The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-23 00:00:00

vernor Randall and Judge Mills of Wisconson, Mr
Lincoln spoke as follows :
Sir,—. . . The slightest knowledge of arithmetic will
prove to any man that the rebel armies cannot be destroyed
by Democratic strategy. It would sacrifice all the white
men of the North to do it. There are now in the service of
the United States nearly 200,000 able-bodied coloured men,
most of them under arms, defending and acquiring Union
territory. The Democratic strategy demands that these
forces be disbanded, and that the masters be conciliated by
restoring them to slavery. The black men who now assist
Union prisoners to escape are to be converted into our
enemies, in the vain hope of ga'ning the goodwill of their
masters. We shall have to fight two nations instead of one.
You cannot conciliate the South if you guarantee to them
ultimate success ; and the experience of the present war
proves their success is inevitable if you fling the compulsory
labours of millions of black men into their side of the
scale. Will you give our enemies such military advantages
as insure success, and then depend on coaxing, fi tttery,and
concession, to .get them back into the Union ? Abandon
all the posts now garrisoned by black men, take 200,000
men from our side and put them in the battle-field or corn.
field against us, and we would be compelled to abandon the
war in three weeks. Wo have to hold territory in inclement
and sickly places; where are the Democrats to do this ? It
was a free fight, and the field was open to the War Demo-
crats to put down this rebellion by fighting against both
master and slave, long before the present policy was inau-
gurated. There have been men base enough to propose to
me to return to slavery the black warriors of Port Hudson
and olu•tee, and thus win the respect of the masters they
fought. Should Ido so, I should deserve to be damned in
time and eternity. Come what will, I will keep my faith
with friend and foe. My enemies pretend lam now carry-
ing on this war for the sole purpose of abolition. So long as
I am President it shall be carried on for the sole purpose of
restoring:the Union. But no human power can subdue the
rebellion without the use of the emancipation policy, and
every other policy calculated to weaken the moral and phy-
sical forces of the rebellion. Freedom has given us 200,000
men, raised on Southern soil. It will give us more yet.
Just so much it has subtracted from the enemy, and, in-
stead of alienating the South, there are now evidences of a
fraternal feeling growing up between our men and the rank
and file of the rebel soldiers. Let my enemies prove to the
country that the destruction of slavery is not necessary to
a restoration of the Union. I will abide the issue."

The Emperor Napoleon and the Kingdom

of Italy.

We reprint from The Sun of Sept. 26, 1862, the
following copy of the letter of the Emperor of the
French to M. Thouvenel, which the Constitutionne'
reprinted yesterday

May 20, 1862.
Monsieur 1e Ministre,—The more the. force of circum

stances maintains us, as regards the Roman question, in a
line of conduct equally distant from the two opponent par-
ties, the more necessary is it that that line should be dis-
tinctly define] to prevent henceforth the accusation, inces-
santly renewed, that we incline now to one side, now to the
other.

Since I have been at the head of the Government of
France my policy has always been the same towards Italy
to second national aspirations, to induce the Pope to be•
comp their support rather than their adversary—in a word