The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-09-05
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FRIDAY MORNING sEPr. :, 1899.
Tora..n InlerEenIIan.


The flrst months OF this war saw the
South acting upon the offensive on every
part Of its grand theatre. She was lit
tle embarrassed for some time by that as
tonishinglY conservative temper Of her
people which made them 10th 10 abandon
a Union which she had expended much
effort to establish, but which had for a
long time been made the instrument OF
Infinite insuli robbery, wrong and injus.
iice upon her. In spite Of this sentiment
the South assumed the aggressive, and
maintained it successfully for The full
period of six months IN the first stages of
the war.
Sine then He iSoml has he7d a more ht-
initiating aititads. she has Tdcoede} fom
me boundary ywlich she had marfoi oW Jor
The Cs15eisrdcy--sbe has reiyeQtai aHd
sRrRak back at heapprOdch Of ne enemy; and
it is only very lately that she has begun
10 act again, in aggression, her true line
of policy. lr il were asked what was the
secret Of this change of attitude, after
period of fighting in which she had won
every battle, it could be replied with
truth that it was owing 10 this fact more
Than TO any other whatever, that she was
lulled into remissness of preparation and
relaxation Of effort by a fatal delusion
which seized her rulers and Legislators
that the great European Powers, Great
Britain at their head, were about TO in
terfere to coerce a cessation OF hosGlities.
Sickened by long deferred hope, the
public has lost to some extent, its reli-
ance upon this interference; but il is
strange how eagerly the public and OIL
cial mind even now turns with fond con-
iidence 10 every rumor that comes bear
ing this promise from across the Allan
tic.
Considering the sad face that vain
reliance placed upon the war for several
months, and the humiliatiOns, defeats,
and prodigious losses it brought upon The
country, il becomes the duty of the press
to protest, with emphasis and reiteration,
against a further indulgence Of hope for
any other termination Of this war than
shall be effected by the energy Of her
goyerRmert, tho yisor. ~ her policy and
the resistles prowess Of her armies.
If we shall succeed in neradicating from
the public mind every seed of this fatal
hallncinaiion, and in bringing govern
mcnt and people TO rely only upon the
power of their own armies for independ-
ence and peace, we shall have performed
an essential service; for, even though the
policy and measures founded upon such
trust should turn out to be unnecessary
still our case would be fortunate for il
reflects infinitely more credit upon ma
ton 60 be prepared for conflict that may
never come, than be unready for an emer-
gcncy which may tax all its powers.
Such is The condition Of European pol
itics that the great powers Of that CONT :
nent cannot safely venture TO enter upon
any important policy without the coop
Grafton Of all the rest from which fact
it follows, in our case, that il 80 control
ling Power as Great Britain be found
ayerse in sentiment or opposed in inter-
est TO tho termination Of the existing war,
| the interference of other European Powers
in behalf Of peace could only be after
q long period Of delay and hesitation.
! That the interests OF Great Britain are
opposed to an early cessation Of the
American war ia a proposition that has
been made, and can be made as often as
necessary very plain. II has been point
ed ont in these columns what tremen
dous stake that government has in de-
str0ying the cotton culture in the South.
This can be done most efectuAlly and
most summarily By overthrowing onr
system Of labor; and accordingly, in
order to prove the existence Of this deter
mination Of Great Britain to compass, Il
possible, the overthrow Of Southern pros
perity and power, 10 is only necessary Ia
remind our people Of some of the many
/ conspicuous occasions she has seized 10
exhibit her hostility TO our labor insti-
tuition.
Her war upon slayery--Or rather
slavery in the Southern States, for slave
ry in Brazil she patronizes, and slavery
/ in Cuba she tolerates-has been Of more
than thirty years continuance. Her
policy has been shrewd and systematic
| in the extreme.
To give the color Of sincerity, she
/ abolished slavery in the West indies
| trifing matter at best-With immense
parade and osientation, sacrificing her
/ little interests there 10 the great ones al
home and in her other colonies. As soon
| As loahlDle Nlt war WAS NAiAicA Ahll
America. English emissaries were senl
over into the non -slayeholding States "a
educate their people into the same holy
horror into which she had previously
worked herself These emissaries came
not empty-handed, but brought an abun-
dance Of English gold 10 hire assistants
defray expenses, purchase presses and
keep them running. Never, perhaps, die
emissaries work with more energetic per
severance. Their oraiorioal hOWls over
"the horrors of slavery" were sent up a
all points of the free States which they
were allowed 10 Wait. Their presses
running night and day, scattered the viii
fabricatiOns Of English abolitiOnism oyel
the land. They, il is true, found Amer
lean helpers in their Internal work; bu
wherever a gang Of these itinerant ab
olitionisis were found, an Englishmar
was their leader. English gold paid theil
unholy wages and English ohicanery di
rected their labors. Their early eilort
were not encouraging, since, In 1874
dozen years after the crusade commenced
aud after spasmOdie appeals 10 supper
Birney, an abolition candidate, sgaina