The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-07
s. o. mEuoEa, Editor.
Why the British Aristocraoy Sym
uathize with the Seeded States.

There is no doubt that desire lOF 'i1o
success Of the Cotton State Rebellion
prevails almost universally among the
arislocracy Of our ancient enemy, Great
Britain. No intelligent person, who has
read the articles Of the organs Of that
aristocracy, can have failed to notice
their bitter and vulgar vindictiveness, in
speaking Of the Federal Government, or
their cagerness to republish, and pro-
fessedly, 70 credit the most senseless and
unreasonable, and preposterous fabrica-
tons Of the rebel newspapers. With
these mouth-pieces of British nobility,
everything Federal is weak, inhuman
and barbarous, everything confederate
is powerful, chiyalrous and enlightened.
Federal confscation Of rebel property is
diabolical and rebel CONSUMPTION of 10y
al men is according to the enlightened
genius of the age. Forts Warren and
Lafayette are Bastiles and Black Holes of
Calcutta, but the tobacco warehouses Of
Richmond, and the rotten Jail of Tusca-
Ioosa, foul and deadly as the hold Of
an African slave ship, are civilized places
of confinement. There can be no doubt
whether the good wishes of the Sir
Johns, my Lord This, or My Lady That
lean towards the flag which brought
disgrace to CORVALLIS, and Packenham,
or to that which would rob the former
banner of half its splendor British
aristocracy is Enthusiastically for the reb-
els, and the Cotton Confederacy. Why
is this ? II this sympathy be The out
burst Of noble and generous impulses,
we ought not TO condemn it, or complain
of il, even though we be sufferers by it,
AT least in such a case, it would be
somewhat excusable. If the privileged
class of Great Britain favor the South
ern Rebellion, because they &re the
friends and advocates of freedom and
independence everywhere they might be
pardoned, as being deluded, but honest
enthusiasts, whose excessive kindness Of
heart atoned somewhat for an excessive
weakness of head. Don Quixote excites
no anger in our breasts, even when he
oOuches his lance, and spurs his gaunt-
ribbed Rozinante for a desperate charge
upon windmill or a flock of sheep, or
a funeral procession of solemn monks,
whom he imagines to be bearing some
enchanted knight TO his long imprison-
ment. But is English nobility the friend
of liberty and independence In what
war have her Dukes, and Earls, and Mar
quises ever appeared as the champions of
human freedom ? Has poor China, upon
whom the .damnable opium trade was
forced at the mouth of British cannon,
augh. TO thank them for, in this respect?
Have the East Indies received freedom
and independence from Great Britain
Does poor Ireland enjoy the blessings of
liberty, while she is plundered and inn
poverished by the extortion and rapacity
Of British absentees ? Did the patriots
Of the American Revolution regard Eng
land as buntiful dispenser Of indepeud-
ence? We believe they did not, saving
always the Tory population of that mis-
cradle, selfish, soulless State, South Car
DINA, the arch-leader in the present re-
bellion.
But perhaps, some secessionist will
say, England is lover of our peculiar
institution, and advocates the rebel cause
for the sake Of preserving slayery. But
this is not so it is directly otherwise.
The London Times said in a recent para
graph, which we re-published the other
day, that the death Of slavery would GER
tainly follow the establishment of the
Southern Confederacy, and it is a noto-
rious fact that all classes in England
have for years reproached the United
States for tolcrating the great crime Of
human slavery. The English nation has
for thirty years been fighting negro slav
cry in all possible ways, and by all
conceivable agencies.
Why then are British aristocrats de-
sirous to see the establishment Of Con-
federaey based upon African slavery?
II is not so much, we imagine, the crea-
lion Of new aud independent nation
which IL desires, as the downfall Of the
present Federal Government. The bright
example and influence Of this rapidly
growing free government, which has done
so much already, and promises to do so
much more, if Heaven prolongs its life,
are not calculated TO inspire the despots
of Europ, and the oppressors Of man