The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-08 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 8.

Tee last advice. from America announce the
arrival of Mr. Levuoth at Washington. Never
did country stand more in need of a ruler than
the States in the last week of February, 1861 ;
and never were nobler elements of power ready
to the hand of a statviman than those which are
to test the capacity of the new Pam DENT. it is
becoming more and more evident that it is not by
any number of separate compacts founded on the
special interests of individual or associated Stake
that the cause of the Union is to be served. The
Morrill Tariff Bill, a costly bribe offered to
Pennsylvania by the Northern States, is a melan-
choly example of such mean bargaining. What
all America wants, and has been anxiously wait-
ing for, is the declaration of a national po-
licy from the only man who is entitled
to address the entire American people with autho-
rity. It may be, AI Mr. JEARANON Davis, the
President of the "Confederacy" patched up at
the South, asserts, that " the separation of the
" South from the old Union is complete, and no
" compromise, no reconstruction, can now be en-
" tertained." A President of a new Confedera-
tion is not worth his salary if he is not ready to
bold language like this. But for all that, the
doings at Montgomery have a Unionist air. The
violent South Carolina men who brought on the
secession have been paned over in the appoint-
ments, It must have been to conciliate some
strong pecifie interest in the South that Mr.
Semi ewe, of Georgia, who has been a declared
Unionist from the beginning of these troubles,
was elected to the Vice-Presidency of the Confede-
ration. The Southern agitators hare a keen sense
of the feebleness of their position. Al long as the
excitement of esounion lasted they were tolerably
awe of their ground. But now it is over, and
people are asking what out, they perceive their
danger. For what have they done t They have,
se far as their sets are worth anything, volun-
tarily cut off their Staten from the only connexion
which gave them political dignity or credit. As
long as they were confounded in the grand total of
American nationality they shared the high and
noble piece which its vigour, freedom, and en-
lightenment secured it in the regard of the world.
All this the South has lost. It has not only
isolated itseU, bet in the madness of fanaticism hes
founded its constitution on that very social festers
which is most odious in the eyes of the civ jawed world.
It has abused the name of republic to set up a
confederation which men are already calling New
DeA.niu,y, with a If iseinippi repesilinlor for ifs'
chief, and a band of professed duelist, adven-
turers, sharks, and public plunderers for its
leaders. Bad as the South is proved to be by the
fact of its slavery, we may be quite sure that the
Wiorsua, Stiemso, Yseeses, and Benaannits
eannot fairly represent either its morality or
las elateseaseehip. These men only condeeeisid to
lead the South because they ass net perieneed to
loot the North any longer, end, if time is given
them, they will exhaust and disgust the Move
States just as they have wearied and angered lie
Free. Their names and antecedents are a pledge
that while they are at the head of affairs the mese
of the Confederacy will be cue of turbulence,
bad faith, sod intrigue or conquest for the tram-
Men of gamy. Their language is that of men
who feel that the very principle of their associa-
tion eats them off from a noble future. From
Wag part of a glorious nation they have become
a joise.doek corporation for upholding and extend-
ing the easiensment of their fellow man.

Pros men like these Asaansis bets:dig darns
es day hoes night. Men of all parties in whom
the capacity to admire what is manly and true is
Doi extinguished, do homage to his character, and
even the organ of New York ruffianism is awed
into something like decency when he is in question.
His progress from Springfield, in Illinois, to
Washington has beau • long ovation. Be
has gained upon every audience that has
seen him. Even the New Jersey Legislature, the
majority of which is not Republican, promises him
its strong support. What appears to have most
won upon the A merican public is his calm, equable
temper, a strong desire for peace and union, and
conjoined with these the firm language of civil
courage. One of the first things he said in public
after his election, and when he was told by the
South that ho would never take office upon the
principles laid down at Chicago, was, " I will
" suffer death before I will consent to any con-
" °anion or compromise which looks like buying
" the privilege of taking possession of the Govern-
" meat, to which we have a constitutional right."
He added, " But if hereafter the people desire to
" call • Convention to remove any grievances
" complained of, or to give new guarantees for the
" permanence of vested rights, it is not mine to
" oppose." Beyond this the millions who look
up to the new PRESIDENT for some word
which may disclose his governmental policy have
received no satisfaction. He has said that if he
can help to save the country on the principles of
liberty contained in the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, be shall consider himself the happiest man
in the world ; but that, rather than give up those
principles, ho will give up the country ; he has
said that, to preserve peace, " it may be necessary
"to plant the foot firmly ;" and people have
freely drawn inferences from these and similar
expressions. But it is probable that Mr. LINt VEY
could hardly have explained even to himself the
exact plan in which these intentions were to be
realised. That a last effort will be made to
save the Union there can be little doubt.
Peaceful separation is much talked of in England,