The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-16 00:00:00

Address to President Lincoln,

A deputation from the Emancipation Society

waited 'upon the Hon. C. F. Adams, the American
Minister, yesterday afternoon, at his residence in
Portland-place, to present to his Excellency, for
transmission to the United States, an address con.
gratulating President Lincoln on his re-election.

Mr F. W. Chesson, the hon. secretary, read the
following address adopted by the Emancipation
Society for presentation to Mr Lincoln :
TO. HIS EXCELLENCY ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Sir,—We, the President and members of the Emancipa•
tion Society, with profound respect for your person and for

your office, congratulate you upon your re-election as Pre
sident of the United States of America.

Your first election marked you out as the freely chosen
leader of the people for the express and avowed purpose of
resisting the encroachments of the slave power, and we re •
°ice that, after four years' experience, your countrymen are
again determined that you shall act as their chief magistrate
far another term of office, in order that the hateful institu-
tion of slavery way be entirely abolished.
We agree with those who elected you in their dekto-

tions that slavery was the cause of the rebellion' it is your
dnty to quell; that it •' must be hostile to the principles of
Republican Government;" and that both " justice and na-
tional safety demand its extirpation," and we at the same
time feel confident that while vigorously conducting the
remaining operations of the war so as to accomplish this
high purpose, your administration will be guided, as it has
hitherto been, by an earnest desire to mitigate the suffer-
ings inseparable from a condition of strife. We have noticed
with peculiar satisfaction the sanction and aid given by
your Government to the voluntary cfforts of the Sanitary
Commission, whose agents have not confined their bene-
ficent action to their own party in the struggle, but have
bestowed the greatest care and attention upon the sick and
wounded rebels who have fallen into your hands.
We deplore the loss of valuable life in the protracted
conflict which the slaveholders have forced upon your coun-
try—but it is an honour to you and to your fellow-citizens
that no prisoners have been put to death for the mere fact
of being taken in arms against your Government—and we
have faith that you will continue to show all passible mercy
and forbearance to the enemies of your republic, and thus
leave to your contemporaries and to posterity the gratefu
task of placing your moderation in noble contrast with the
deplorable and sanguinary ferocity exhieitt d by European
despots towards those whom their cruelty has driven to
revolt.

Thit your exertions may shorten the duration of the
war, and that your country, thoroughly purged and puri-
fied from the crime and curse of slavery, and with every
citizen, without regard to race or colour, standing in per-
fect equality before the law, may enjoy internal happiness,
and exert a useful and widespread influence for the ad-
vancement of liberty and the general good of mankind, is
the wish and prayer of your sincere friends.
WILLIAM_ EVANS, Chairman.
P. A• TAYLOR,
Treasurers•
W. T. MALLESON,
F. W. CRESSON, Hon. Secretary.

London, Dec, 1864.
After complimentary speeches from several members of
he deputation,
His Excellency Mr, ADAMS said,—Mr Chairman and
Gentlemen,-1 receive the address which you are pleased
to commit to my care with great satisfaction. Coming as it
does from an association of such respectability in this king-
dom, it cannot fail to be regarded in America as a strong
proof of the friendly interest taken by a considerable por-
tion of the English people in the welfare of the United
States while passing through their great perils. This
will do great good, for I cannot disguise from myself or
from you the painful fact that an opposite disposition has
been manifested here in very influential circles, and that the
knowledge of this has given rise to a general impression
among my countrymen that the whole British nation really
desires the disruption, and consequent downfall, of the
power of the United States. Hence has sprung up a cor-
responding degree of which bids fair, if not counter-
acted, only to increase with time. If such passions be per-
mitted a full indulgence between two nations it needs little
sagacity to foretell that, in the long run, the end is war. i
Very fortunately for us all in the present case, the demon.
strations already made by yourselves, and may other asso-
ciations whose friendly communications from various por-
tions of the kingdom I am now continually receiving for
transmission to America, will enable those who value the
blessings of peace and international amity to prove that,
whatever may be the hostility of some, it is by no means
shared by the great number of the British people, and
ought not to be presumed to be a national impression
(Cheers.) Permit me, gentlemen, further to observe that
the election to which you refer in your address has drawn
out as full and general an expression of the opinion of
the whole people of the region in which it has taken
place as has ever been the case in the most peaceful times,
Never was a canvas more perfectly free, nor more latitude
taken in all the discussions of public questions and of the
characters of public men. Under these circumstances it is
needless to point out to you how mistaken hav4 been the
notions of some that any essential variation has taken place
in the general operation of free institutions in all that portion
of the United States, constituting much the greatest part,
not immediately the theatre of the war. (Cheers.) I would
further beg leave to call your attention to two points which
the history of the late election appears clearly to establish.
The first is the practical impossibility of making any effec-
tive separation of the personal and political interest of the
two sections of America now involved is this deplorable
struggle. This is indubitably shown by the fact that at no
time in our history has so direct and persistent an effort at
iwerference to control the event of the election of Presi-
dent been made by the people of the insurgent States as
upon this last occasion, while they profess—and doubtless
honestly, their desire to separate themselves wholly from
it. The notorious projects devised by some of their agents
at Niagara Falls in the autumn, followed as they were by
the nomination at Chicago of a candidate for the Presi-
dency committed to a policy dictated by that portion of the
people well known to be most in sympathy, it not in abso-
lute communication, with them, furnish evidence enough of
this truth, if the same were not ionfirmed by the regrets
unequivocally expressed since by certain prominent leaders
in the Southern States at the failures of their expectations
from that nomination.. This shows that, whatever might be
the sincerity with which either portion of the country migh
act is the supposition that it should consent to pledge itsel
to a complete separation, the fact that the political interes

of the two are inextricably interwined will, under every pos-
sible circumstance, render all such promises in practice futile
and void. The second point to which I would advert is natu-
rally sugg, sted by the first. It is this—that the only real
question of difference between the two parties in the election
was that which d irectlyinvolved the interests of the elavehold-
ing insurgents, much more than those of the loyal States.
(Cheers.) The nomination at Chicago rested on an implied,
if not an express engagement, to protect domestic slavery so
far as not to make it a question in any plan of pacification
or restoration of the Union. (Hear.) The policy of the Go-
vernment, on the other hand, was well understood to be a
restoration of the Union as a primary object, but the set-
tlement of the slave question as a necessary preliminary to
a durable 're-establishment of peace. If this be a correct
statement of the issue, it can be no cause of surprise to
find the insurgents straining every nerve to bring about a
result favourable to their interests. It was then the fate
of slavery that made tho turning point in the great deci“
bion to be made by the people of the United States on this
occasion. If this be so, the result is one in which we may
be permitted all to rejoice in common. It has continued a
Government which has already done much towards eman-
cipation in the progress of the war, and which might be de-
pended upon to go on doing more, in proportion as matters
should approach more nearly the great end of its perfect
work. (Hear.) I will conclude, then, with the expression
of a hope that, without regard to national distinction, all
good men may have cause to rejoice in the termination of
this melancholy struggle, if that end bo at once the confir-
mation of a free Government in America, and the eradica-
tion of the most formidable evil with which its progress has
been heretofore cursed. (Loud cheers )
Three cheers were then given for Mr Lincoln, and the
deputation withdrew.

The divorce case—Stone v. Stone and Apple.
ton, which has been in course of trial for several days, was
brought to a close yesterday. This was the second trial,
the former one having ended in a verdict far the plaintiff,
the jury finding that the wife had committed adultery. Yes-
terday this decision was reversed. The jury found that the
respondent had not been guilty of the adultery charged.
A SCHOOLMASTRR CHARGED WITH BURGLARY
AND WASTING 150 GALLONS OF ALE.—At the
Court-house at Driffield on Wednesday, William Arnott, of
Poston, near Driffield, schoolmaster, was charged with
breaking into an ale cellar, and stealing and wasting a large
quantity of ale, the property of Mr Robert Gibson, of Fos-
ton, brewer. Robert Rose stated that he locked the brewery
and the ale cellar on Saturday night at 6 o'clock, and saw
that all was safe. There were eight 18 gallon casks on the
gantry working, and another bat rel nn the tap. On Sunday
morning he found the cellar door broken open. He fetched
Mr Gibson, and they found eight of the casks thrown down
and nearly empty. The others were laid on their sides and
nearly empty, and the contents were spilt on the floor. A
stick and a hat were found in the cellar. Mr Gibson
said that all the ale—about 150 gallons, worth is 3d per
gallon—was wasted, except two eighteen gallon casks, He
saw all safe at ten o'clock on the previous night. Police-
constable Gardam stated that ha took Arnett into custody
on Sunday night, and charged him with breaking into Mr.
Gibson's ale cellar. He said " Yes." He asked the prisoner
if he could produce the hat and stick he had in his posses-
sion on Saturday night; and he said he had lost them. He
said "You have found it out. I may as well tell you the
truth, I broke into the cellar, myself. I was alone, and
I left my hat and stick. I got my bellyfull of drink," The
prisoner, on being asked by the magistrates if he had any-
thing to say, made a statement similar to the above; and
said the cellar door came open as easily as a man could take
his het from his head, but he denied upsetting the ale bar-
rels. lie was committed to prison for a month.