Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1855-1861, 1861-04-20

Probability of the successful negotiaf{y1
loan of fifteen millions of dollars, soon toy
issued by the Confederate States of Amcris
in this market, and offering to our house t6v0
agency of that Government for tn 2 purpose. =.
We feel duly honored by the offer you hav&~
made, but in the present condition of things
!, in your country we must respectfully decline
your proposition. ..s
We are no. in the habit Of accepting PROD
! ostions of this nature from persons unknown
10 ne, and as we never had the favor Of any
previous communication from you, and do
not know anything of the character and
standing of your house, we feel justified IL
| declining your offer.
As to any success of your Confederaied
loan-as you please to term tin the Lon
4 don money market, we advise you at once to
abandon all hope or expectation on that
point The people here have already suffered
losses enough in the taking of the bonds of
Florida, Mississippi, Ecuador, Pernambuco,
Patagonia, Arkansas, and other of I'd r
s.Gulph States" and they do not, at present,
feel inclined to renew their acquaintance with
YOU again in money matters, on the generous
terms heretofore proposed-even if you we're
not, as you now are, in open rebellion against
the legitimately constituted Government Of
the United States.
We therefore repeat that you can have no
success here, in London, in the negotiationof
your proposed loan. Our senior had an in
of your letter, and he assured him that it is
the unanimous determination of Her Majee-
tvs Government to discourage any effort on
the part of the G. S. A. to procure money
here, AID you may rely upon it that she is in
earnest
1t is lamentable that person of your ap-
= parent financial sagacity could entertain, for
a moment, an idea that the security to be
c offered for the loan by the &C. S. A" would
enable you to negotia tie it here, and by Eng
u lishmen too, who have the greatest ahSPr-
renee of dishonesty.
The mortgage you propose upon the RS,
arsenals, custom-houses, minis, and all 9TH
e er property which has "falen into your pos
: session." is Intensely ludicrous. How this
property fell into your hands we are informed
papers, but we have no idea that our
;. money shall fall into your hands withoutsome
). better ple"scs than the ones you propose.
the hedge of the faith iiisida and honor his
sissippi, are equally ridiculous. Indeed, all
!, persons to whom have exhibited your let
ter regard the proposition as the best joke OF
. the season, and propose to get mp farce al
~ Dreary Lane Theater, to be entitled "The G.
S. A., or New Way to Secure New Debts"
:. The fact is, if your banking house is not a
&c fceatious c.earion, then we conclude that its
~ head is destitudc of those principles which
IL would justify us in holding further c9pmu-
nication with him.
q A few words more, and we shall conclude
- all We have to Say on the subject. q.
Vi The British people can have no confidence
VI in a government to the head of which is q
man who approved and justified the vilest
reputation of State faith and honor OF re.
cord.
re We have his written and printed declara
s. tons of the fact, and we are perfectly cog
in infant of all the circumstances connected
a. with that violation, we feel at liberty to in
"A vite your closest attention to it, and nov
4 = e.
al and the reports of popular meetings sus-
he tanning such decisions. The judges WHIT
A. made them, the popular orators who sustain
&C ed them, have since been Governors, dplo
by matte representatives to Europe, and last ant
f. least, one of them is President of Conf.d
IL Grated Government that deludes itself will
he an idea that vegetable fibre, which no Amer
N. lean can eat, is the pabulum upon which
he Englishmen feed land which sustains then
and keeps them all-noblcmen, and peasant
H. -frcm the workhouse. There's pluck enoug
es IN England l,ft, thank Heaven, to live withou
to slave cotton and to refuse &c. S. A" bonds.
nd We can hardly end here; for We have some
n thing more TO say, and therefore extend GU
al correspondence with banker, ''the characte
v and credit of who Sc house we have no in
n, form alton Of" Let us add:
60 There is nothing SO revolving to an Eng
i'm lishman's loyalty as treason. There is moth
nd ing SO objectionable to him the guilt @
he him who could fire on his countrys's flag.
re We have the assurance that one Morga
.ts did that deed. Had he been elected Presi
H. dent of c. S. A. We should not have bee
tv surprised, all that is true and loyal to
nv nation seems to have met the same fate as tn
claims of the British bondholder of Missit
m. sippi and Florida. But the race is not to tn
Sc swift. Regulators are honored where trai
los ors are neglected.
fyou do not regard our opinions with r.
h. spect, send your loan to some plant bank'
an here; and learn, as very soon you Will, II
me- value of honesty and the opinion of OF
9TH eoH" W,:.a' en
m. SLOPE & Co,
,ck bankers, honoon,
DISuOpS&Nte OtIccG w lSnlu.