Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-05-31
our AGaIrs Abronn.
THE SOUTH ALONE NEEDS INrERvEsr

THE SOUTH ALONE NEEDS INTERVENTION.
The London Times ofMay 10, contra
dieting all its former predictions and as
sertions with regard to the weakness and
daily increasing exhaustion Of our Gov
ernment and treasury, labors to prove
that the rebels alone require foreign
aid, comfort or advice and that if
such a calamity as Intervention should
come at on the country, it must come
their instance. The writer says 'eThey
(the Washington CabineO have already
Possession Of che seas, and the whole
British navy could give them nothing
more. We might lend money, but Of this,
too, in some form or other, they have got
enough to allow of a present expenditure
of G800,000 day. AS to sending them
men, all the effective troops now serving
in England might be landed in New York
without causing any perceptible increase
in the fabulous numbers of the Northern
armies. We might send them three times
as many soldiers as we sent TO Canada
without adding above five per cent to
their forces in the field. No ruler in the
world, not even the first Napoleon, ever
disposed of so many men or so much
money as Abraham Lincoln. He has
fully 650,000 troops now under arms, and
it is bOasted that he could double that
number. His finances may rest on less
stable foundation, but he has, at any rate,
enough and to spare for the time. Inter-
vention, therefrre, on behalf of the North,
would be simply nullity, for no alli-
ance could add to its power or promote
its ends"
|, TRANSCRIPTION IN THE DISTRICT.
The Times says of the abolition offs
very in the District:
Neither Englishmen nor Frenchmen
have been forward to recognize the fact
than the 10th of April, 1862, was day
whichwill stand in American history as
the greatest day since that of the signing
of the Declaration of Independence
the day of this century which will be
honored through all the time, whatever
may be the destiny in store for the Re-
public. When the traditions of sea and
land victorious are becoming dim--when
the grass has grown high on the grave OF
fallen heroes-that day will stand high
est in the scale of national festivals, and
the refOrmers Of the second revolution
will seem to form, in the vista of the past,
one group with the patriots of the first
On that day the people Of the United
States ceased to be slaveholding nation
Till then there had been gulf fixed be-
tween them and all those Christian ma
tions which had Outgrown the barbarism
of boId;nos ,,,aY, 90 oIovas ond rovy 4ba
nation has come over to the side on which
we stand. tits now entitled to act and
speak as free nation should. 1t is now
qualified to act with US, without misgiv-
ing and without hypocrisy, against the
| Siavetrade. 1t is no longer subject for
the scepticism and scorn of the world,
| because Of the contrast between its
profession and its practice. After a
struggle between the best and the worst
elements of its society," struggle pro-
lOnged through two generations--it has
abolished Slavery in the national terri
tory, and the national Government has
ceased TO be a slaveholding power.
Slavery has sunk to be a mere State in
stitutiOn; and, deprived of national sane.
tion and support, and exposed, as it now
| is, to the condemnation of the American
Government, together with all other Gov
ernments, it cannot long sustain itself
under the scorn and loathing of human
society. As national institution it
could assume to defy foreign opinion. AS
a"domestic institution" reprobated in
Washington as in London and Paris, its
doom is plain, and its strength is bro
ken.