The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-04

4 I ne Ffeslteut'> AcSsaSe IN England
e Admissions aud Excuses.
? From the London Times. uesem5z- &c.
The passage Ia President .f,hrso7-
message which especially concerns fhi.
country ought We think. u be sscspt
Ell IN q friendly spirit ua eauII no,
DO less than review the history NJ thz
Alabama claims and ia reviewing diem
he could hardly say les s.. least r., an
American Con gress, than he has ssi-l
: There are, however, some tbipgs .I,i,b
the President did no. saw, and wbien
} are, nevertheless, very material NJ
one can deny, for instance. chat atbf
accordance Of beligerent rights 10 me
insurgents was Unprecedented. Lord
Russell admitted as much in his c,g
respoudence with Mr.. Adams. but M 3
question is whether the civil war wa.
not unprecedented toe. whether the
United States did not assert bellirarent
lgnts' without consulting presidents.
oy declaring a blockade. aud whether
q neutral State could do otherwise than
ioAo" their example Farther. 10 IS
Pefiec'iy true, IS matter Of fact, that
Engiand furnished more efficient aid TO
! the Ooniederates than snv other Pow
ef. IL could not be otherwise, consjd-
ering that England, of all maritime
countries, lies nearest 10 America, and
Possesses the largest private docks in
the world; it is equally true that, be
ing also the best market for arms and
ammunition, she contributed more than
any other nation to the suppression Of
the rebellion. Again, It is an un6ouOt-
ed fact that cruisers bulls, though not
equipped, in our ports drove Ameri-
can commerce from the seas and trans
feTred it 10 neutral bottoms nor
can we be surprised that some
confusion should have existed, ia
the minds Of the merchants wdo suffer
ed thereby, between this consequence
and the motives of our Government
| 1t should have been rem enbered, how
! ever, even by those WHO were least dis
/ posed to rely on our good faith, that 10
! this respect the interests of orr sllp-
| owners were opposed 60 those OF every
| other class IA the community. Liver
/ pool does not dictate our national poii-
| cy to the exclusion of Manchester and
the great manufacturing districts, which
| lost far more by the continuance Of the
war than was ever gained by our mer-
| camille marine We ought moi. there
/ fore, TO be suspected ct iayOriug the
! creation of s. Confederate navy on sell
/ fish grounds, aud the failure OF our
/ Government TO prevent evasjons Of our
/ law IN one or two cases ought not to be
| recorded without some recognition of
! It's successful Intervention on other oc-
| cssiOus. The advocates of the Coaied-
crate States hsye never ceased to pro-
test against the oppressive construction,
as they allege which the law officers Of
| the Crown fastened upon the Foreign
| Enlistment Act, and the EMBARGO laid
| upon tina two irOl-cla8 rams was GER
| tainly an arbitrary exercise Of Eyecu-
/ tive authority. These considerations
/ should not be forgotten. even ina Amer.
| lea, ana the conduct OF Great B-ifoin
during period OF unparalleled dill
/ Guilty should be measured, not bT the
| losses inflicted on American trade, but
/ by the duties Of neutrality.
Mr.. johnson does no more than JUS
/ tice in attribusing TO US the same earu-
| est desire for peace which aa Processes
| himself Even when the causes OF mu-
/ Uual evaporation were at their height,
| there never was s war party in JE.s
| country. There were those who feared
( that war might he forced upon us rs 81
I dire necessity, but there wers none
( who deliberately contemplated shat
/ contingency without horror. Oar pa
/ cifc sentiments have not, indeed az
yet been tested by pr0yOcaJiOn as Sc
we're as that which the Americans at
one time fancied they had received,
/ but they are tested al this moment 10y
a grievance far from Imaginary. The
very same mail which brings as the
| Presidents Message to Congress, also
| brings US news OF very strange pro
/ ceedIug Within the territory of the
| United States We are duly informed
that s. Fenian Senat-, or rather "Hs
/ Fenian Senate is IN session nj New
| York, th,t the Eeniau President Is
about 20 issue bonds bearing tine sigma
ture of the Irish Republic and that
/ constitutional difficulty has arisen be
| tween him a1d the Senate ON this
| financial opera dOn, while in the mean
time the Governor of New Brunswick
| has received information OF an
]
province All this, We need
hardly say, is Of a piece with
what we have been hearing for months
| past, and We have ceased to be startled
by the intelligence that American citi-
zens are openly preparing tor an iuva-
sion of Her Majesy' dOminions under
the very eyes OF their government
There Is here no question Of neutaliLy,
for the rights and duties OF neutrality
are wholly derived from a state Of hos
tility; il is q simple case of individuals
| levying private war, without disguise,
against friendly Power The cruisers
| launched in British waters were at least
commissioned from Richmond Il was
thence that they received their orders
and thence, that they were provided
| with the sineWs of war. But Fsuiau-
ism is American from first to last-in
its origin, in its character, in its objects
in its organization. TO say that it has
its basis of operations in the United
States is little, for it is notorious that IL
derives from the United States its
whole strength and its very existence
| Why, then, 90 We not demonstrate an
grily against its being tolerated, and
demand redress at Washington Be
cause we know that President John
son ought not to be held responsible
for anything which the laws of a free
country do not enable him to check, or
for everything which they do enable
him to check, but which It might be
/ premature to check at the present
moment We do not ask, or need,
equal forbsarauce in respect Of our own
shortcomings, but only that which Mr.
johnson comedies to ", the credit of
having acted up to our own views Of
honorable neutrality.
ENGLAND 8 SELFISH POLICY
From TIE London Star, Dec. 10.
The important portion Of President
Johnson's message, so far as regards
Europe, Is his treatment Of the two
{ great questions in which ENGLAND and