Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-11
Tine Feeling Abroad.


That there has been great change of sentiment
in England and France regard to the prospects of
the people of the Southern Confederacy succeeding
in achieving their independence, there can be no
doubt; and il is equally certain that the current of
popular sympathy in both Of those countries is set
ting stronger and stronger towards our young aud
vigorous Republic. The altered tone of the fersgn
press affords abundant evidence that the hearts of
the English and French people warm towards Us in
our gallant struggle to establish our Freeiom-to
rid ourselves of the grinding, toedd, detestabls
tyranny Of Abraham Lincoln, the most odlous. the
most Hateful tyrsaHy that merciful God ever
inflicted or people since government upon earth
began.
This change of sentirlent is particularly cbserv-
able in France, where our cause at the initiation
of our Revolution was far from being popular
That gallant nation have become Disguised at the
ridiculous vaporings magniloquent boastings, empty
threats and arrznt lies of our Northern enemies
and excited to admiration BY the brilliancy of our
achievements in the field, they eheerfully yield to
u.s. recent private accounts from france are reIi-
able the highest credit and heartily wish US success
The public journals of the country although being
under the censorship Of the Government, are nee
essariy guarded ia their expressions now and then
betray feelings Of sympathy fer u.s. and strongly
insinuate their belief in the impOssibility Of our
subjugatlOn. Several of them indulge in extended
comments upon HcCullOchs victory at Oak Hill
and notwithstanding their accounts of that Qlorous
battle received through the distorted media of
the Northern press, they eYinee q pretty full and
correct comprehension Of the Importance of the
Confederate forces.
"This new defeat, says the Paris Co1lstilutOnesl
"wil produce bad effects for the North because il
will turn away de6nitiVey many of the populations
now undecided Ii Is certain that the Federal Gov
ernmeHt hSd been counting On signal revenge.
which it has greatly desired ever since Bulls Run
Thea the Constitutional proceeds to give a pro
gramme of the campaign as designed by Fremont
descent Of the Mississippi TO New OrleRns-cut>
ting the levees, so to bring Louisiana to reason
by laying II under water, etc.-snd intimates with
some slight color Of irony, that this campaign
though in design grand. may, in execution be at
tended with certain difficulties. Then the Journal
st gives biography of Gen. Eyon, and adds: IF
it be true that Generals Price and McCul och have
fallen on the field with Lyon the Confederates
will have no less regret than their adTersares bar
we must remember that all that rests only on a
telegrsphic dispatchi and American kilograms ever
since the troubles began, have always been such |
that you can believe bat half Did they not an |
n0unee to us that Gen. Johnston fell 81 Bulls hun
That brave officer has just been showing round his
Imperial HiRhness, Prince Napoleon over the very
ground under which people believed he had been |
buried 4"
Some of the French journals begin to exhibit |
some Impotence TO have an end put to this most |
ridiculous crusade Of which they already foresee
the quite certain termination, the defeat and humi
iatiOn of the North, and ultimate establishment Of
two or more Confederacies. "lt lies upon Mr. Lin- /
cOln." says lie Temps, mos to hasten his prepare
tiOns and redeem these disssters-if he Il able
And there is time to loose; for il this war is to
go OH much longer, those nations which consume 1
and Francs-vilI begin to suffer |
for the want Of it, aud they must exercise certain
pressure upon the course Of events with a view of
trade and commerce.
But will England and France bring to bear |
this pressure upon the course of events with /
view Of reopening trade and commerce" with |
this country! We have lost all hope of their /
doing so, at least for some time TO come They
will, we feel confident, exhaust every means Of |
their manufacturing populations, suf-
fering from the want of Ogr Cotton and Tobacco,
ere they will actively interfere ~ Aneriesn af-
airs. The notorious inefrcieney Of the blockade
afforded them good snd valid excuse for opening
bur ports to their commerce, asd yet they have
aiken steps tending TO that result, and will not,
n ali probability, until they compelled to do
10 for their own projection. England and France
IRE too jealous and suspicious IT eseb other to act
n concert. and too MUCH afrGi6 OF each othRr 10
yet separately, IN matter of this kind, and the
ooner we disabuse our minds of tie idea of foreign
sooner we cast aside all reliance
lpon foreign ad-the better it viii be fer US. The
English and French people may warmly sympa-
kizs with US, but their governments are soulless,
re governed alone by considerations of policy and
ave no feeling in common with gallant young ma
ion struggling for liberty.