The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-02-11

Mr.. We. Forster yOnso Of our warnest
friends in the British Parliament, I'D.
dressed his constituents st Bradford,
England, on the 9Th ultimo, and in the
course Of bic remsfEs slluded 20 Amer
can affsirs-frst, however, declaring his
conviction that 3 member of Parlisment
ought usually TO confine himself on such
occasions tO'sukjecis imnedately affsc-
ting England. sill, as there are
EDglisbmen who wish to interfere in
American affairs, be had deemed il proper
10 uphold the cause Of non -intsrvention
both in Parliament and outside Of it.
BE added 20 ww
she believed that they need not do
that now, IS the fear of Intervention was
removed. GsYtsiniy 4he9 Rad heard
Of sDasmodic and convulsiVe efforts made
by Southern Gibbs 70 cause England 70
interfere in American affairs but
thanks 70 the success of, fheF edsrsls,
and the comparative non-success Of the
Oonfederates, there wss no reason 70 be-
lieve that Parliament in the next session
would depart from The opinion they had
already expressed that any Intervention
would involve war, and that. premature
recognition, .ofrrthe Confederate States
would be Intervention" Applause
Mr.. Foreter then congratulated the
people Of England upon the preservation
Of peace:
"The more The people Of England look
ed At the matter, the more clearly they
saw that the war was begun on behalf Of
Slavery, snd that when it ended, In the
rna-.y-of ooo's providence, it would end
in tbe utter destruction of Slavery, and
that destruction SFOuld so alter the state
Of The South, that that would become pos
eible which would otherwise not have
been possible that the Union which had
been broken up by Slavery might be re-
stored By Emancipation. Applause
That being The real meaning of the strug-
gle, they might be thankful that they bad
been preserved from any interference on
behalf Of The daVeholders. He should
almost have despAired Of 3 Providence
guiding The affairs Of msn if il was pos
sible that such cause could nave sue
ceeded. There bad been no such sttempt
in history to put back the progress Of
civilization as this attempt in the nine
teentb century 70 found an olig srchical
government, with some Of the virtues. he
granted, but with all the worst faults Of
feudalism, and TO fasten upon Christian
State the worst social evils Of pagsnism.
Applause
Though theFu had fried 70 do3his they
had failed. Notwithstanding their mill
tsry value and courage. But-1hay~had
succeeded IN striking. a death blow to
slavery, for the maintenance Of which
they undertook the war. At any rate
they had done this,swhich to uss thres or
four yeas ago, would have been consider
ed a mirscle-thev had succeeded in
making = great majority Of the Northern
people Abolitionis's, because they ha d
convincedthgmFhst they must choose
between the integrity Of the country and
the preservation Of this system has
much a. the South commented the war
for Slavery, it was clear 20 every one, es-
pecisliy after the last Proclamation of
President Lincoln that the North was
now fighting against Slavery. He there
fore thanked the Government and the
constituencies, of, The Government for
preserving them from intervention; and
he thanked the people of Lancashire that.
under great temptation and provocation,
they had done more than any other
Englishmen to KEEP on the right side of
the question" Applause