The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-19 00:00:00

'lsi Genet al, it appeate, ari ived last eight, and had
an interview \I iiti General Dix. II is, however, the
current opluien that if neither of these officers
provoke a tumult at the polls, there will be none in
the city of New Yolk, and that it would have been
better for Mr Lincoln if he had left the redouteable
Butler at 1) itch Gap nutil after the election, inas-
much as his presence in New York, if it does not
wholly prove a desire on the part of the Adminis-
tration to overawe and bully the greatest city of the
Union, end treat as if it were no better than New
Orleans or Baltimore, goes far to confirm the pre-
valent rumour that the campaign in Virginia is E t
en end, that General Grant has been finally foiled
by General Lee; that Richmond is safe from fur-
ther attack until May, 1865, and that the army of
the Potomac is now to go into winter quarters.
Public meetings of both parties are daily and
nightly held; and, after to-morrow, the theatres
arid other places of public amusement will be closed
—not by official authority, but by the spontaneous
action of their managers and conductors, who find
it impossible to draw sufficiently remunerative au-
diences by any amount of attraction they can offer,
amid the whirl of political excitement which has
already commenced, and which by Monday next
will acquire its highest momentum. At these meet-
ings, whether held to favour the election of Mr
Lincoln or of General M'Clellan, the traditionary
American eagle metaphorically claps and spreads
its wings, and shrieks defiance to all enemies, fo-
reign and domestic ; and " buncombe" enough is
manufactured to last the world for a generation if
the article were only used in moderation. For the
most part these meetings require no particular no-
tice, but one of them deserves a word of mention on
account of the high character of the speakers, and
of the peculiar agencies which drew it together. It
was attended by some of the wealthiest and weightest
men in New Yo rk, and professed to be an embodiment
of the " true Democracy," the "War Democracy,"
and the " Union-at-all-he zards Democracy." Its ob.
int was to reorganise and purify the party ; to cast
from it the corrupt wire pullers who have hitherto
directed its movements, and diverted it from its an-
cient patriotism, and to establish a better system of
Presidential election's than that which has been in
operation since the days of Andrew Jackson, the
last chief magistrate elected for his genius and chile
meter, and not for his "availability." The meeting
was composed of somewhat discordant elements.
Among its originators were men who three years
ago publicly maintained that there was no power or
right inherent in the Federal Government to coerce
a State—much less any number of States—and that
if the South desired its independence the North
would do well to acknowledge it without bloodshed ;
men who were in favour of slavery where it existed,
but were opposed to its extension ; and men who
held, and Still hold, that slavery is the "sum of all
villanies," and that it is neither desirable ncr pos-
sible to restore the Union Rithout immediate uncon-
ditional emancipation. All these, with the addition
of large deputations from the multitudinous army
of "contractors," and from the smaller but equally
greedy army of manufacturers who are making co-
lossal fortunes out of " shoddy," by the aid of quasi-
prohibition of European goods which results from
a protectionist and all but prohibitory tariff, were
eloquent and unanimous in opposition to the pre-
tensions of General M'Clellan to sit either now or
hereafter in the chair of George Washington. The
voice of every one of them was for war—war to the
knife—war to the bitter end—war until the Sete, h
should throw down its arms, and humbly crave the
mercy and fotgiveness of its conquerors—a war
which they seem to think and perhaps rightly would
never be prosecuted with sefficient bloodthirstiness
by Gen. l‘Pelellar, Foremost among the speakers,
and roost eminent in character and ability,
though not, perhaps, the weightiest in the posses-
sion of greenbacks or real estate, was the Alder.
General Dix already mentioned. Instead of
delivering an extemporaneous speech—an oration,
as long speeches aro more commonly called—or one
of the pyrotechnic kind so fascinating to Americans,
and which his friend Mr George Francis Train,
who proposed him for the Presidency at Chicago,
is co great a proficient, the General read an elabo-
rate and well-argued treatise of his own composi-
tion, in which he promulgated certaln new doctrines
with regard to Presidential elections. He main-
tained that by the present system of party conven-
tions, unauthorised by the constitution, the best
candidate was not elected ; that the man of the
greatest genius and the purest character was set
aside in favour of some obscure politician, who, on
account of his harmlessness, had made fewer
enemies, and was, therefore, more " available" at
the last moment. He also urged that the constitu-
tion of the United States should be amended, so as
to throw the act of election directly upon the people,
and not diffuse it, as now, through the electoral
colleges of the States. He furthermore insisted that
it would greatly conduce to the public tranquillity,
and to the cause of good government, if the consti-
tution expressly forbade the re-election of a Presi-
dent. It might be supposed that the General, in
deference to his own convictions, would not support
the re-election of Mr Lincoln, and that if he could
not support the election of General M'Clellan, he
would do the next best thing in his power—if he
would not be wholly neutral—and recommend the'
electoral colleges to take no heed of the nominees
either of the Baltimore or the Chicago conventions,
but select from the public men of the country some
man of genius and character whom the convention
had excluded. But not so. The plan of General
D:x was proposed for future, not for present opera-
tion; and not alone his vote, but his influence and
his excess of zeal, are all to be cast in the scale in
favour of Mr Lincoln, who in his cool and philoso-
phic mood he thinks ought not to be re-elected.
Both parties continue to manifest the utmost con-
fidence that their candidates will be elected. But Mr
• Lincoln holds the winning cards. The cpposition in
Tennessee has unwisely given up the game, and,
rather than take the test oath of Governor Johnson,
has resolved to let the election go by default, for
which Mr Lincoln will doubtless be very much
obliged. Louisiana, Maryland, Kentucky, and
Missouri are considered safe under military mani•
pulation. To strengthen himself in the States, and
gain three electoral votes out of the 117 which evil
be necessary to give him the majority, he has be
proclamation admitted the territory of Nevada as a
new State in the Union to date from the Ist inst.
The law requires that a certified copy only,
signed and sealed, of the constitution of any
State desiring admission into the Union should
be deposited at Washington as a preliminary to
the consideration of its claim ' • but in the
case of Nevada there was so little time to lose
that the Constitution was telegraphed to Washing-
ton from the base of the Reeky Mountains at an
expense of 4,000 dole. With the exception of a
slight disturbance at Philadelphia and another at
Baltimore, where a crowd of minor officials and
others succeeded in breaking up a meeting in favour
of Gen. M'Clellan, everything as yet has passed off
quietly; and no one appears to entertain any serious
apprehension of riot or even of disturbance.

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