The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-01-14
fbC North Holding her In Contempt,
and the Rebels Regarding her with
Disgust.
IRON The R-aL.uosa whg. JAN

from the Richsuo5d Wing Jan. 4
Three Of our contemporaries seem to
be engaged in 8 controversy as to
whether IL would or would not be bet
ter 10 return IS col0nists 10 Great Brit
ain than to submit to the Yankees. We
have not paid TO this controversy the
attention which We usually accord to
the suggestions Of our neighbors, for
the simple reason that we can conceive
Of nothing more Improbable at this
moment, and IN our Circumstance
England cannot recolonize us if she
would, 8ad We think IL pretty certain
that she would not if she could IN
the beginning of this war If che bad
recognized US as she should have done,
and declared her determination to
compel q strict observance Of the rules
Of blockade, laid down by herself at
Paris, and subscribed by all the mari
time Powers of Europe she might easily
have put an end TO the struggle before
IT had been Pix months old The Yam
KEGS at that time held her in mortal
terror They were ignorant Of their
own strength, and held that of Eng
land in sn awe approaching superstition
She might nave dictated her own terms,
and they would have subscribed 10
them without hesitation. But Yam
keedOm has now a most undue opinion
OF its own strength, and a contempt for
the strength of England, warranted
only by the cowardly policy her Cabinet
has thought iit 10 pursue. ANY inter
ference OF England would be resented
AS On insult, and she has not the power
10 enforce any line of hostile policy she
may adopt She has allowed the Yam
KEGS to put their own coasts into such
state Of defence as 10 render them
uuassailable by her fleets She has no
ships that could encounter the Yankee
monitors with any prospect of success
and, although It Is easy enough for
her 10 build such, yet the probability
is that they would be able to
cross the ocean. Monitors are
made for coast defence, and not for
ocean navigation. She could not, then,
in ali probability, even break up the
blockade Of our ports, far less send an
army and feet here to assist US in dri-
wing away the Yankees, preparatory TO
return to colonial yassalage We think
it, therefore hardly worth while TO in
guire into the expediency OF returning
10 the arms Of Old England, seeing that
OLD England could not receive us il she
would We must eight It out with the
Yankees. The alternative presented is
death or slavery. We hope our people
have not yet come to that point that
they hesitate ia their choice.
Great Britain has been guilty of a
great blunder ia overlooking the claims
of the Confederacy TO her notice, and
IN trucking as she has done 70 the Yam
KEGS She has certainly neglected an
opportunity Of certainly humbling the
most formidable rival that she has in
the world, and has thrown upon US the
entire burden OF war in which she is
quite as much Interested as we. If the
Yankees could succeed IN subugating
US, the doom of Great Britain would be
sealed Before the year 1900 she would
have lost 81 her ships and all her colo
MES. Ireland would be torn from her
grasp, and she might tremble for her
supremacy even in England itself She
cannot avoid the war which Yankee
dom Is determined 10 force upon her.
by yielding and succumbing. That is
not the way 10 preserve peace. That ia
not the way that Napoleon I'll prevents
all Europe, IN body, from falling upon
MIN. He is always ready 10 strike,
and it is fer that reason that he seldom
has occasion TO don't So fsr from Ia
king us back as colonists, with the en-
CumbrauCe Of SUCH 8 way as we should
bring along with Us, England, If the
cOWardly counsel of the London Times
be worthy Of notice IS ready to give up
Canada as soon az the Yankees make
a formal demand The Confederate
States alone have the courage. 10 face
the whole power Of Gankeedom Il
seems more as though England should
one day become our colony than that
We should ever become here