The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-06-20
Blockade RHHnIng-The French would
not Engage In it.


Ia 1852, Ii Col Fremantle, Of the
Eagiish army, made g tour through the
insurrectionsry States. He has pub
I5hed a book telling Whist be saw there,
aud expressing ais views Of men and
thiogs Bjoskade running vas a part
Of the rebel programme in which many
Of his fellow subjects were interested,
aud he seems 10 have looked into the
matter with n keen relish of the good
thing they were mixing of it. In
speaking of the business, however, he
places on record 3 fact creGitable 10 the
French lie says When 1 was at
Charleston. I asked Nj. Robertson
whether any French vessels had run
the blockade. Iu reply he told me it
was q very peculiar fact that 'one Of
the partners Of Frazer & Co, being q
Freedman, gas extremely anxious to
engage a French vessel in the trade
Expense was no object; the ship and
the cargo were forthcoming nothing
YES wanting but a French captain and
s French crew 10 make the ship legal
ly FrenchE but although any amount
OF money was offered as an inducement
they were not to be found, and this OBJ
stacle was insurmountsble' The fact
here mentioned occurs in a book TEEN
log with the most rancorous prejudices
againstous republic, and it speaks more
vehemenuy than any words we can ut
ter. Colonel Fremantle observes, mot
the slightest difficulty is experienced
a. Liverpool in Offering and manning
any number Of ships for this purpose"
which, of course, every one knows to
Be true.
The Philadelphia North American
comment NC on this, very Justly says
TIE difference between the conduct Of
the two nations toward US during the
war has indeed, been both marked and
remarkable The French have gener-
ally and honorsbly abstained from aid
ING our adyersaries, and although many
Of them doubted our ability to subdue
so gigantic a revolt, they threw no OBJ
stacle IN the way OF our doing 80.
EGteTer We may say and think o.
The conducto Of the Emperor Napoleon in
Mexican affairs, the French nation has
beenfriendly 20 US throughout the con-
test, and the noblest panegyrics on our
attitude yet written were those of such
FroEchmsn - Gaspsrin, Cochin, Labou-
laye, and Montalambert The excuse
Of the English for blockade-running
&C, Fs that they cannot control the Gu
pidity Of some glasses Of their people
And yet The French have suppressed
their cuPidity, although it is well known
that they are as keen in the pursuit of
pecuniary gain ss the English. We
Present this contrast to tho world as a
sufficient tegt Of the relStive sentiments
Of the tEo nations.
had the rebelious States stood alone.
% they would have done had the En-
glish acted as ~honofably as the French,
the war could not have lasted half so
long as i did. That il was so protract,
a we owe 70 the backing it had in
EaglGud, and after having successfully
fought through such a contest, and
achieved what the best military critics
In Europe deemed impossible, it would
be sheer folly in us now to omit telling
the world what is emphatically true,
that The resources which sustained the
rebellion we've English, and that in
this VAT We were doomed 10 fight the
money power of England superadded
n the cotton power Of the south. The
deient, therefore, which has now befal.
lsn the south IS not lees & humiliation
81 Tie English, who threw every Oh
stac-e they possibly could in the way of
q success, and furnished our adversa-
rss with arms, munitions of wsr, ships,
Hrrchsndise,a base of operatioHs against
our northern frontier, a base for the
c~ontraband trade and the money to
corrupt European agencies Of influence
and northern agencies of domestic or
position.
il IS asking entirely too much of us
now 70 expect that we shall either for
get or ignore these ,hings The wide
dihufion II the facts Is essential 10 a
proper understanding of the real ps.
turo Of "a struggle and victory.
England wil never have 80 great 4
clance FOR our humiliation as she has
had In this war. She can herself put
IN the field no such armies as the south
did Tor four years. Her best efforts in
The way Of naval ornaments have been
furnished to the rebels, and have been
destroyed by our invincible navy. She
troubled herself oyermuch about Us
the whole contest, and now she
need not hope to escape her share of
the humiliation Of defeat
Hr. Seward and President LIncoIp,s
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