The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-11
Mr. bancroft and Earl Russell.

W men WI. DhICLOiL > ulchlOIldi pttCu
on Mr.. Lincoln reached London, where
it was generally published, Earl RUS
sell, in a note TO Minister Adams, took
exceptions to the following language
used by Mr. Bancroft:
The British Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs made haste t. send
word through the palaces of Europe
that the great Republic was in It's
agony, that the Republic was no more,
that a headstOne was all that remained
due by the law of nations TO the late
Union
Earl Russell quotes this passage, and
adds:
GAS words pronounced on such an
occasion and by so eminent man as
Mr. Bancroft, may have an effect far
beyond the injury which my personal
character might suffer, | must request
you to convey to Mr.. Bancroft my de-
NAL of the truth of his allegations, and
to refer him to facts OF g totally Oppo-
site character
Soon after the news of the resistance
in arms of the Southern States TO the
Government of the Union arrived ar
rived in this country, member of the
House of Commons stated that the but
ble ofrepubhcanism had burst.
al replied in the same debate that
the bubble of republicanism had not
burst, and that if the curse of slavery
still hung about the United States, 1t
was England who had made the gift of
the poisoned garment which was now
their torment
4" In fact, / have never had any doubt
that whether the United States con-
scented to separation or pursued the war
to extremity, the great Western Repub-
lie would remsin, happily for the world,
a powerful and Independent Republic.
Mr. Adams sends the letter OF Earl
Russell to Mr. Bancroft and the latter
replies thereto. In regard to the act
of criticiling Great Britain severely in
his speech, for which Mr. Bancroft has
been condemned, he says;
at was my unavoidable duty to refer
to the conduct of the British Govern
ment toward our country during his
administration, for nothing so wounded
his feelings, or exercised his judgment,
or tried his fortitude.
81 was asked to address the two
Houses of our Congress, and those only.
When / learned that the British Minis
ter at Washington was likely to be one
of my hearers, l requested Mr.. Seward
to advise him not 10 be present. and
through another friend d sent him a
similar message, which he received and
perfectly understood.
n tho vyorCg faI T.,
Earl Russell, Mr.. Bancroft quotes de
spatch from the British secretary 10
Lord Lyons, and one to Earl Cowley, the
Minister at Paris. The dispatches Mr.
Bancroft gives in full, and summarizes
them as follows:
ION the h day of May, 1861, Lord
John Russell, then Secretary of
| State for Foreign Affairs, wrote de-
spatch to Lord Lyons, in which he de-
| scribes the condition of America as
the disruption of a conlederacy," and
/ he further used these words Civil war
| has broken out between the several
States of the late Union. The Govern
ment of the Southern portion has duly
constituted itself Her Mjestys Gov
eminent do not wish you to make any
mystery of that view Here is ire
fragable proof of my first allegation
"On the day on which the Minister
/ of the Queen thus wrote, he addressed
/ a despatch to Lord Cowley, her Males
tvs ambassador at Paris, designating
! our Republic as the States which lately
/ composed the American Union the
! late United States; the late Union;
and he inclosed in that despatch, for
/ Lord Cowley instruction, a copy Of the
above cited letter 10 Lord Lyons
/ Having thus ostentatiously commune
Gated his view of our country as the
late Union, he asked in return to be
made acquainted with the views Of the
Imperial Government My second al e.
/ legation is therefore true in letter and
in spirit
"rhat Lord John Russell, IS Secre-
tary of State, was in haste to do this,
appears from his not having awaited
the arrival of the American Minister OF
| Mr.. Lincolns appointment and from
those very letters oil the 9th of Nav,
/ 1861, to Lord Cowley and to Lord
/ LYONS, for IN those letters he confesses
that be had not as yet received from
4 Lord Lyons any report of the state OF
affairs and of the prospects Of the sew
eral parties; but that on coming to the
decision which was so momentous and
unprecedented, he acted on the reports
OF some consuls, and OF the public
prints
Mr. Bancroftthen refers TO the ALE
cations above quoted from the letter Of
Earl Russell, and says:
at is true that tweniy-four days az
ter Lord John Russell had officially de-
scribed our country, as the disruption
of a Confederscy, the late United
States, the late Union, he reproved a
member of the House of Commons for
openly exulting that the great Repub-
hcan bubble IN America had burst, and
owned that the Republic had been for
many years q great and free state; but
he uttered 10 expectation or hope Of
the restoration of our Union, and Fath-
er Intimated that the Americans we're
/ about TO destroy each others hAppi-
ness and freedom Lord John, on that
! occasion, rightly attributed the rebel
lion TO the accused institution of
slavery, and confessed that England