The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-13
nIore nritish Pronhecies-

Some of the British leaders having
survived their agqnizing disappoint
ment at the overthrow OF the feballion
they prayed for, paid for, and worked
Tor, have begun the business ofmakinr
gloomy prophecies The London
Times has set the music fer the grand
tory chorus and presently We shall have
all its echoes in full CRY. In a late
number Of that paper is an article
which not ven an Alteration OF fine
writing can save from contempt. tits
difficult TO decide whether the stupid-
lty or the venom OF the Times is most
disgusting. Take the following shame
less passage:
"tor the present the American Gov
eminent looks with neighborly pity on
the internal troubles Of Mexico. but Il
invites al nations TO take refuge in It's
charmed circle, and Mexico, We pre-
sumo, Is an expected ggest But what
system OF taxation, 0 even OF govern
ment, will serve equally for New Eng
land snd the ancient Empire, partly
Spanish, partly Indian, under a iropis-
al sum- The further the Union pushes
from its centre the more will It encoun-
ter that vast variety of conditions
which tax the utmost skill of Slate
craft md defy constitution-mongars.
When the material is widely different.
and the circumstances are still more 50.
the arrangement can never be symmet-
rieal, the Union perfect, or the work
ing quite smooth. Nor can anything
be done for all time when the materials
are ever changing The President
breaches to the States q homily upon
union, disinterestedness and mutual
forgiveness. They are TO acknowledge
only one sovereign-ihat Is, the Consti-
tuition of the whole Union. They had
better listen, for they must The con
demned felon will never hear another
sermon, so he may as well attend to
this. 1t is the only plan of life left
With all our heart WsaiYise the South
ern people TO accommodate themselves
to their hard circumstances"
This is something like the SILLY In
/ dams, who fred their arrows at the
sun in hopeso of being able to extinguish
il" TO employ one of Judah Beniamin's
figures, when he was showing the in
vincibility of the American Union
We are not unwilling to accept the adj
vice Of the English snobs, whether they
speak through the London Times, ca
lumniate in BlackwoCd, or bully from
the hastings. But we would counsel
them, in return, TO remember the fate
that befel their hopes when the slave
attack upon this Government was resist
ed and punished No leaders we're ever
surer that their predictions would be
fulfilled, aud no dupes were more
bid than those who believed in preten
tious oracles. Do these men suppose
that they will ever be forgiven by their
victimsl Have they fiattered them.
selves that the moral consequences oil
the war will not be felt all over Europe.
and nowhere more sensibly than in En-
gland, where the press and politicians
were subsidized 10 q system OF the
grossest falsehood and treachery in re
gard TO the United States? III they do
they will be fearlully and early mista
ken. There is nothing that viii hurry
their awakening to this stern reality
more than the catastrophe that is pre-
pairing to overwhelm their last and mos
disreputable exhibition, Of which the
above ID a fair specimen - Washington
Chronicle.