The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-28 00:00:00

LUNDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1861

FROM Oct. 5, The ATHEN.EUM has been
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FRASER'S MAGAZINE fur JANUARY,
tk ad.. contains:
'Malaita! Thalatts I—AStudy at Sea. By the author of "Cata.
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Batty Scottish Poetry. By Shirley.
Concerning the Weihrs Opinion : with doom Thbulihts ou
Cubed Peopb. By A. A. B
A Yew borate on tbe Marriage law rd the Empire.
Santa Teresa.—A Psychological Study.
Barren honour. —A Talc. By the Author of Guy Living-
alma" svc..rd and Gown," &c. L'hapters XI.—XIII.
A Omsk Ballad.—Maps and Dart h.
Questa
Ilax Mils, on the Science of Language.
The Mese of lat.
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while the President believes that while we inlet in
Providence we should show ourselves worthy of the trust,
and therefore he is willing to leave to Congress the
duty of providing for them wh the emergency
arias The President is anxious that some provision
should be nude for these runaway slaves before the fortune
of war overruns the conetry with them. We know that
the army has been *shunned with these runaway fugi-
tive@ ; and shell we pour open them the whole four millions
at owe, without any prevision whatever having been made '
for their ultimate treatment? Now, thee, if such a law as
this is newsman, why nem it upon the cossideratke of this
how? Is it desirable that this house should be divided
upon this vexed question, which everybody knows bee emu-
pied the stiestios of Congress sod of the country ever
since the formatioe of the government? Is it necessary
that we shall draw up* ourselves such a question as this,
upon which argument is almost unlimited, and upon which
all that ma be said on both sides has been said? If, then,
it is neneeeseary, it is ungeoeirous, for the respoosible
majority of this boos to force continually upon us the
necessity of seeming to go against our country or else
of rot* spinet our consommes. If the gentlemen are
anion of . making sure that the President and the military
authorities shall have ample powers to do what they admit '
martial law gives them the right to do without legislative
enactment, why do they not come out with the repeal of the 1
Habeas Corpus Act, and why do they not strengthen the
kneds of the President to exercise undoubted power over
the rights of the free met of the North, instead of urging a ,
passage of • law which he don not end, to give Wm nth°. I
rity one the rebels of the South? I voted spinet theism-
*Woe referring to the Habeas Corpus Act, set balsam I
desired to hamper the President, bet because I know then
an assemean when • men map tithe the mrooliklaby of
Wig at nos and thoroughly, sad lam leMeg tub=
ask the Pessideut, when he assumed so very ,
a pent se thee, must kss had Per Ms at-
tios—ressoerquile sk tit * ! Why should
gentlemen opposite Moo tribes adt hese of the '
1 President with reference to dealing the'progert of
the South, if they de not deem it Id INsgthee
his hands with reprd lo the Wen , which
he assumes to exs, sod which to if
it bolos* to anybody! It is ungracious es, who ste will. I
lag to go as far and sacrifice just as mnell%Oritalatifii tads
government as gentlemen on the other_ side, nhirterge this
measure upon us. knowing it to be obeen to us, and
spinet the principles which we have voted sII cies lien.
But if ungenerous to us, how much more *generous is ft
with our friends—the loyal men who rodeo in the dive-
holding States? It is easy for * to pm* about=
because our intimate and assocUtlons take es i
to the goveromeut. Yet our friends in the shisholding
States have come up as nobly as we have to wensab this
government, at the imminent peril of their Sven sad weer
thing they hold dear. And must they be coutionally dis-
gusted and incensed by this eternal probing of :nee engaged
is the philanthropic life business? (Laughter.) There is
we thing proposed by this isolation which we musk held.
A large majority of the millers of our army are apriond
to this antislavery agitation. • Can you suppose itc=lse
extremethat the miasma' as be forced through
without deencralidlagitheletekt, the 'majority of the len of
which have been educated all their lives in the ides that
the slavery setae& was 'repeatable, sad who 4011111 that
she state of Ilias whisk sow exists, that the sole aid
ealy cause el all ear troubles, I. due to the
usitiatin of the slavery quessice ? Let it be tuale=
let it be read ia the camps that this war is presented,
.as was more then intimated by the gestlemea from Mims-
edema* for the euliaction of slavery, nod I tall you, gese
them, wherrarilielieve sae or met, that the power of
your ar is
Mr. Coe way (mjill.titel Hubris, aciataildsd that the opsdkt
whisk has been ping for sin essatha, has changed
its original ebenetess From an Anna to Pat ra as
hiermseretke it bee settled tato ciele• war. • have
set eassmslessd law enemy is any in which we have
wen as eminsVe notary. the exception of
the seinelekes to Ws -,miens, se the Southsca
e.rar aim seenwhees ban ensiestee, notwilh-
Mwat
wee valibitee displased a panto rat*
The of the Orellenput hne
/bun deisalnik emMur=ashthe alawai wish I.l=
• belligerent in vlorespilog. of
Wily to the Federal Melee. How, thee,
mould they here - rights under the coutitstees
which the gesusemest is bound to respect, while
they sande, the rights of belligerents, anise
from isewmpali Winona? We ease* Wei them
as agog Instil w they ars,
warring upon let , la OW
ves
ftie the* power *1 mid its lust tor elowilakin
', wdillould serer the acethisese. with tie bleak pen. It
was Lassa that nest interposed a bonier to the despotic
We sad eland the denotes' tido el sinewy. Notary los
szistioalorgin en law_aseals tin not ala=z
Inaba, elleisny wens, bless
power nib will seam The
.prieciple ea which the war is
conducted by the adsoinistrauou wosid rinses slaver', to its
former relation to tine Union. Anis would dissann
similar to the peewee result, and the mums which now ope-
rate would in the future involve ns is the horrors of cavil
war. The old issue would revive with all its political
earnestness. The essocipation of the sieves should be de-
clared as a military necessity.
The matter then dropped, and the holm adjourned till
Monday.