The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-01-14


THE CONFEDEkACYs AND IT'S AD- |
Y0CATES ABROAD.
A private letter from London Furnish
~ us with some little items Of interest
not likely 60 find their way into the
Northern papers. The writer says:
mThoueb recognition is deferred, pub
lie opinion unanimously looks upon our
admission into the family Of nations as
sbrsgOno conclusion
II met Mr.. Gladstone, the Chancellor
Of tho Exchequer at dinner party,
some time since, and found him not only
most friendly, but in a discussion which
snsued after the ladies had retired he
came 10 my aid on The subject ofslavery.
found pfterward that his father was a
great West India proprietor and had
been ruined by English emancipation
Is not tnis a signY
The Index, we are glad 20 learn, has
proved great success, and produces a
political eject far beyond the most SAN.
guine hopes of it's friends II has already
laken its stand "a first-class weekly
a gentleman, formally of Mobile, and
ghOse liherality in aid Of Confederate
soldiers and the general cause has been
30 Often noted in these columns. is the
nunIiicenS supporter Of the Index
The editorial sanctum of the Index has
become tn, focus and rendezvous of
SOuthernes in London, 10 is a seminary
sf South"r intelligence, and school of
Southern writer's, not for its own columns,
but for tbe other London papers. The
cause ot tbe South now engages some of
the ablesi pens hfLondOu A few months
ago THESE men knew nothing about us,
and cared lees. Among the contributors
and Leader writers for the Index are j. i.
Hopkit and Percy Gregg, Esqs. Both of
nem ~ BnglishmeD. The former has
ieao capital statistical paper before
he socla Science Congress, on zine
RroduCtiveness cf the South" which has
attracted much attention, and made Lord
Brougham very angry. The same gem
hemar has lately written an introduce
non g the HSouih indicated" by Gen
tral Williams, a book just published in
london, % magnificent style, and well
received This work, as some of our
readers wrl remember was first publish
ed under the title Of Letters During the
Presidential Canvass Of 1860, in Nash
Vile ny James Williams, late Minister
to Constantinople, and was the first book
copyrighted under the Confederate
States
VI Percy Gregg is one of the principal
leader writers Of the Saturday Review
ihe leading London weekly, and write,
admirable Southern articles. He is ar
editOris. contributor to the Morning Her.
add and Sta0dard, both Of which paper
are in eject daily Southern organs.
The financial writer for the Index i
Mr.. George Mcllcnry, an ardent South.
erner, though born in Philadelphia Thi
gentleman also does yeoman's service T.
the Southern cause in the Times.
Ofthe Times, our correspondent writes
The Times, friendly 80 us because it j
fashionable 10 be SO, has become con
empubio sheet, aud is rapidly failing
few weeks az IL had long leader OF
Prussia Joining the Iolverein, when i
fact trussja is the head and author q
that famous Customs Union, and Ausui
was i1t country about 10 join. Only
Jew days ago II informed its readers ihs
the SoriH had larger population 20 Ie
crult from than the North. because
the cssh millions il originally possesse,
the mn, millions Of the Border State
we're added. This will give you an idle
nov lhe 6rea, Thunderer' is now edile,
Secretly il is our enemy because il pan
atr- "a Exeter Hall, and believes tht
the utter ruin Of the South will be 81
making Of India
There is no estimating the value of Il
labors OF these Southern advocates upC
Ahe English MUD. 1t is TO them large
that we owe the remarkable change of ;
equal public opinion in that COUNT
since Che revolution began. British syn
pathies were, az the beginning, almo
wholly with the North, and all Americ
Intelligence went out through Northe
sources and with Northern cOlorings
IS not perceived how that revolution
sentiment could have been produced e
Cept byan able representation of the tru
and Justice of OR cause through
agencies 20 which we have alluded
WAS one of the wisest measures of {
Confederate Government TO accredit
Henry HOzte as a commissioner or XII
pfenVoy TO the court of the English pre-
No man was better fitted to the task
his energy, his extensive political a
historical reading and his zeal as a IN
sionary of the Confederate cause
would have been money well expend
had the Government devoted a fund
sustain the sterling organ which Il
gentleman has established at the cen
Of English intelligence. In the absel
Of this, IL is fortunate for or cause Ha
Mobile gentlemon las been found both Z
and 10illng to furnish the most n he cap
nat supports H.
The English Of all this is that Souh
wmey is at the bottom Of all the elab
ate PARTICLES we see in British papers
hyor of the rebels The purse Of
munihcent Mobile gentleman" feeds
penny a liners who yomit forth TORE