The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-09-05

Clay and Polk, both slavoholdera--ihe
succeeded IN polling but forty thousand
votes out OF a total Of q million and three
quarters al the North But England was
not the nation 10 be discouraged. She
had expended but a dozen years upon an
object ahe esteemed cheap al n ccntury's
effort. She felt she had scattered the
seed Of abolitionism over broad area
and had only 20 cultivate Il assiduougly
10 reap, ia due time an abundant harvest
Aud that harvest has since been most as
siduously cultivated by Engllah speeches,
English cditOriala, Englioh sermons, hng
lish essays, and English aciions--public
and private. We all recoiiect how, a few
years ago, at the Worlds Convention, the
Americans present were iusultcd by Lord
Brougham's exulting introduction Of a
reverend" negro. How, at the WoJlds
Fair Of 1852, on ono OF the gala days,
a beautiful and titled young English
lady marched up the aisle. in the imme-
diatc presence Of the Queen, leaningupon
the arm Of black and hJtrly runaway
negro, while the wife Of The latter leaned
also lovingly upon the arm OF Me- Thomp-
son, NJ T., who then and there vaunt-
ingly challenged any American to dis
cuss with him the abstract right ol any
individual to hold human being in
bondage. Nor have we forgotten that
when several thousand dollars, sent over
from one of our Southern cities for be-
neyolent purpose, was rendered in public
TO distinguished member of the British
Parliament, be drew back, with melo-
dramatic horror, and denounced the gift
as blood bought money but another
form of blood, wrung by the oppressor
IRON the oppressed-and shrunk from il
with as much horror as if il had been the
veritable thirty pieces for which Judas
had betrayed his Savior! Neither have
we forgotten that when Uncle Toms
Cabin made its appearance how its
praises rang from every journal, and
were echoed from every lip, how il was
reproduced in twenty editions--lrom the
twenty guinea issue which shone respleu-
dent on my lords table 10 the sixpenny
reprint that was sniyelled over by nine-
tenths of the half-fed operatives and
working girls of England Or how the
visit of its author was made a sort of
triumphal march over every part of the
kingdom, or how her book, translated into
nine languages, was sent wherever ship
or railway could carry 10 10 poison the
mind of the universe. Nor have we for
gotten that a leading daily journal Of
London made the declaration, that The
OyerwOrked, underied, miserably clad and
Wretchedly lodged slaves have been COM
PEELED, as means of repressing their in
telligence, 10 work in iron collars, TO sleep
in the stocks, 70 drag heavy chains at their
feet, TO wear yokes, bells, and copper
horns; TO stand naked while their mas
ters brand them infamously, TO have their
teeth drawn, % have red pepper burned
inte their excoriated flesh, 10 be bathed
in turpentine, 20 be thrust into sacks with
mad cats, 70 have their fingers amputated
70 be shaved, and to be whipped from
Reck TO heels with hot" irons Nor have
We forgotten that this picture of slavery
was tens thousand of times reproduced
in the respectable" and really able and
influential journals Of England, until the
whole world was poisoned against our
institutions. From the Prince COnsOrt
who sat silently by and witnessed the
deliberate insult OF an American Min
lister by n British peer, before the
congregatcd intelligence Of all Chris
tendon, simply because slavery existed
in America, down to the wretchod cock
ney, himself forty times the slave to auf-
iering and circumstances beyond what
any negro is at lsw-there ia scarcely an
Englishman who has not been tutored 10
abhor slavery and the country whore il
exists Bringing the matter nearer
home tho seed Of English abolitionism
planted in the free States Of the Ameri
can Union, thus carefully watched and
0aiered, nave commenced 10 yield TO
England her long expected harvest in the
sad and terrible war that is now devas-
tating Southern soil, drying up every
source Of public and private wealth, and
which, we believe, she confidently hopes
IL 20 culminate in The destruction of
American slavery Slemiaqly encouraged
by he importation II q million aud a hqB
bales Of cotton from otler countries NE past
gear, che is employing Ills peT.03of oit- hials
ia PUst'ng her schemes JU colonial cot0U
| c'titdf0n 10 eysy part of MS uVH iilas
she can plant a seed, hoping thus 10 raise
mp 8 competition which will aid in uin-
ing American slavery hat one obstacle
10 her rapacious greed, against which for
a third Of a century, ahe has directed eve
cry resource Of her internal machiaaiions,
with a hearlless indifference 10 results
and a cruel disregard of consequences To
others.
II is certainly a most weak and vain
expectation to suppose that a nation thus
committed against the devoted institu-
tion, and thus convicted Of hostility 10
the Sonth, is likely 10 interfere 10 protect
this institution and system Of labor from
a war which she L1ol0g Ia be the ouly means
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