The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-08-21
a french staiesn,nn on the American
Question.


A french Statesman on the American
Question.
Count AGENoR DE GAsFAnIN, an eminent i
French statesman has lately published a /
book on the principles az issue in our
great civil war. He gives the following
testimony on the perhdy Of the Southern
Commissioners in Europe
|" IL the Souiherners had not for a moment
persuaded Europe that sloucry ,Das not IN
uic question, they would never have cx-
torted the title Of bclligorent"
The rebels in Europe, says the Count,
tell us that "Slayery is not in the ques-
ton" at ALL This assertion is confirm
ed by the declaration of Mr. YANcEY 10
Earl RUSSELL, that Mr.. LISooLN was en-
titled to no sympathy from Great Britain
because HE was pro-slavery Admin
istration." Now in the face of the dec
laration Of an impartial French states
man, as to the assertions Of the Rebels
in Europe, and Of these rebels themselves
so eminent as Mr.. YAScEY, Mr.. Rosr
and Mr. MASv is It not consummstc i'm.
pudence in rebels here to speak Of this as
an Abolition war, and TO charge Mr.
LINCOLN with plotting the death Of Slave
ry, just because he is determined TO save
the Union from disruption ? Mr. LIN
oo1S cans to save the Republic, and let
Slavery take care Of itself I'D r if il
pcrishes in the tumult Of agitation, on
their heads be the blame, who broughton
this internal rebellion. Count GAsPARIN
speaks these words OF encouragement
to the friends of the Union:
"Danton said Audacity, audacity,
and again audacityl' / say, willingly =:
Hope, hope, and again hope = This
crisis, despite the suffering that it in
cludes, will be the honor and consolation
Of our times. Never, perhaps, were mat
ter and spirit so directly at strife; the
question is a moral one IL is for Amer
lea TO know whether the Puritan element
will win-fOr the whole world TO know
whether liberty and justice will finally
prevail
"The whole world, have Just said is
engaged in the contest The uprising OF
this people uprises as also; this spectacle
of sufferings nobly accepted do us good
We feel that one of those storms which
purify the atmosphere is passing at this
moment over the globe.
"Tbose over whom it passes have &c
suffer, but after the tempest comes fine
weather, aud, like that which, after hav-
ing been dispersed by the storm, found
tSolrentire in the smooth waters of Port
Royal, America will seem, perhaps, al
most TO sink beneath the violence of Tho
winds, until it attain the end. This END
is peace.
"No, the sixteenth President of The
United States will not be the last; no
the eighty fifth year of this people will
not be The last; their flag win come ou
Of battle pierced with bullets and black
ened with powder, but more glorious thar
ever, without having let fall as hope, il
the melee, a single one Of its thirty -Goul
stars"
In closing his noble defence Of ouI
country, Gasparin utters these oraculal
words:
"The chances Of success appear TO mt
great in the United States but ask th'
reader to render me this justice, that
have not waited to see them in order t.
believe in them. believed in them be
cause believed in principles. ! greeted
from the first moment the uprising Of {
great people, because / saw from the frs
moment that this great people was under
taking great thing-that it was tight
ing for justice and liberty. One Away
up rises in this vocation.