The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-05-22
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY q, 1868
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Of the. London lines from which we take
the following editorial
HOW 10 Avoid War with America.
By far the most important question
that sgitates the public mind is the reas {.
enable fear that the pro slavery conspir-
ators in this country may force o quar-
rel between England and the United
States. The Government has at last
shown symptoms Of vigour. Following
IN their first action, they have exchequ-
cred the Alexandria gunboat, and made
preparation 10 put the law in force
against the owners and builders of that
8 vessel. Whether or not the evidence
may be complete remains TO be seen !;
4 but whatever doubt may attach to any
J individual case, it is certain that some
4 British shipholders and merchants have
taken an active part in the American war,
by acting as accomplices of the slave
holders, and agents TO assistin the prose-
cution Of their nefarious war. 1t would
have been thought impossible that the
Mersey and the Clyde should be pollut-
ted by becoming centres of warlil1e arr
rangements destined TO prevent the eman-
cipation of the negro slave, and to assist
his oppressors in the most atrOciOus
scheme for which human beings were
ever banded together. We say nothing
] about sympathy with the Federal cause.
4 Let those who choose recOllect only the
evils Of American politics as they have
been displayed 10 Northern society. Let
them be severe az Rhadamanthus upon
the liberation which Northern citizens so
long manifested to the hideous abomin-
alton of slavery. Let them accuse them,
II they like, Of becoming emancipators
only because they could not help il.
\ Letthem point 10 such utterances as the
silly, contemplate speech of General
Butler, who was cheered instead of being
laughed down, ashe deserved, for his
foolish suggestion - that his countrymen
should abstain from intercourse with
ourselves. But when they have drawn
up the heaviest bill of indictment against
the North, they will not be one title
nearer to withdrawing the South BE
Northern defects and vices what they
may, the Southern Confederates stand
singular and alone in the annals of pub
lie iniduity. They make none of the
false pretences which their abettors in
this country have invented for them.
They came before the world without the
slightest Appearances of clean hands.
They have told us from the beginning,
as they tell us now, that the object Of
their rebellion is TO secure the power of
depressing the African race, of robbing
millions of their fellow creatures Of lib
erty, and compelling them TO labour like
beasts of burden that their masters may
riot on the fruit of their toll. Even the
individual who came over with the hypo-
critical pretenee of wanting Bibles for
the South, was compelled to confess that
IF English beneyOlence sent the sacred
writings Of the Christians TO his coun-
trymen they would not permit their free
circulation among the slaves. For gain
pf the basest kind these man stealers
ruin alike the bodies and the souls of
their victims. When the black man, or
e'en the tawny offspring whose blood
commingles with their own, comes before
hem, they have no conscience and no re-
lnorse; they reyel in every evil lust and
passion by which humanity can be dis
graced, and slavery, as il stands depict
ed in the curse and horror Of their daily
ives,is the most disgusting exhibition Of
brine, suffering, and degradation which
he heart can loathe or the imagination
conceive pkf. ftt tD
For good cause, we might wink at
nffiugements of our law, however peril
BUS they might be but the plain. ques-
ION for Englishmen now TO ans wsr Is,
Pillyou permit the STAKEHOLDER and his
ccomplees to involve you, for their
benefit, in an odious war Let us con-
der the matter independent of the Par
amentary discussion to which we shall
Hereafter have TO revert, The Federal
government complains that nearly all
pc damage done 10 the merchant yes
els of their subjects during the war has
pen accomplished with the direct help
hd aid Of certain English firms. The
rolioitOr General observes that our For
On Enlistment Act is purely munich
Al regulation, which we need not have
PISSED, and might repeal if we pleased.
his IS true enough. II is for us TO
tnoose the mode in which we will do our
DUTY TO foreign States, but the claims
those States are quite independent of
by local arrangements we may think
hopper to make. So long as two coun-
lies are at peace the Government of each
as claim UPON the Government Of the
bier, that their several subjects shall be
peace also. We cannot allow ship.
tnilders and dealers in marine stores TO
huy on war of their own against
Resident Lincoln and in behalf of Presi-
tent Davis, nor can we pretend that we
'Ave no power over their acts.
President Lincoln's Government has,
p the present time, acted honestly to-
ards other Powers, but many previous
residents in America behaved most
andaously in tolerating the dllbuster-
eNpeditons openly got up by the
ave party aud their adherenis, The
ncrcans who are angry with us ought
to forget that they have been the
oA lagrant sinners in these parlicu-
- butwhile we remind them Of their
'u,'s as areason why they should be
Vaerale in their anger, we must confess
az 'hey have good reasons tor COM
amt and that peace between the two
tua'rles will be very difficult 10 pre-
leh the Clyde aud the Mersey are to
"a'er'ed into dockyards for the Con-