The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-12-17
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those members aud their constituents
was this, that this affair in America was
TO be settled in q peculiar way, accord
ing TO The dictates Of those particular
parties. Hear, hear. From che be-
ginning OF this American war, this lam
sntable cOnvalsion, from which YOU have
suffered so much. one great and fu1da-
mental error in the conduct Of statesmen
and governm Is, and in the conduct Of
large portion Of the Influential classes
in this. country, has been, that they have
made up their minds that there can be
bu! one issue TO this civil war in Emeri-
ca, aud that is = separation between tbs
North and South. ICheers,l told you
when was here last, when that spirit
was, if pCsiible, ev n more RE flhan il
is how, that did not myself believe the
war would issue ia that way. / have
stated the same opinion since in the
House Of Commons yet I declare to you
that, taking what is called by q cant
phrase in London society" which means
that upper ten thousand with which
members Of Parliament are liable to come
into contact in the clubs snd elsewhere,
niueteen-twentieths Of the ruling classes
(if 4 may use the phEase) that you meet
IN those putileus in London have been
firmly convinced from the first that the
civil war could only end in separation.
Hear, hear How far the wish was
father to that thought | will not pretend
to say. tCheers. / believe the con-
viction has been sincere; believe it has
been founded on the belief that, looking
at the vast extent of territory occupied
by the insurgents in this war, it was
impossible that they could be subjugated
by any forces tbst could be brought
against them by the North.
IGNORANCE OF AMERICAN AFFAIRS:
! But there has been . most lamentable
display of ignorance amongst those elias
ses TO which Irefel If We may Judge by
the conduct of the organs of the press
which may be considered the opponents
Of their views. There have been errors
in geography: mighty rivers, to which
those in England can bear no comparison,
which hundreds Of miles Of steam nAyi-
CATION, have been described ia those Lead
ing organs as running into one river and
into another, in utter disregard of the
rules of geography. There are q number
of great cities in America-cities Of one
hundred and ffty thousand inhabitants
which are among the largest shipping
ports for raw produce in the world, in
the interior Of that country. In one Of
them have seen mile Of steam
boats moored side by side, and yet
Of those great cities, and that great
commerce, forming part Of the strength
and resources of North America, the rul-
ing classes in this country know Meth
ing. You done find them in books at
Oxford and Cambridge where your un-
graduates are obliged 10 study before they
can pass their examinations.
SUCCESS OF THE REBELLION IMPOSSIBLE.
It is in utter ignorance Of those re-
sources that the opinion Of the rolling
classes in England has been come to.
But |, whom accident perhaps, more than
any thing else, has made as well acquain-
ted with the politics and geography Of
that country as with my own, | have
never belIeVed-and | believe now less
than ever---that shall ever live, or that
any one here will live to see to two sep
arate nations within the confines Of
the present United States of America.
lCheers, / will tell you ,candidly that
if it was not for one cause, should con-
slider as hopeless and as useless the at
tempt 10 suhjugaie the Southern States of
America as the parties do upon whose
views l have been commenting. II is the
object with which The separation has
been made that, in my opinion, renders
the success of the secessionists Also
Iutely imposslble-[hear, eArl-and if
tie moral and intelligent population Of
this country bad not been sy scientifically
misled upon that question they would
have been unanimously Of that convic
ton. [Hear, hear. We were told in
tie House of commons by one from whom
it was almost intrsdible that ii could have
have come--once The great champion Of
democracy, once the great advocate Of
ell The rights and principles Of the
unsophistiested millions = that this
civil war otiginlted because the South
wished to establish free trade principles
and Che North would not allow il.
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