Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-03-21

FEELINGS OF A S0UTHERNER IN EUROPE
We are permitted to publish the following inter.
esting letter from Southerner, now in CONSTANT.
nople to gentleman in this State:
CONsTANTNoPIE, Feb. 9th, 1860
My Dear Dlunington FL again take my pen tc
write you few lines but how changed are the cir
cumstances IN which our country is now placed and
when last addressed you Almost alone as am
you may imagine my feelings in this far distant
country, the tardy weekly steamer brings me its
budget Of startling news from America.
am in position TO hear the comments which are
at this remote point freely made upon the great
question now at issue in the United States.
The rage of the English Abolitionists aad leading
politicians know no bounds, when they speak or
write of the Secession of the Southern States and
| the formation Of " THE REPUBLIC OF COLJJM-
BIA." They say that they have labored for thirty
years and have expended millions of their treasure
to bring the public mind of the world and especial
ly of the Northern States of the Federal Union TO
contemplate with horror the Institutions of the
South. They boast through their leading journals
and especially through the great London Times that
TO the influence and power and active exertons of
Great Britain the Abolition party has at LAST gained
| the ascendancy in the Government of the Union
They say that will " have the effrontery TO
deny this fact. And now when their hopes were
upon the point of fruiton behold the Secession.
and probable speedy formation of 4 new and homo
genious Republic, bursts up before them and post
pones to an Indefinite period the reward which they
believed TO be already within their grasp. You
may imagine then, with what vehemence they urge
the North TO maintain at all hazards the Union as If
is-tO make no compromise whatever, but to carry
out their pledges to England and the civiIised world
to make the United States all free or all slave
and if necessary to "sabdue the reoolted provinces
Of the South, " by FIRE and the swordi
Every English journal ofprominence is filed with
the odious and scandaous SANDERS against the
Southern people. The London Times which hates
the Irish above all the people of Europe saws that
the governing classes of the South are as ignorant
as the Irish peasantry." They all say that brutall-
ty is a characteristic feature of Southerners and
that the lower classes even below the slaves in
virtue and intelligence. One is overwhelmed with
indignation upon reading these scandalous libels
upon truth. Not word of contradiction is allowed
to appear in the English prints.
You may rely upon it. that England will urge the
North, by all the means at her command, to subdue
the South by arms, and carry outts solemn pledges
in the face of the world provide for the gradual
extinction of slavery.
The English politicians freely admit that they can
never compete with the South in TropicaI produc-
tons, long slavery is maintained in the South
and they say also, (which Is but too true) that if
they can, through the instrumentaity of the North
ern States, break down that odous Institution Eng
land through her vast Asistc possessions, will at
once supply the deficiency thus oecasioned in these
productions and will once more become the un-
questioned mistress of the world!"
Europe believes that the doom of the South has
been already pronounced. Intelligent men saw that
the Southern States remain in the Union, the North
will carry out Its pledges and abolish slavery; and
if they form separate Coniederaey that they will
be subdued by the armies of the North, with the
aid of serTie instructions and that in or out of
the Union, the South must fall That the power of
the Republic has passed away forever, and that
after the North shall have been exhausted in fight
ing The battles of England against the South that
Great Britain will be obliged to resume her protec>
ton the American States in order to save civili-
ton in that continent.
There is also another party, both in England and
IN Europe, who earnestly pray for the peace and
prosperity of the South, but these are the middle
and lower classes. who are dependent upon cotton
for their maintenance and daily bread. Their voice
Is never heard or needed by the governing classes
until the approach of starvation drives them to
madness. When that moment arrives they compel
their masters to hear them ] am too far removed
from the United States to know all that ia passing
Ny latest news is ordinarily thirty days old when
receiTeit but can see clearly that the South is
not mistaken in surprising that it has arrived at the
turning point OF Its destiny would give all that
have in this world TO secure Union of the States
upon such terms as would be just to ALL and guar
antee the freedom of each; but under the Constr |
tuition of the old Union, Great Britain seemed upon
the point of achieving the greatest victory she has
ever wen, without firing gun or losing man in |
battle. |
sincerely trust that if the Southern States should
form pew Confederacy that they will in no wise |
humiliate themselves by submitting to restraining
conditions in seeking her recognition of the new |
Government Great Britain is to-day more deep |
" chagrined at the secessIqn movement than |
our own Northern States-because she believes |
hat between her, and an acknowledged ST.
oremsoy over the world, there stands but one |
yreat impediment and that is the peaceful cultiva
ion of the fields of the Southern States by slave
abor.
May Heaven grant that, If the South and the |
North cannot agree to live together as family,
Ip0n equal terms they will disappoint the expects
ions of heir enemies and the fears of their friends
W q peaceful SeDo,dtioa