The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-12-30
A Graphic Picture of Southern
Empire.


The London DAILY Nscs draws this
picture Of the character of the South and
the probable consequences which would
follow It's achievement of Independence
AS far as England is concerned, wo
may judge from the past. Many people
say, in excuse for their state of mind
about the war, that they defeat the Anne
ricans Very well; and what does this
mean2 1t means an association Of ideas
made up Of troubles about search Of
slavers at sea, and brag about the, Monros
doctrine, and threats of Canada, and SLAM
ders about our cruises in the Gull, and out
rage on San Juan, and the bullying of the
Gen. Harneys, and the sharp practice Of
cabinets at Washington and aggressions
upon our seamen in port, and universal
rudeness 10 our representatives in the
States, and TO our Government through
American representatives in England.
All this, with impressions of nlibus-
tering, threats about Cuba, an unre-
pressed clandestine slave trade, lynch
law, maraudingsip Kansas, brag about
| liberty, together with tar and feathers.
cowhiding,. slave markets, human stock
breeding, aud all the rest of it-these
impressions combine to make up the SEN
timent expressed by the avowal, al de-
test the Americans" But for every ele-
ment of this impression Confederate co.
ciety is answerable. IL was the South
reigning at Washington, the South i'm
| porting negroes, the South coveting Cuba
and Canada, the South sending Walker
and Lopez into the territory OF an ally
| to stir up instruction, the South sending
| General Harvey to San Juan, the South
| getting up the Monroe doctrine, the South
lynching clergymen, and burning alive
travellers suspected of disappearing slav-
ery-the South as universal aggressor,
bully, braggart, traitor, mischief maker,
and thorough bore---that society was get
ting TO detest more and more every year.
What follows, if this same South, inflated
with pride and revenge, could actually
recover our domain?
The bred Scott decision would be ac-
lively enforced, and the whole territory
of the Union made slave soil. The pop
ular vote would be oyerruled, or pracIi-
cally precluded, as hitherto in the South:
and rights of education, of free speech,
and free press, would be extinguished.
Labor being discredited by the extension
Of slavery, the pauperism and degrade
ton of the free workers of the North
would corrupt society to its
core. The concubinage Of the
South would spread beyond the present
dividing line, and the morals OF the
whole nation would be in danger Of be-
coming like those of the slave States,
which are grosser than can be conceived
of in any other part Of Christondom. Ev-
! cry other nation would be perpetually on
the verge OF war, or engaged in il, because
I the slave power cannot abstain from az.
gression, nor maintain its position by che
arts of peace. We should see retro
grade period arrive more disastrous u
civilization than the advent of the fra
Napoleon. We should see a buccslver,
ing nation turning the progress Of I,oIiti.
cal liberty into mockery, desti.oyinl
. the freedom Of the seas, and the security
, Of territory, and the prosperity Of labor
! We should see the natural laws Of indus
try tempered with, civilization burDe'
back q canting paganism set up in lh
name Of Christianity, and the Old Worl
infested with the piraeies Of the New.