounties and wooden
clocks. We wish hereafter to have a Confederacy,
IN which we can be homogeneous, and free from
he intermcddling Of pharisees, philanhropists,
and pedlars and can sit under our own vine and
fig tree with none to modest US.
But we shall nevertheless carry the war into
such parts Of the North gs shall make them feel its
horrors and acknowledge that we have the spirit
and the power TO maintain an Independent existence
against the combined armies Of AEaAHAI the First
and all his Gubernatorial allies, CUETIS, DENNIsON,
MORGAN * Co. In this way will we an ac-
acknowledgement Of cur independence and dissolve
the blockade of our ports if this has not already
been done by the triumph Of Southern chiyalry and
proves at Manassas.
Some fellow who pretends TO have been in Nash
willie informs the Philadelphia Bngstit that when
the news of the skirmish between a portion Of
JoTFySTox's and PATTERSON forces near MartnsbuTg
IL ,l,o, sgcause1 tho most eyfra vo0apt