Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-05-25

vidual members of the Legislature
special classes Of the community
, certain politicians of eminence, par.
ticular organs in the press, did, il
their private capacity, synpathize
with the beaten cause? And fol
} this sin--this expression of feeling
strictly within that individual com.
petence and right which is never
questioned except by the most in
tolerant of despots-the English
nation, in its corporate capacity, is
expected to atone and apologize
| With respect. to the cession OF
Canada, the London STANDARD
4 closes a long article on the subject
by saying
" We cling to our colonies for
our own sake, but in spite of this
we cling to them on one condition.
We are only prepared 20 insist on
the maintenance Of the bond between
us as long as each colony, for her
own sake desire its maintenance
too. If the Canadians de-
sire to throw off such control as
the British government exercises
over them, they are free to do so
but that control shall never be re-
signed at the dictate of foreign
power Never mind what the con
SCIENCES of a refusal to submit to
such dictation may be, the national
pride of England is not yet dead,
the national honor is not yet sui |
lied, and it will be utterly vain for |
the Americans to imagine that
while the inhabitants of the British
provinces across the Atlantic re-
main true and attached to their
allegiance the frontiers of Canada |
can ever be outraged by troops of I
the United States at less cost
than that Of a war with the whole
power Of Great Britain
So then We are given TO under
stand, both directly and indirectly,
that England is not disposed to
concede in this Alabama controversy
any more than she has already con-
ceded. fit be pertinaciously in
sisted upon that she shall aclnowl-
edge her moral, as well as legal re-
sponsibility to the United States,
and that for her shortcomings in
both respects she is bound TO make
by a humiliating apology
in the one case, and by consenting
to be muleted in exemplary dam
ages in the other, the ultimate re-
sult-judging from the tone of the
journals and the temper in
which such proposition has al
ready been receiYed--ean scarcely
fail to be point blank refusal, and
probably war.
Are the Radicals prepared for this
Let them buster as
they may, they can hardly be blind
10 the consequences. The country
is now staggering under a load of
taxation which is difficult to bear.
The condition in which the South
has been placed by Radical intrigue
makes that section a source Of
weakness rather than Of strength.
The whole financial system of the
government depends for its support
On popular confidence. Take that
away, and the entire edifice, ricketty
Is it is already, would fall with
crash. Even now the
Dondholders, keen enough to scent
he danger Of the situation, have
been urging upon the administra
ion the imperative necessity of
,onciliatory foreign policy; for they
well know that although Canada
might be seized, and much damage
done to English commerce, yet that
the struggle would be severe, the
injury to trade incalculable, and
victory in the end was with
England or the United States, the
probable consequence of the war
would be the reputation Of the
public debt, whilst the adjustment
of the Alabama claims would be as
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