The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-01-30
The Anti Slavery Spirit of England
Aroused.
From tho Liverpool Pest, Jan. ..

The Times has raised lion in the path Of
tho SO,alsrn Contsasracy For long peri
ed it has supported the Southern cause
by every argument ingenuity could aug
gest. AM by every statement an easy and
Sanguine credulity could adopt. South
erners themselves have been startled by
the yehemency of The Times advocacy
and the strength of its assertions. At
length it has gone beyond bounds, and
overreachod itself King Public will
suffer his royal ear to be abused good
deal, but there are things to which he
will not hearken, and which he must re-
sent. The Times has actually gone the
length of advocating Slavery, or at least
of asserting that Christianity and the
| Bible say nothing against it and this has
proved TOO much for the mental stomach of
! the English people. On oil sides indignant
populations are heard Nearly he whole
| Press has raised its Uoics IN denunoiahon Of
| THIS goddess and MberaI doctrine Unless
we greatly mistake the signs of the times,
a reaction will set in from this point.
Men will begin TO ask themselves what
amount Of confidence need be placed in
= journal which, at its clients bidding
goes so far as to cast aside British pre-
judices in favor of freedom, and to justify
Slavery almost as boldly as Mr.. Ste
| phens, the Vice-President of the South
ern Oonicderacy, could do.
From the London Patriot, JanuaryS
The meetings which the Emancipa-
ton Society has convened in different
parts Of the kingdom have demonstrated
! that Engli shmen abhor slavery as pro-
foundly and sympathize with slavehold-
ers as little as they ever did. Our feel
ing at first was that we were assuming
the position of apologists where we
ought rather to have been complainants,
in holding these meetings for the pur-
pose of assuring the men of North
America that they illuminated us
when they said we had departed from
our Anti Slavery faith, but we now
think it happy thing that the opinion
of the country has been thus unmstake.
bly, expressed, for thus we are saved from
having to blush in the face of all the
world at Tie Times newspaper Offering
defences for Slavery, and from Scripture
forsooth! The Times is accepted in other
countries as the infallible reflex of the
English mind, and the Americans will
doubtless hold up The Times of Tuesday
last as a positive proof that Great Bri-
tain has become the abetter of Slavery,
and that the loss of cotton, having been
the touchstone of the sincerity Of our
professions, had proved us to be a nation
of hypocrites, pretending TO teach the
world a morality Of which the first touch
Of adversely suficed TO prove the hollow
ness. But a hiss Of reprobation aCiH rise up
through the length and breadth Of Christian
Ea0ldnd when il comes to understand
that the "leading journal has dared to
revive the stale infdel story-the last
and worst plea of the slave -trader-that
the Bible does not contain Zone single
text that can be perverted TO prove Slav-
cry unlawful" and that st. Paul. in his
advice to Onesimus, tells slaves that
"they must make the best Of their con.
dition, and not try to escape from it, at
least by any means contrary TO the laws
, of their country" Nothing-not even
the brutality of the Legrees-so shocks
Englishmen as the attempt TO defend
Slavery out of the Word Of God, and we
never remember to have seen this more
unblushingly done than in Tho Times ar
ticle. We are told that "sumptuous fare
j. purple and fine linen, wealth, ecclesias-
teal titles, unmarried clergy, good cleri'
. cal incomes, and many other things, are
!, contrary to the spirit of the Gospel, or a
least can be proved so as easily as Slav.
h cry" The indignity and disgrace done
. to this whole nation by the printing o
such sentence in the leading article 0
the journal which we have exalted TO thu
foremost place Of honor and influence
D. fills us with shame aud resentment IL
argue the matter wonld only be TO in
", crease the dishonor. None but atheist
4. or fools contend at this time Of day tina
the Bible approves Slavery; Snd nom
= but shareholders or their hired advocate
will pretend that Christianity is no
~ most really opposed to this sum of al
," villainies its precepts are utterly de
=, structive both of Slavery In the abstract
y and Of all the horrible practices in whic
it issues.