The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-12-10
WEDNEspAY MoRNINe. DC. 10. lse2
mediation.

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No greater misfortune could bcfall The
American people, North and South, than
an sctual, or an attempt at, interference
in American affairs by any, or all the
great Powers Of Europe. Having learned
early the danger Of foreign alliances and
ENGAGEMENTS, and to avoid such, has be-
come one of our national msxims for po-
litical safety; and having adopted this
as rule Of action for the government OF
our own national affairs and interests, il
has become, in the mind of the American
people, q political virtue, and information
al law, that should be practised by all
nations, and there should be no infringe
ment Of II, except under the compulsion
Of The highest laws of national safety.
Having acted upon this principle in the
past, with a republican form Of govern
ment, and democratic Institutions, Of
which our people are excessively jealous
and watchful, and which, in our opinion,
has never been duly appreciated by
foreign Governments, any interference
whatever, and for any cause, would be
regarded as an attack upon our form of
government, and blow at our democratic
institutions. Such would inevitably be
the construction of the motives of inter-
ference, however well defined or explain
ed by the Government SO doing. Outside
of the insolence and contempt implied,
the officious intermeddling of any peo-
Die or nation, with us and ours, would be
resented until the national manhood was
exhausted, and its spirit broken. Our
people already know and feel that no
people on the earth are so cramped by the
civil war now raging in America, as to
base an interference upon imperative ma
tional compulsion but should such de-
plorable interference occur, it would rise
from the meanest Of human passion, and
the basest of national motives. BY some
il would be regarded and looked upon
as ofIicious interference, arising from a
hectoring, domoneering, national spirit,
by others as an attempt TO destroy our
Republican form of Government, our
Democratic intiiutions, and with their
destruction to overturn our maxims Of
liberty and equality, and the blessings
arising from free Government. Others
again would regard it as done with a
view to territorial aggrandizement, and
with view to possess themselves of our
lands, our climate, and we ourselves, af-
ter being deprived Of all commercial and
agricultural advantages, to be made the
serfs and slaves of the monarchs and
powers of Europe. But where one could
be found, whose objections would be bas-
ed upon single one of the above causes,
there could be found ninety-nine, whose
objections would be based upon all, and
others far more powerful and which
would stir this mighty people from cints
to circumfrence. ~ t tiw
% The little hints and feelers thrown
out by diplomatic ministers of European
Governments, have had no good effect
upon the public mind of this country,
but on the contrary have intensified the
feelings of our people, and made them
more watchful and jealous.
We said there could be no greater
misfortune, and in consequences and eff
fects there could be no greater calamities'
That it would end the rebellion by crush
ing it to atoms in one month, and with
il all its friends and sympathizers every
where on this continent, there could be
no doubt. In view of foreign inter-
ference, no man would stop TO debate
what means, whether constitutional or
otherwise, should be used, and the great
heart of the nation would beat wild with
excitement bordering on delirium. Ev-
cry man who did not espouse the nations
cause in an emergency like this, should
flee the wrath to come. A million of
those who are to-day the chattels-prop-
erty Of the South--would bear the mus
ket and the bayonet. We trust that Eu-
rope viii consider well the temper and
spirit Of the American people before she
launches herself into such massacre
and butchery OF men--in bIoodshed and
desolation-wide- spread and terrible.
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