Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-10
Opinions Of Forelgn Powers.

That Europe is not an uninterested spectator o.
affairs in America, and JhGt the interests and there
fore the sympathies of her Government are all on
the Southern side is freely admitted says the Rich
mOnd Dispatch by the whole Northern press
Whilst some of our own people are disposed to
think that Europe has no parti ,lities for either
belligerent, the New York HraH publishes state
ment Of declarations which have bsen made since
the commencement Of hostilities, by different for.
eign powers, in relation to the at ue of the States
towards each other, which, in its opinion, virtually
prsjudices the whole question at iasue between
North and South England led off in the procla
maEion, last Nay, of Queen VICroR1I, eckno wledg
ing the right of Southern traitors and rebels to
be considered "belligereDts." France followed in
June, with declaration of neutrality nd an i'm
perial decree against priTateering Prussia at the
same time, took the opportunity of urging the Uni
ted States to accede to the treaty Of 1856 Even
the letter of Prince GoRrscHAKoEF written in July
is conceded by the Herald to be @patronizing this
country generally and instruetng cur statesmen
how and when they should bring the civil war to
q close"
Thus it viii be seen that even the Russian mani
festo about which that spawned old rhetoricIan.
EDWARD EVERETT. has written one of his prosiest
productions in BoNNER's Ledger, Is regarded by LIN
oOLEs leading organ in New York as every intelli-
CERT man in the South pronounced it at the time,
vague declaration of friendship for both countries
instead Of "aid and comfort to the North as the
byperborean and hyperbolieaI contributor to Box.
NEE absurdly supposes Next came the Queen of
SPAIN who issued proclamation of neutrality for
bidding enlistment by Spanish subjects on either
side, and denunciatory Of privateeriug. This was
followed by similar decree from the King of Por-
tugal. Thus complains the HerGd, all Of the |
principal European Powers have deemed the eff Irts
that are being made by this country to suppress |
rebellion, fitting occss ion to make an exception /
to the usual rules observed by dplomatists in re.
latiOn to rnbeHion and civil war, and to present /
their opinions to the world. Instructions have
taken place in Ireland, Italy, France, Germa
ny, Hungary, Bosnia, ard POLAND without sign |
Of appreciation disapprObstion the part Of the
of the various foreign nations O5lerv-
ing events closely they have nevertheless abstaned
from official comment, while events here have
startled them from their reserve, and caused them
10 break ferth into manifestations, which in
otber cases, would have been considered inde-
,orous."
1t is absurd to comment upon the wilful blud-
hess which viii not acknowledge the difference be
Ween the withdrawal of sovereign Safes from the
I'D Union, and rebellion against an authority
acknowledged to be supreme. Suffice it that the
whole civilized world, according to the HsTaLd's
sees that question in the Southern and
states Rights point of view and that nation un-
ler Heaven, except the North, which, in nuifying
he Fugitive Slave Law led the way in rebellion,
considers the South traitors and rebels" We
ave the opinions the sympsthies and the interests
# all Christendom on our side, and shall, perhaps,
efore long, have its active cooperation. a