Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-01-12
The british Press Pailossphiziug.

The first huff on American disunion across the
Atlantic excited the sneeTs of the British press
Slavery the point at issue, and its curailment
or abolition were principles in support of which
free England could afford to laugh TO scOrn all other
considerations This vein Of feeling lasted just
long as the impression that the South was only bull
living the North. When subsequent news, however,
demonstrated the sincerity OF the secesSonsts and
the speedy establishment of independent Cotton
Confederacy the language and sentiments Of our
British cousins materially change, and principle
gives wav to interest What philosophers those
Britons are How they can expatiate on the degTa-
dation of black slavery, and uncvlllZed edlcts in
foreign lands while the coOlie traffic and the opium
trade Weld millions to their eXchequer Let US not
logger delay printing the latest sentiments of the
Times "RetTnHg thus to our senses 10 our reason.
and to our conscience (remark J we have come to
take much queter view ofthe domestic Institutloni
We feel for the slaves but we feel also for the masters
land for Manchester? and we have satistlshed OR
selves that it does no good to the former to abuse
the latter We are aware, too. that stduery I1ds a
British 6QUcSt 10 the STATES. All these considerations
apDlv quite as much. and more nearly by several
degrees to the Northern States. May not TINS quar-
rel give way to calm in which the real diincutles
of the question will be met and quietly answered!
II Is too true that the commerce Of the United States IS
Gla03 not 0ujte as much committed TO StdUeTy as u
is 10 a5riclflue For what would New YORK be
without slavery? But what, alas! would Liverpool
and Manchester? (Ay there's the ruby What this
metropolis? Cannot all the partners OF this bust
ness put their heads together, shake hands over the
ouarrel and think what be done to mitigate
what it is difficult to abolish? Perhaps we speak to
the deaf but anything is better than dividing state
against State. house against house. ana servant
aTainst master IN the most rising nation IN the
world"
few facts and figures from statlstician
This extract comes from financial quarter:
..Wbat Is the meaning of our consumption OF
hpin
all that is produced in the United States IL means
tho animal Dayment of $50 G00.OOO to the slave
owners of that Confederation. 1t means the con
version of lisp 5000 600 pounds OF raw cotton lhIo
cI27 600 O0O value of manufactured goods IL
means the expenditure of at least Ez5 OO0OO0 IN
WAGES IN this country alone. 1t means the dePen-
dence of at least 100000 persons more, DeionShg
to various classes, upon the continuance Vi 'etI III
dustrv 1t means within a moderate esufnaIe'
canita of eI5O 900 sunk in mills and machinery
Cor weaving SHINING, printing and otherwise pre-
M ring the staDle for the markets OF the world III
means t least 900 900 tuns Of slipping employed III
conveying the raw material to Great BRITAIN anu III
carrying the manufactured article to the various re-
ons of the earth Itmeans marine force OF at leas'
10 GOO men to equip the fleet of cotton ships 1t means
the emnloyment of the of our artisans III every
department of trade and manufacture II means inc
nrosDerty of our bankers, merchants, Dlli-ulscOu'
ters and money brokers, the security OF our PuOc
funds. the maintenance of our natlohaI creGiH II
means that every man, woman ana cnu Ill 'iie oli'
ted Kingdom is directly. concerned, more or less IN
the pernanence of branch of the national INDUS
try which depends upon the produce Of Atheric .I
slavery 1t means possibility OF failure III tnI
smnnly Of raw material and in this case, lndyid-
nal and national ruin, and bankruptcy. luton,
anarchy This is the terrible Specification OF our
consumption of fve-geyenths of the slave grown
cotton of America" :.
Verify. the way to an Englshman's sense is
through his purse Touch that and there S no such
thing as principle.