The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-10
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The civil war, simply as such, e., Of |
course, open TO any amount of reproba- |
ton, even from men who were India |
again in revolt, would support its sup
preston by any and every means short |
of depopulaton, Misery is rarely Just, !
and the war creates among certain classes |
degree and extent of misery which !
would account for any disgust and pal
liate almost any yiruIencc. But how sem
able Englishmen, familiar.with the his
tory and incidents of the war, can draw
from them evidence Of American degen
cracY, is to us unintelligible. To us
they seem on the contrary to relieve the
Americans from some of the seyerest re-
proachcs which previously rested On
their national character
THE FACTS.
Let us look az the facts. No sooner
had the war commenced than the North
ern people, supposed to be the one which
of all others preferred material objects,
laid aside every pursuit and staked their
lives, their fortunes and their future on
war for an "idea" that idea being the
one which in England we call patriotism
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they still have the motive which iusti-
fies Italy in declaring war for Nenetia--
they fought for their national complete
ness. Believed TO be disinClined to SER
vice and incapable of discipline, they
enlisted in hundreds Of thousands, and
the Times correspondent bears witness
from the Pamunkey to their wonderful
patience and suffering which equals that
of our soldiers in the Crimea.
Supposed to be guided wholly by i'm
pulse, they answered the frightful dis
aster of Bull Run by creating a new army
and raising loans on q scale of more than
European profusion. Impatient and
fckle," they waited more than five
months for Mcclellan TO organize the
army, without abat,ng one iot Of their
purpose, or becoming even in language
more virulent against their foes. cheap
able Of self restraint" they have par
doned Mcdowell in spite Of a defeat
which risked their existence as a nation,
and upheld Mcclellan through all his
wearis0me DELAYS. A "mere mob they
| suffered the President TO postpone the
national pride to the public security, saw
the hoIeaS corpus suspended without
struggle, and gave up Mason and Slidell
| in the very midst of their Joyous ex-
! element at the capture. Worshippers
of the Almighty dollar they have
| deliberately mortgagcd the North that
the war might not be starved, and the
nation split into halves.
Without organization, aud almost with
out a government with no adequate rev
emu, and with half their own strength
in open insurreCtiOn against them, they
have fought on steadily for fourteen
months, and in Che very thick Of the con-
test have created a navy and organized
an army such as raises the Union TO the
rank of a frst-class power. And, be it
remembered in their praise they have so
fought without The excitement of success,
| have sustained defeats innumerable,
y have been compelled 70 cast aside states
man after statesman, TO see general after
general condemned as ignorant, dishon-
est, Of wanting IN fidelity to the cause.
They have done all this, too, without
revolutionary measures, without upset
ting the authority of the States, without
interfering, save for three months, with
the routine Of daily life. They are called
"vindic'ive," and SO they are in speech;
but, after fourteen months Of a rebellion
commenced by q treachcry without a
parallel, Gen. Butler was the first TO in
ilict death ON q man convicted of trea-
son. President Buchanan, ,od0se Lts III
England agidc' the sane circumstances couk
not hare jeea lC0Jih an hours purchase, lives
at Wheatland still unmolested
Amidst their crowd of new mon, one
indeed has issued orders which hav,
made his name q by-Word, but the only
charge against the remainder is that o
over lcnity. WLen France, invaded by
C0alesCed Europe, rose i'm arms, all Eu
rope admired an Outburst which was moi
in any one feature noblcr than that which
because Americans brag and are person
ally disagrceablc, we are 10 accept il
America as evidence Of degencracy. Tn
war, so far from destroying all that /
good in them, is annealing the hearts o
the Notwithstanding them, we fear
but burning out also the dross
THE GRAND PRINCIPLE AT ISSUE.
"But the war can only end in one way
+ Why not accept tho facts, and let IN
South bcgone Simply because Amer
leans are only Englishmon in their shir
sleeves, and while a hope remains the,
= cannot give way. Pluck and tenacity
however unreasonable, are not eXactl
. signs Of degencracy. " fought 70
years TO keep colonies which tue creates
I men among US declared all the time W
= should be unable 10 conquer aud thong
we recognise the folly Of our persistenc
il has not injured our national character
The North is plungiug itself in debt
True, and better so than plunge into
D. system of acquisitions which the Frenc
8 tried after exhausOng assignats, an
u without certainly much apparent degen
q eracy. They "are eatingup their future.
y We have one nevertheless, who have bit
o ten just five times as deeply into Ga
@ cake
5, America has still notincuucd a lare,
Il debt than we contracted 20 conquer an
States, though VIC had then but half th
81 American population. F" She is destroy
o. ing the source Of population" tits tru.
the waste of lie is most fearful but
must 10 any case Doe less than the dc
e structlou eau ed by the Irish famine
s catastrophe we have survived, and whic
h. too many Of as iu our secret hearts d
4 not 10 this hour regret The Unio
y has surrendered its principle. the right &
I mankind 10 choose their own form
q government That grand principle
ours also, but we are not going TO po