The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-21 00:00:00

The Presidential Contest in America.

BALTIMORE, June 6.
An Englishman in New York, unless he be a lord
or a Dissenting minister, with Republican "procli-
vities," and strong opinions on the subject of negro
slavery, finds few friends. He is an alien, an enemy,
a person ignorant of everything but the unimpor-
tant concerns of his own little island ; and one who

is supposed on the stage, in the newspapers, and in
such cultivated society as the pace affords to inva-
riably misplace his aspirates, and to call himself a
" Hinglishman." It is very different in Baltimore.
To be an Englishman is to be furnished with a
perpetual passport to the good will and favour of
everybody of any note in the place—except the
military governor and his subordinates—who hold

the city by the strong hand, and repress in every
possible way the opinions and feelings of the inha-
bitants. The Baltimoreans are proud of their Eng-
lish descent, their English manners, their English
hospitality, and their English sympathies. If ever
they have an ill word to say against England, it is
because they are angry with the British Govern-
ment for not having recognised the independence of
the South, and so expedited their own deliverance
from the Northern Union. They take care, however,
to distinguish between the people and the Govern-
ment in the blame
which they cast upon Lord Rus-
sell and Lord Palmerston, and look forward to the
day, long though it may be in coming, when the
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mother country and her Southern children—more
truly hers than the mixed breed of Europe that have
peopled and overrun the North—shall be united,
not alone in sympathy, but in commercial and poli-
tical In short, Baltimore loves the Eng-
lish as much as New York hates them, and hopes,
when free trade with England shall follow the re-
cognition of the South, to become one of the first
commercial cities of the American continent, and to
rival New York in influence and hospitality, Bal-
timore is as inimical to all that is Yankee as
wond or Charleston, and were it not for the presence
of a large military force, which is in possession of
Fort I‘l'_Flenry, and could reduce the city to ashes
in an hour, if it threatened to revolt against the
depotism which it abhors, it would hoist the Con-
federate flag, and invite the Southern army to enter
and hold it. Maryland, of which it is the pride
and the emporium, has at this moment no less than
20,000 of her sons in the Southern army,
fighting,
without the inducement of bounty money or any
mercenary consideration whatever, for the cause of
Southern Independence ; about double the number
that she has raised for the Northern armies, not-
withstanding all the bounties offered by the Federal
Government and the municipalities, and the sums
contributed by the rich to avoid the risk of a con.
seription. The 20,000 are for the most part natives
of Maryland; the 8,000 or 10,000 in the Federal
army are mainly
Irish or Germane, with whom the
bounty is everything and the cause nothing;
together with negroes and the freed slaves of " dis.
loyal" owners. The ladies of Baltimore, renowned
as being the handsomest in America, a tradition of
olden time, which the passing glance of the stranger