The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-03-13
The Anti. Slavery Revival.

the tlmeHt III VIII, IN us Iebuit~, cAtiClhe
on the present generation Of Englishmen
a deep ard abiding influence. L. must
have been Obvious TO every intelligent
observer that during the last few months
the character Of England has been at
stake. There was reason 20 fear that
public opinion would become democrat
lied by pro-slavery sophisms and mis-
representations or that, at an the
real sentiments of the nation would be
sti1ed for the want of an opporiunity'to
give them audible expression. The dan
ger has happily vanished, and the British
nation again stands proudly before the
world as the foe of the oppressor, wheth-
or he assume the form of Russian auto
crat or Southern stakeholder. London
has given the signal for the provinces to
speak out, and they have hobly respond
cd TO the call. This is no manufactured
agitation. All that the Emancipation
Society has done has been simply TO APP
peal to the friends Of human liberty to
act for themselves. The meetings which
have been held in so many great cities
and towns are of purely local origin
they are the result Of voluntary, unaided
efforts of citizens who are more familiar
with the workshop and the counting
house than with the public platform, and
who have only emerged from private life
under deep sense of the duty they owe
TO their country and TO mankind.
The Times tainted the Emancipation
lists with the absence from their meetings
and populations Of the old anti Slavery
celebrities. Where, it asked, were the
living representatives of these men of
world wide fame? 1t was convenient for
the Times to forget that the son may not
walk in the footsteps of the father-that
great qualities are not necessarily trans
mitted with great names--aRd that the
absence of certain men from a movement
may only prove that they are only I'M
worthy of their sires. But on Tuesday
last deputation from the Anti Slavery
Society waited upon Mr.. Adams, the
American Minister, to present him with
an address of sympathy and congratnla-
| tiou. Those who take the trouble 10 look
over the list will perceive that many of
the well known names reappear The
Gurneys, the Sturges, and the Choppers
occur as frequently in the history of West
India Emancipation as any which are
identified with that great movement. No
one will dispute their claim to be regard
ed as representatives of the party which
thirty years ago carried the cause of the
negro to a triumphant issue, The Times
which put the question alluded to above
| declines TO give the answer furnished by
the presence of these gentlemen at the
| interview with the American Minister
The proceedings of this important depu-
tation were dismissed in paragraph, and
the name of only one of the seventy gen.
tlemen who attended from various parts
| of the country was allowed TO be com.
municated to that portion of the public
who read the misleading journal. Thi.
| is a specimen of the unfairness which has
passed into proverb. 1t is, however, q
trifle which would not be worth mention.
ing il it did not aptly illustrate the tactics
of the enemy.
After all, the Liverpool OF to- day il
not the same Liverpool which threatened
to throw Mr.. Wilberforce in TO the Mer.
sey. 1t is unquestionably still the CEN
tire of large amount of Pro. Slavery
sentiment; but, as we have recently seen
many of the best known and most inilu-
entail Liberal politicians of the borough
sympa,hize strongly with the cause oil
freedom in America. Their efforts ia
arouse their fellow tOwasmen will be
greatly aided by the publication of The in
tercepted Southern correspondence, which
makes known the appointment of Mr.. as
Spence, the foremost champion of the
| South in the press, Us the financial agent
of the Southern Confederate Government
True, Mr.. Spence insists that be is only
doing business with them in the capacity
of broker. But his advocacy can hard
ly have the same weight as it did when
he Indignantly repudiated Mr. Patter-
sons phrase that the Confederates were
his Clients" The financial agent of JEFF
ferson Davis is scarcely the man to lee.
ture the British nation on its duty in re
gard to the American contest Without
impugning the sincerity of his convic-
tions, it is not too much TO say that his
opinions will now cease TO affect the cur
rent Of English thought, But tho Times
while publishing a portion of the inter-
cepted correspondence, is careful to with
hold that part of il which makes appa-
rent the relation now occupied by its
we'll known correspondent IS" towards
the Confederate Government. Honest
journal! Ever true to its mission, it
stands without rival in baseness.
II is pleasant 20 turn from such a sub
| ject to the great meeting held az Roch-
dale during the past week. The object
of that meeting was to pass resolution
of thanks to the Americans for the liberal
supplies Of food they have sent to relieve
the distressed operatives Of Lancashire.
We hope that many such demonstrations
! will be held in the manufacturing dis
! tr3cts, and many speeches delivered like
! that of Mr.. Bright What is wanted is
hot merely thanks, but sympathy. Our
American brethren have been griovously
disappointed at the coldness with which
their cause has been regarded in this
country. Knowing, as they did, that
they were fighting to preserve the terri
tory Of freedom against the irruptions of
barbarians more lawless than the Goths
or Turcomans of old, they fit keonly
the lack Of sympathy which was at one
time too manifest in Great Britain. But
all this has changed The light of truth
has dissipated the mists which obscured
the popular vision. Words of good will
and friendship are going out to America
by every mail The cause Of the North
is now esteemed the cause of a power
which will confer liberty on the black
man as well as the white, who responded
70 the call Of that address, aud spread
civilization from the Atlantic 10 the Pa
eifc, aud from the Great Lakes TO the
Gulf