The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-12-17
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or any sense Of self respect, TO ger CD in
the House Of Commons and say that the
secession Of The Southern States has been
on question OF free trade and protection?
! (Cheer1) This is q war 70 extend and
( psrpetuste human slavery. prolonged
apPlsuse.) Is is iwar not 10 defend
slavery as Il was left By t5eir ancestors
a thing to be retained, and to be apol-
/ ogizsd Ter. 1t is war to establish a
slave pire, where slavery shall be made
the corner stone Of the social system.
where il shall be defended aad iustilisd
on scriptural aud chronological grounds
| tCheers.) say God pardon the men
who, IN the year Of grscs 1863, should
think that such projeos as that could
I be crowned with success. Cheers
Now you know why have from the fret
never believed 1t possible that the South
could succeed, and have not foanded
that faith merely on moral instincts
which teach me to Tepndiase the very
idea that anything so internal should
succeed. No. 1t is because in this
world the virtues and the forces 20 to-
gether, and the vices and weaknesses are
inseparAble. (APplause)
NATURE or THE CONFLICT.
It is therefore felt certain that this
project could never succeed. Applause
For how is il? Hrs is . community
with nearly half Of the population slaves,
and they are attempting to fght another
community where every Workingman is
a freeman. II is a. though Yorkshire
and Lancashire were 70 enter into a con
fiict and it was understood that in the
case Of one, all the laboreFs who did fhe
muscular work of the country in the field, /
in the factory, on the roads, OF in the do
nestle establishments-All the bone AID
muscle of the cOuntry-should be elm
mated from the fighting population and
ready 70 tlke advantages fer themselves,
if an opportunity was offered them, Of
running away; bow could community
so circums ianced fight yAinst the neigh
boring country, where every working
man was fighting for his country How
could the one have . chance Of succeed
ing, even if left TO physical ferce, without
the moral considerations 10 which I have
referred? This is the condition in
which the two sections of the United
STATES are ROW placed. In the one case
you have / nor given 70 industry labor
is held to honor. What do we hear
Have we not htz rd, 5y way Of re proach,
by some people who fsueied q snselges
in alliance with our aristOcra1y--s1meo Of
our writers, who wish 10 be supposed
they are themselves Of tbs aridoeratc
orders a stigma against the Nor'h
that their President was cnee q rail /
splitter? (Chsers) But why is that
rail splitter elevated to be President OF
the United States Becaule labor is
hold TO honor in the Uhited States
(Chsers.) --a-
ARIsToCRAcY AGAINST DEMOCRACY.
With SUCH conflict going on, snd
with such a result az feel no doubt will
follow, is il fair to speak of such 8 con-
test as that and say that it is struggle
for empire on one side, and fcrindepend-
ence on the other2 say it is an aristo
cratic rebellion against democratic gov
eminent. [ApplauIe That is the title
would give to it. In al history, when
you have bad the sristoctscg pitted
against the people In physical force and
conflict, the aristOeracy has always gone
down under toe heavy blows Of ihe de-
mocracy. Hear, hear. When speak
thus let NOBODY say | am therefore in
different 20 the progress Of misery and
devastation and ruin and bloodshed that
is now going on. No; my indignation
against the South is that they fred the
fret shot and made themselves RESPONSE
bic for these results. take, prObably, |
3 stronger view than most people Of this
eountry-snd certainly stronger view
than anybody in AmeTica-of the ysst
sacrifices Of life and Of economical com
fort and resources which must follow 20
the North from this struggle. They are
mistaken ii they think they can carry on
. civil war like HE, drawing a million
Of men from productive industry TO be
engaged in the processes Of destruction
TO spend two or three hundred millions
sterling-they are deluded it they think
they can carry on q war Ike that with
out terrible collapse, sooner or later,
and q dreadful prostFAtiOn in every part
of the community. Hsar, hear That
being 50 makes me still more intoleraht
of the cause. Bat Of the result have no
more doubt thau OF any subject which
lies In the future. ~ l'
rHe UsrrED STATES AND rUR3pKAs Gov
- ERsMEETs. l
Now would ak you why do some
people wish the United States should be
cut in two? They think It desirable II
should be weakened. Will that view
bear discussion for . momentE / bold |
not. I am Of tie opinion which orr
statesmen we're ia the tims OF Canning,
who thought it desirable for Europe that
America should be strong, because Il
would thereby prevent European powers
from Interfering ia American afiairs.
That has been the case hitherto. That
country has prospersd, aud II has never
come to interfere with European politics,
whilst Il has kept European governments
from interfering In other American States
which have been less prls7erOus or less
orderly than the United States What
has followed Of this disruption? You
have France going iaiO Ne xico and Spain
to st Domingo There are horrors uBut-
terable going on ia 81 Domingo because
Spain has invaded that counlry-(hear,
hear)-With view 10 Te-conquest. And
TIE French Emperer has embarked on =
career in Mexico which ] will only chs
raetsrizs 81 tbs greatest mistake be has
ever made. (Loud applauss.)
Those enterprises would never have
been undertaken II the United States had
not been in this difficulty, and u Is the
lssst orediiabls part Of these enterprises
that they have been urdeFtsken because
AmericE was weak. Hear, bear 10
only required that the North sbou. d nave
been little weaker 70 hsve enabled those
silly people who are going about the
country h have carried tneiF project, sDd
10 have iaoucsd EagIsnd and France 70
interfere 70 seftie the rebellion. hssr
l. that desftableT f0hssFs D0A'ty
think We have ea0uKh 70 DO At home !
Do you suppose thAi EnroPe has 90 little
70 DO that chs can Afford 70 cross over to
America 10 ssl that country in orderg
THE EUEOFE4E. coSGEEss-
Ha
Whai is fhs meaning Of The aiteranees
we haze heard lately from the French
Emperor With regard 70 the project f,r
European Congrsssf The Arrangements
Of the treaty ii Vienus--tO use the En-
psror's own Worda-are torntO tatteFs.