The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-08 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The following ia an extract from a letter, dated
Boman, May 20 :

• • • I am astonished at the tone of the English press in
regard to the war, and its real or apparent ignorance of the
true hen. There is but one feeling throughout the free
states. Such • unanimity was never known before. All
the old parties are goer. All classes, all antioes, are
merged into one, with one mind and one purpose. Every man
feels that the choirs lies between a repression of the slave
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behalf of constitutional freedom against military despotism.
Never did any nation display a greater depth and earnest.
sees of loyalty towards its institution and lle ssg. It wee
not an empty boast of Jefferson Davis that on the Lt of
May he would held his presidential levee it Waghtagtolll
and perhaps before the year was out, raise the Sag of the
new confederacy over the state house at Berton.
Senator Wigfall declared that next winter the troops of
the South would occupy Philadelphia, whence the follow.
log teens they would ravage New Englard and hold a
sire. arket in Fantail Hall. These insolent threats en
not new to Northern OM. Many such have been heard and
borne with patience. For years a deep and widespread
conspiracy has been maturing in the South, aiming at an
oligarchical rule, the extension and ascendancy of slavery,
and the overthrow of our entire national system of govern-
meet. High officers of the government were it. &scion
and agents, and the criminal imbecility of Boehm= pee
full seeps to their trawl& It was by their macaronies, that
Lioceles administration was for a time rendered almost
helpless. Forts, arsenals, and mints were seised, sad private
debts, to a vast amount, due from southern to northern mer-
chants, were ordered to be paid into the treasuries of secedlog
abase. By such respectaide expedients the poverty-stricken
rebels sought to acquire the sinews of war. The patience sod
isagaderiag of the Moth wee probed to a point where
It eleeed be be a merit. At length came that greed
mime and Header of the southern leaders, the
*oak on Fart Sumter, one hundred men against one,
sad the preparation for an immediate advance on Weep-
ingtoe. Then the North awoke. Never did the world see
such en uprielng. More than three hundred thousand mat,
anted end ciegarrind, have been preened upon the accept-
ance of government—more than doable the number mini

for. Two hundred and thirty thousand, besides naval
forces, have been enlisted. Probably it is not too much to
say that a million of man in the free states
are now employed in the practice of military drill.
Bak onstspirit inspires them all,—to sustain the government
Mil defend the lag. Yesterday I met an old mechanic, a
quiet, sedate eel man, wills the determined look common in
New England. "My boy is off to the war," he said, " and
the old man will go too, if he in wanted." A soldier in one
of the new regiments said, pointing to the flag, " I don't
know what to make of the change that has come over
me. I have seen that flag a thousand threes,
and 'never thought mach about it, but now I s►all
be glad to die for it." A bedridden old woman at Warble-
beta JP.htd that hes..sielhad enlisted. "I wish," she
answered, ' / Let sons to go with him." A young
lady, about to be married to an officer of volunteers, urged
him to go to the war, confirmed his wavering purpose, waved
her handkerchief to him with a smile as the regiment
passed in the street below, then swooned u soon as be was
out of sight, and lay two hours insensible. Poor women,
living by their daily work, contribute their mite
to the equipment of the troops or the support
of their families. Wealthy merchants give money
by thousands and tens of thousands. The heart of the North
beats with one pulsation, and a deep resolve to uphold the
constitution and vindicate the cause of social and political
freedom inspires all alike. There is no animosity towards
the mass of the Southern people ; and while all look for-
ward to an assured success in a righteous and most necessary
conflict, there is no fear that success will be used otherwise
than with forbearance and generosity.— Very truly yours,
F. P.

KESSAL-GREIN CEMETERY.