The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-27 00:00:00

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able it to go on until ther time of his taking his posiedfle e s
probably was never a time) in its whole history whe'core
deuce in the national creet,:t had been so much shaken by
the machinations of those 05,,h0 had been once its secret ea ,e-
-mies. The President had to eee.organise credit by re-estalh-
lishing the foundations of itin e'be integrity of the adminis '- -
tration of the Treasury. He did so. What has been tht 1
result ? From that degree of feeble. less, when confidence in.
a Government promise seemed to IA shaken almost beyond
repair, the people have gradually ieers 'ased their faith until
they daily rush in swarms voluntarily to offer money to the
Government in exchange for the " obligate 'ens" which they
are anxious to obtain. (Cheers.) Is not that eermething to be
thankful for ? Let me go a step further. When nhis war broke
out the President looked around to see where w.'ls his mili-
tary organisation upon which be had to rely for th a support
of his coercive measures. He found here, too, that a 9 vigor-
ously had treason worked itself through all the chtnanels of
military organisation that there was not one man out }f flute
who could be trusted. He found one set of teen who were,
and who ultimately declared themselves " traitors." ,Ile
found another set of men who were not traitors, but they
were timid and lukewarm, and did not know whether they
would or would not support the Government ; and he found`
still another set who had been in service so long, and who
had arrived at such an age that, however excellent their
disposition was, they could not well be relied upon in the
fles' on account of physical debility. And that was the state
of tee organisation of: the army with which the President
bad to begin a gigantic war. I do not believe that in the
whole his%!-ory of the world a greater undertaking was ever
assumed by eau individual who had no experience in such
matters. Ile ht:4 to organise an army of ball a million of
men upon the little basis svhich was thus left for him to
operate upon. 'At the eliteet, Les you all know, the President
met with difficulties of elf kinds. But look at the organisa-
tion as it exists now, and cotopare it with what it was in the
beginning, and youwill see that bypaio'hce and
that
and fidelity to his duty he has got you an army noW
perseverance
will carry you through. There arc now no men in the army
that you are obliged to mistrust:--(Cheers,? There is. nO-.:--,-.- _se,
man whom you suspect will betray all your movements to
the rebels. Is not that a result for which we have cause to
be thankful? (Cheers.) And let us turn for a moment to
the condition of the navy. At the beginning of the Admi-
nistration the President, when he looked after his navy
vessels, found that some ships had to be burnt to save them
from treacherous surrender, and the rest had been sent
away as far over the globe as they could go. He had to
restore the whole system from its formation, He had to
go through the same process as that which he had applied
to the army--he had to build ships, to re-organise the bu-
reaux—he had. in short, to place the navy on a footing that
it had never occuped before. It has taken two short years
and &little more to do all this, and we have now a navy
both in numbers and power which will make the United
States respected on every sea, and in every part of the
world. (Cheers.) And is not this something to be thank-
ful for ? (Cheers.) Thus, on a review of all the different
departments of the Executive Government, you will see,
the destiny of its President, who had no experience when he
began, was
,to reorganise, rebuild, and restore the whole
system from its foundation. (Cheers.) But this is not all.
There was one question which had baffled all attempts ever
to reach a solution, and which I for one will frankly admitel
looked upon as one almost imposasible to dispose of with:
success. I need not say that I allude to the great question
of the condition of the slaves. Much as we all had dis-
cussed it for years, we had never had presented to us from
any source a practicable mode of dealing with it. When it
came simply to emancipation, the people throughout the
United States were utterly incredulous that there could bre
devised any plan of effecting ,it which would not lead to
bloodshed and ruin throughout the whole country wisichs
they occupied. It was the great argument against doing
anything. It was said to be impossible to hope for any
issue that would not involve the destruction of all classes of
society within its reach. Now, the great and crowning ace
of the Administration of President Lincoln is, that in two'
distinct measures he has opened a way for a practical result
which we , had always supposed could not be found.
(Cheers.) The proclamation and the enlistment of the'
negroes as soldiers, are two great instruments by which
emancipation without revolution will be carried out.
(Cheers.) And here we are now, at the end of two and a
half years, having made slow but regular progress in this
movement, until it has taken shape distinctly before us,
so that we can foresee the ultimate issue. Have we not
in all this something to be. thankful for? (Cheers.)
Have wo not a right to meet together, under the calf
of our President, and, looking back at our dOculties,
to bless God that they aro diminished to the extent we
now see them? (Chesrs.) You are all aware that when
the President first announced this proposition , it
was regarded with great aversion, and it was announced
at once as the weakest and wickedest of measures, Food
there were also indications at the time that the oppo.,
sition to that naeasuro would go so far as seriously to im-
pair the energies of the Government in executing ie. Last
year at this time there was a great expression of popular
sentiment against the proclamation. But another year has
gone by. Tho system has in the interval had a chance of
being carried out to its'practical development ; and the gre sit
bulk of the people having seen the result, that part haver •
joined together, as with one voice, almost from one end of
the country to the other, in favour of sustaining the Govern-
ment in executing that policy. (Cheers.) And is not this
something to be thanktul for? (Cheers.) Let us then reca-
pitulate what is our present position, and what it was when
this inexperienced President first took office. Then the Go-
vernment was almost disintegrated, now it is solid and firm,
able to act through honest agents and faithful men—able to
act with vigour and effect 'whenever and however it pleases.
(Cheers.) Then the people were staggered in their confi-
dence in the country and in the President; now the Presi-
dent has all the departments of the Government faithful to
him and to the Constitution. The people have rallied round.
the Government, and have maintained the policy of the
President. They have money, they
have men, and they
have ideas which they mean to establish as the only trueand successful conclusion of the struggle, (Cheers.) Is not
this something to be thankful fur? (Cheers.) We now stand •
firmly, and we have every reliance that the Governmdnt is
now.able and the people willing to go through the trier
triumphantly. (Cheers.) And all this change has been,
effected—all these results have been produced—through the
agency of a President who came into power with less practi-
cal political experience than anyone preceding him. (Cheers.)
And why has this been done? Has it been done by any supe-
rior genius on the part of the President ? Not at all. The
President has shown ability and capacity, but not above
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the reason. He has succeeded because he has from the be-.
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ginning to the end impressed upon thet
t(iGonroaoft his honesty azicoofnhclias people the convic-
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he was thankful for having had 'oceulleneb Excellency sttPatitedrNsth°a;
ing these sentiments, as
an the opportunity of express*
echo to the toast of the " Health
of the honoured of
President the United States." (Cheers.)
The next toast was "The Queen," whose health was
drunk in a very hearty and cordial manner. The remain-
ing toasts and sentiments ware e.-" The Day-devoted to
thanking God for our Victories in the cause of Liberty and
Union," by Mr. George Thompson. "The Union—fronr
the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Lakes to the Gulf, from
the source to .
o the mouth of the Mississippi, for ever one and
hfseparabl "e, by Judge J. G. Winter. " The Emancipa-
tion Proclamation—Slavery's Epitaph ; written by the
finger of God on the heart of the American President," by
the Hon. Freeman H. Morse. "The Army and Navy—.
immortal champions of freedom, who bled that our country
may live," by Captain Mayne Reid. " Washington—the
man without a peer ; we follow his farewell advice--never
to surrender the Union," by Capt. J. C. Headley. " The
Press—the tyrant's foe, the people's friend ; where it is free
despotism must perish." " The Ladies—our sweethearts,
wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, friends ; their holy in-
fluence will break all chains but those which bind our hearts
_ - 1 to them,"
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ENGLAND'S DOG-IN-THE-MANGER POLICY.
France will not fight for Poland herself and alone ;
England will not, and cannot, help her ; therefore the
.o
only.
policy on which they can combine is the obstructive Pohr
y
of tripping up Napoleon in his first move,
an
their power to keep things as they are. virde doing
should b
heartily ashamed if England were betrayed into this
favourite dog-in-the-manger policy of hers, which both
render aid which
excites her jealous fears.
re-
fuses to do anything itself for a
tnation trouble, and to let
the only Power at all disposed
o help,
-we should hadoubly ashamed if
England were betrayed
into it under a Government that
calls itself Liberal.
ARTISTIC SENSIBILITY IN POLITICS,'—Lord Rus-
sell declines to send the English fleet to the Baltic,
therefore Mr. Raskin shivers, and loses his healthy appe-
tite for communicating information on the sulaject of pre-
Itaffaelite art to mankind. Let us hope that so healthy an
organ will revive. Otherwise, if this contagion of political
sensibility spreads, the spirits of every profession in the
kiogdora timewillfi an unfortunateuetuatea with the
measure funds, and all trade will
everystop is taken by her
Majesty's Cabinet. Professor Kingsley will decline to lec-
ture on God in History at Carnbridg.) until Lord Palmer-
ston brings in a new Reform Bill, giving ipso facto the
franchise to all muscular Christians. The curates in the
country parishes will here and there refuse to read the
Litany, or to baptise any children of tender years, in con-
sequence of the detention of the steam rams. " J. 0." must
for conscience sake go into a moral quarantine, and abstain
from all Communication with his fellow-creatures so long as
Colonel Crawley is unhung ; and Mr. Thomas Hughes will
be compelled to retire into private life until slavery is ex-
tinguished in the Confederate States of North America,
and greenbacks reign triumphant from Washington to N tw
Orleans.—London Review.