The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-29 00:00:00

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TO OUR READER

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
• Ule edition of the /byres, is published every
evening during the racing season, containing the
remits of the day's mew

Wit often hear discussions on the connexion be-
tween the American war and slavery, a topic on
which notoriously the greatest differences of opi-
nion prevail in this country. In default of direct
evidence on this point, which evidently belongs
even more to this providential direction of
events than to the intentions of men,
we may do well to look at the celebrations
of the Ist of August, kept as a festival by the
Abolitionists of the United States, in commemora-
tion of West India emancipation. This year's
celebration hail been looked to with eagerness by
all who want to know what to think about the
sirens and prospects of the civil war and the set-
tlement of the Union ; and the addresses of emi-
nent men were sure to be more intently listened
to, and more zealously distributed, than ever
before. In return for American complaints of
want of sympathy in tho English, English friends
bad already asked what they were to think and
expect, so long as the I'RI24IIOENT's Messages and
the debates in Congress omitted all mention of
slavery, and every mail brings a bushel of Amur-
maces that nothing will be done about slavery, be-
cause it has nothing to do with the " rebellion."
It is felt everywhere, in America certainly, and
we hope in England, that slavery is the beginning,
middle, and end of the whole mischief ; and it is felt
everywhere, in America if not here, that slavery is
virtually at an end in that country, became there
is no possible arrangement which can make its con-
tinued existence practicable. These are points of
agreement. The points of difference are very
striking, and were broadly exhibited on the let of
August.

The band of Abolitionists proper in the United
States have been truly a band of brothers in their
spirit of self-sacrifice during their 30 years of prober
tion by hardship. From the accomplished gentle-
man, sacrificing his career and position in society,
to the humble clerk or artisan who sacrificed his
bread, all have been a true glory to their country
while the nation was undecided between two
issues. Now that the character of the probation
is changed, the differences which exist among
all congregated men are showing themselves very
instructively. We must mark these signs of the
times and the men, if we hope to sympathise
with the right, or rightly to understand the issue,
whatever A may be ; and the public speaking on
the let of this month gives us just whit we
want.

As might be expected, the most enlightened and
sagacious men are the most adequate to the new
time, and answer best to the new tests. Though
persecuted in their own towns up to the 4th of
March (by hirelings of the South acting upon the
fears of the most conservative part of society)
they have already forgotten their wrongs, and
buried in oblivion the offences of their neighbours.
Careful above everything not to quench the amok •
ing flax, nor turn back any who would now march
by their side, they are silent about themselves,
genial with their neighbours, forbearing with the
government, and entirely occupied with the question
bow best to accomplish the removal of the peat
curse of their country. They perceive that any
Congressional action, and any official notice from
the PRVIDCNT, would probably raise the slaves in
insurrection at once, and bring on that asrvtls war
which they, and they alone, have hitherto averted.
They, who have been called fanatics for thirty
years, now cheerfully submit to the charge, brought
by the real fanatics, of being time-servers. The
old leader, the unfaltering and unchangeable
Gauntness, is still at the head of the little band—
steady and serene and sagacious as ever. Those
who speak and act differently are man no less de-
voted, but of a less calm temperament, and, on
that account, less accurate views, and a lees genial
temper. These are the men who cannot believe in
the aincenty of England, who criticise every act of
their own Government, prophecy dismal things in
all directions, celebrate anew the past sins and
defaults of their neighbours, and repel them from
co-operation in their day of repentance and amend-
ment• There is so much individuality among the
Abolitionists, as among other American., that
it would be rash to point out any leaders
as samples of • Clads ; but G•1111140:4 always
was and always will be truly regarded as leader in
the redemption of the negro population in Ame-
rica, and, as a direct consequence, of the liberties
of the citizens of the republic. On the other
hand, Mr. Wzsriztz. Pniti.irm has chosen to make
himself the spokesman of the narrower and more
superficial order of the abolition party. His ad-
dress at Abile;don, Massachusetts, on the lit of
August, will be read with surprise and regret by
multitudes who have been wont to delight in his
striking oratory ; but that is a small considera-
tion in comparison with that of the mischief he is
doing in misapprehending the state of affairs him-
self, and misleading others whose coot gious psi-
sion seems to have perverted his judgment and
feelings at a time when his soundness of faculty is
most important. He excited surprise some weeks
ago by proposing the annexation of Canada to the
Union, to balance the territory of the South.
Now he &meows, as one of the ground■
of his vaticinatiotui about the conflict, that
England will or dues render secret aid to
the Southern Confederacy, in money and amts,
having nothing so mach at heart as the severance
of the Union, in order to destroy the manufactures
and commerce of the North ! While his neighbours
have been haunted by an uneasy dream of Eng-
land's countenance of the South, Mr. Penilw
seems to be oppressed by a nightmare of appre-
hension. The occasion of the address being N% est
India emancipation, he begin with extolling that