The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-01-22
Bitter Attach. on Great Britain by a
Leading Rebel Organ.

future relations Of the two governments,
and still more materially upon the bust
ness intercourse Of their people. If we
credit appearances nine. tenths of the
British people are with us and for us, an
equal or greater proportion of the Press,
and large minority IL not majority of
the ministry. Yet so passive is their sym
pathy, that they permit, almost without
remonstrance those two old painted
mummies, Palmerston and Russell, 20
place the British nation in an attitude
toward us, heartlessly and cruelty un-
just There can be no doubt that those
who direct the policy of England Sc
cretly rejoice in the fact that the late
United States are arrayed against each
other in bitter strife, literally threaten
ing the complete humiliation Of each
other, thus relieving her of a powerful
rival of whom she lived in continual
dread
AS the Mississippian says, they desire
the restoration of the Union less than
any other event, and feeling that that re-
suit is impossible, they do not wish to
see the independence of the Confederate
States established until the people both
North and South are Frustrated in
strength, bankrupted in finance, and dis
graced as free people. With a hypo-
critical profession Of anxiety that the
war may cease, they have pursued the
very course calculated to inilame aud
prolong the contest. They have patted the
Southerner on the shoulder, saying "Bra-
vo! my gallant young lad, we admire
your courage" insidiously from time to
time encouraging our people to presevere,
and recognition would soon come. At
the same time they heap abuse upon the
North, haunting her with her inability to
whip the Southern game cock, only for
! the purpose of eXasperating that section.
They have acted the part OF brutal by
stander, losing no opportunity to intensi
fly the hot contest raging between two
alienated brothers. They have purpose
to gain in this savage and perfdious poll
cy and the wickedness of the Northern
people in waging an unholy war upon the
liberties of the South enables them TO
carry il out.
The Confederate States needed no en-
couragement 70 stimulate them to the as
They acted alone upon their own judy
ment and convictions of duty; but we
cannot help revolving at the inhuman
demonstrations of England We have
been undeceiyed in regard to it. We
judge the English Ministry rightly now
and next TO the abominable North, we
have right to hate them more than any
other Government upon earth. If it
were possible that the United States
could be restored-an event forever be-
yond the pale of possibility--the En-
glish Government would find a whole
solme and intense hatred for them both
North and South, which was only
equalled by that which their brutality
inspired in the breasts Of our grand
fathers
The fact is remarkable, that Napoleon,
to whose people we are not connected by
the ties of common language and kind
red, and whose interest an the cessation
of hOstilities i'm America is not one third
as great as that Of the English, should
offer terms Of mediation in the spirit of
humanity, the object Of which was to
gain an armistic, in order that the eflu-
sion of blood should be stayed, aud the
parties in the strife might settle homer
ably their difficulties, and that the hui
name offer should be coldly rejected by
England, whom we have called our
mother. Even Russia, from whom we
had no right TO expect anything, and who |
had nothing to gain, could not treat with |
indifference an offer which common hui |
manity so strongly recommended. The !
failure of the mediation scheme, it, in
deed it turns out to be failure, is attri-
butable entirely 20 the heartless selfish !
ness and base fears and short sighted |
policy Of England, our mother.
The Confederate States will remember |
England in she future. There was time |
when she could have made fast friends of |
us, but that time, we believe, is going by |
forever. We look upon her pres gOentv- |
eminent as little less corrupt than that of |
the North. The conduct of her ministers |
in our affairs has been characterized by |
sordid lust and base fears. A threat
from Seward will silence Earl Russell |
more eilectually than the walls Of the suf-
fering poor Of his country. Treachery |
being the predominant Characteristic Of |
both the Yankee and the English Premi- |
ers, we are not surprised that there is a
mutual hostility to the South, and per
haps tacit understanding 10 despoil US
of the products of our country. Seward |
is by far the shrewder knare Of tbs two |
and his voice seems TO be as potent with /
Earl Russell as it is in the Cabinet al |
Washington, Certain III is that he has |
dictated in most supereilious terms, the /
course be wished England 10 pursue since |
the establishment of the blockade and the |
of the COnfederates as bellig- |
erens. Up 70 the cOnsummation Of the !
latter event, the willy Yankee fox had not |
put hIs thumb upon the old English Pre-
mier Since then, however, the conduct
Of England has been dictated by Seward
A BERLIg journal states that there are
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