Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-01
THE TRIPLE-ALLIANCE SEN
q Sse .SATION.

The story of the Alliance Of France,
Il spszn and England Against fhe
United states.
The following is the letter from Mr.
g. w. Smalley, to the New York
Tribune detailing the facts upon
which he based his dispatch to that
paper from London Of the formation Of
an alliance between France, Spain and
England against the United States:
LONDON, May l3.-The fact which at
this moment dwarfs all other facts is the
beginning of negotiations for an alliance,
offensive and defensive, between Eng
land, France and Spain against the
United States. This telegraphed to
you two days ago. 1t is still secret in
London. shall say nothing of the
sources Of my information, nor can | add
much TO the original statement do not
know who set this project on foot
whether it was started in England or
France; whether conceived in the brain
Of q usurper responsible already for so
many mischiefs, or by some British tool
Of his who iancies he has inherited the
mantle of Palmerston, and can add ans
other link to the many the old Premier
forged in the chain which binds England
to Napoleon. But it seems to have
sprung up suddenly. 1t was hatched
BY the heat Of English passion glowing
red hot against America these last
fourteen years OF course it grew out
Of the Alabama 1t matters little wheth-
er an English Minister, alarmed by the
sudden fear of meeting just demands,
turned for refuge to the old enemy of
England, or whether Napoleon, in his
alert way, volunteered the suggestion of
q new alliance. 1t is the fashion Just |
now in European circles to resent what |
is called the diplomatic arrogance of
America Napoleon nurses his anger
over the expulsion from Mexico. Spain
trembles for Cuba. England sees her
future darkened by the shadow that has
hung over her and paralyzed her ever
since the American war ended. Lulled
to sleep by Mr.. Reverdy johnson, she |
had been rudely awakened by Mr. Sum
ner. She breads to lose Canada and her |
West India possessions. More than one
public man has expressed his regret that |
England rejected the offer of Napoleon to
recognize the Confederacy. They think |
It still possible to retrieve, at least partly, |
that mistake. France has possessions
also in danger if Canada falls to the
Republic There is ST Pierre, hardly |
ten miles from the British coast,
nursery Of French seamen, at pet COS
lony, for one instance. So many
agree in recommending /
such an alliance that | need not show /
why the theory is probable; | have only |
10 say that the account of the. negotia~
lions came to me in way which seemed
20 credible that was not at liberty to
keep silence. | cannot tell how. far they
have gone, still less whether they will
over result in secret treaty. Bat BET
ieve they are in progress, and that if the
Alabama claims were to take the shape
If demand or a menace, the resistance
If England, which has become certain,
8 likely to be supported by France.
Whether crisis would be precipitated
" Intervention in Cuba may be more
doubtful point Ii is known that the
spanish government feel themselves
trong enough to repel aggression in that
quarter They have one, or it may be
wo iron.clads, built in England, equal
o the best ships ahoat in European
waters, and able to sink fleet of mOni-
ors with their shingled sides of soft iron
md their rickety turrets. Probably our
laval officers know well enough what the
act is. rr...I ...-. .. -..--tae.Izi
Icannot see that the popular feeling is
ess strong against what are now sup.
,osed to be the American demands. Nor
B it less strong in official circles, al-
hough one journal announces, as if by
authority, that no serious trouble is ex-
,ected don't suppose war is generally
in the cabinet or out, nor de-
tired except by the party l have before
JAILED the war party. But every trouble
hort of that is dreaded. | know the
ceiling Of the cabinet has been, and
continues to be, one of great anxiety-as
he mere existence of a scheme for
ripple alliance would sufficiently prove