The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-01-17

SscessIonIsm In YeK Englnnd.

BDNtbhlUnlhLu Ia NV HHE AUius
Dir. Z A Pollard, editor Of the
Richmond Examiner, was captured on
blockade runner last May, wac
brought to Boston, where he enjoyed
the freedom of the city for time and
the hospitality and communion of the
Democratic leaders In his History of
the Third Year of the War, he has
added an appendix giving an account
OF his Boston experiences. His &C
count furnishes an interesting and in
side view of the real principles Of the
leading Democrats II our midst lie
SAYS
passed q week in Boston, entirely
unknown and secluded, when an ipci-
dent occurred that WAS TO open up to
me new and surprising interest in
this Yankee metropolis. | was saun-
tering il the reading room Of the no
tel tYoung's) one evening, when an
amiable looking gentleman came up
to me, with beaming face, are you
not Mr. Pollard, from Richmond 2
/ was 50 taken aback by the plump
question that / could not help answer
ing Yes" l thought so, he replied
quickly; ''some detectives mere know
You hush, talk low want you to
let me bring q friend around to see
you at nine o'clock this evening.
signifed my assent, and awaited with
some interest an interview about which
there appeared to be soma mystery.
A nine o'clock / received in my
chamber the gentleman who had so
uncerem0niously introduced himselfto
me, and who was, indeed, 20 prove q
friend, accompanied by a gentleman
whose name was already familiar to me /
as one who had suffered for his early z
and brave sympathy with the C0nfed
cracy in this war There are obvious .
reasons why should not mention here /
the names Of those friends or other /
sympathetic persons in Boston after /
wards found who surprised me, not
only by tho warmth snd delicacy Of
their personal kindness, but By their
sentiments for my country.
The next day it was insisted that
should be introduced to a number OF
persons in Boston who sympathized I
with the South, and some of my couu-
trymen will be surprised to learn that
to meet these persons | was car
RED to the Merchants Exchange, to !
the Offices OF leading lawyers, and TO /
some Of the largest business establish {
ments in Boston. l may say that in 4
the course of two or three DAYS / met
at least one hundred gentlemen in Bos- [
ton, among its most influential classes I
who expressed TO me an ardent sympa- I.
thy for.the South in her struggle for 1
constitC tionsl liberty, and an earnest /
desire for the acknowledgment Of her /
Independence the only possible term
inatiOn of the unnatural and unhappy /
war
What was made a private witness /
of in Boston was sufficient to satisfy |
any candid mind that the Southern |
Confederacy had party in the North |
of devoted and intelligent friends emit I
tied 10 her consideration and graf
itude
In short l had discovered CIRCLE of
"secessionists" in Boston, and had been
cursing the black deserts Of heertless
crowds before my ewes. without the
least thought that IL contained an oasis
for the despised Confederate I was
overwhelmed with kindness BY my
newly foundfriends; offered a testinls
NAL dinner, which | peremptorily de
clined invited 70 charming country
places and subj ban rides Alas, from
this amicable diversion my thoughts
were to be turned into q channel Of
bitterness.
The channel Of bitterness" TO which !
Mr. Pollard alludes is a figure of speech
for a strong fertilization overlooking |
the channel of Boston harbOr, TO which [
he was soon committed Here, Mr.
Pollard kept 2 journal, in which he re. I
cords mis- opinions, his daily expert .
ences, his disgust Of Yankeedom, and I
his spondence with rebel womeu;
and he further obliges us by printing
the whole Here Is a specimen:
July =: We had quite a discussion /.
in our mess today. One of the compa- +
ny remarked that In South Carolina s /
mechanic was not respected SO ne I
should be. / took occasion to advance I
some peculiar notions of my own That /
the democracy of the North was sn ut /
terly false one, being an insolent asser- /
ton Of equality, a sort Of ''d---n you, / /
am good rs YOU are, which placed two /
classes IN society in an exssperated and /
bitter contest, that was constantly go /
ing on in Ysnkeedom beneath the out /
ward semblances Of its social laws /
that this insolent democracy was espee-
tally the product of free schools, that !.
educated the population just to the I
point Of irreyerence and egotism; that !
IN the South there vas to be found he
most perfect democracy in the world. 4