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Mr. Adams, the American Minister, on the
War.

In pursuance of the proclamation of the President of the
United States, inviting his " fellow-citizens in every part of
the United States, and also those who are at sea and those
who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and ob-
serve the last Thursday of November as a day of thanks-
giving and prayer to our beneficent Father who dwelleth iu
heaven," a number of Americans resident in London assem-
bled at an elegant banquet at St. James's Hall, under the
presidency of the Hon. R. J. Walker. The day was ob-
served as a holiday by the Americans in London and in all
parts of the country, and business was suspended at the lega-
tion and at the consulates. The banquet last night was at-
tended by his Excellency the American Minister, Mr.
Adams, and by the secretaries of the embassy, Mr. Wilson
and Mr. Moran.

The proceedings of the evening were commenced by a
brief address from the Hon. R. J. Walker' who called upon
Mr. Hunting to read the Thanksgiving Proclamation of
President Lincoln. This having been done, prayer was
offered up by Mr. Seller Martin, a negro, in Whoseadven-
tures as a runaway the public were a short time since much
interested. The company present then sang in unison a
hymn composed for the occasion.
At the banquet the chair was taken by the Hon. Mr.
Walker, who, after having delivered an address on the origin
and progress of the rebellion, and the prospects of its speedy
suppression, proposed " The Health of the President of the
United States"--a toast which was drank with great enthu-
siasm.
Mr. ADAMS, the American Minister, in acknowledging
the toast, said—l thank you for the honour you have done
me by calling upon me to respond to the toast of the Presi-
dent of the United States. 01 late years we have rather
got out of the habit of giving any great amount of lauda-
tion to the President of the United States. There may
have been causes for that, which you will all understand.
I will say with respect to our chief magistrate at present
that he has not had himself any such amount as would be
likely to turn his head. (A laugh.) Not one-half so much
indeed as you, sirs, have showered upon me this evening.
On the contrary, it has become the practice of our people
generally to lay upon the President the responsibility for
any mistake which is committed by anybody, and any
misfortune which happens at any time. There is hardly a
single act which he does against which there is not found
somebody or other to carp. Even with respect to his pro-
clamation asking us to have a thanksgiving day, I have
seen it sometime remarked that it was a most extraordinary
thing that at the time that seemed to be one of nothing but
calamity in the United States—when there was an immense
loss of life going on, and great destruction of property, and
painful distress in all classes, the idea that the President of
the United States should have taken such an occasion to
call upon his fellow-citizens to give thanks to God seemed
to indicate either great moral obtuseness or a savage vin-
dictive feeling of joy at the distress of the people whom ho
was trying to subject. Now, it is upon this point that I
propose to offer a few remarks, lam perfectly willing to
concede that this is a time of great calamity. I believe
that the peat majority, indeed almost all, of our people in
America feel that it is a calamity which they would gladly
have avoided if they could, but they have been obliged to
view it as much of a necessary evil as if it had been an
earthquake or an inundation. (Cheers.) It was an afflic-
tion which they could not avoid. Under these circum-
stances, all that they could do was to apply themselves as
promptly as possible to the perfection of a remedy and a
restoration. This could only be done through perseverance
in the war. (Cheers.) But we are asked what is the precise
blessing for which we are at present to give God thanks ?
In order to get something like a correct idea of this matter,
it will bo necessary for me to recal to your mind, as briefly
as possible, the course of events since the time when the Pres-
ident came into office. I scarcely need say to you, what I be-
lieve is perfectly well known to every one, that that gentleman
came to his post with less of practical experience in govern.
of the Government. (Cheers.) He came into office meat than any individual had done since the foundation
of the greatest difficulty and danger which had occurred
since the foundation of the Government. (Cheers.) He,
ol
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a position
as you will all recollect, found himself occupying
ea at a time
in which all the portions of the edifice of government seemed
crumbling around him. Why, it was exceedingly doubtful
even whether the President would be able to arrive. at the
place where he would assume the performance of his duties..
ton, and was quali-
fied It was only by a little contrivanfeo.eunthdatthhaet
n
eengtenomfuswlhyahtd tHheep
defeating the plot which had been formed succeededwh at.ever
ffroormth.aerrseiviziunrge of
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his person, and so disabled the countrY
But Pressoidi
the constitutional organisation of the executive Depart-
tl.le departments of the
immediate department, and
.be
around him on all theHe beraaninechthesWofalaing
he
touched it was unsound.
Executive Government, and everything seemed. to be shak-
ing under him. He looked to the organisation of his own
men t.
President. ( heer s .
rebellion been disseminated through all the ramifications of
the Government, that treachery was cropping out at all
points. (Cheers.) lee had to begin by a thorough scru-
tiny of men, from those occupying the uppermost seats
down to almost the lowest place. There was a necessity
for searching reform by which the' lurking, not lees than
the compact treason and treachery were to be eliminated
from the body politic. (Cheers.) That work has now
been done. (cheers.) The Government in its affairs at
Washington is now safe, and is served faithfully. (Cheers.)
Is not this something. to be thankful for ? (Cheers.) Is
not this something for which we have a right to echo the
President's appeal to us to meet together and to be thank-
ful on this occasion. (Cheers.) But this was not by any
means the worst point. The President looked upon the
Foreign Department of his Government, and when he
cast his eyes abroad there was not to be found one single
individual in the foreign service of the Government that
sympathised with him in his feelings or his difficul-
ties. Nay more, there was not in the service of
the Government—with the exception of some cautious
individual who did not choose to commit himself—
scarcely a person who was not practically disseminating dis •
trust of the Government under which he was serving.
(Cheers.) Not a few of them produced a very considerable
effect in almost every country of Europe in creating that opi-
nion which became prevalent that the complete subversion
of the old system was at hand and that a new one was inevi-
table. I have a little anecdote in connection with this subject
to tell you, Very shortly after the election of Mr. Lincoln he
did me the honour to designate me as the individual to come
out and represent the country at this Court. I came out ee
soon as I could. I got here in about two months After the
inauguration of the President. On my arrival one first news
which met me was that three distinguished commissioners,
as the newspapers called them, had come out from the rebel
authorities, and were at that time in London. I had the
pleasure of learning also that these commissioners had con-
fidently announced among their friends, that before 1 should
reach London the Government and capital of Washington
would be in their hands; consequently, I should stand no
chance of being received by the British Government as the
representative of the United States. (Cheers and applause.)
That is simply a specimen of the mode in which that class
of persons laboured throughout Europe, and not without
effect. And it has taken all the time from that day to this
to inspire the different countries of Europe with a tolerable
share of confidence in all men to maintain the Government
of the United States. (Cheers.) Now, 1 think we have got
so far that I begin to feel as if I could assure you, Mr. Pre •
sident, that the Governments of Europe have seen reason to
modify their views of the condition of the Government of
the United States. (Cheers.) And now, I say, after scarcely
three years, when we see a change of this kind has taken
place, when the Foreign Department is working once more
faithfully and harmoniously—have we not, I say, got some-
thing in this to be thankful for? (Cheers.) Is it not a fitting
occasion to meet and rejoice on this restoration? But let me
go a step further, When the President looked upon the
Treasury Department he found that so ingeniously had the

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States Government, to undermine the cr. , iOillii:).
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men could be persuaded to come forward to Ilan the
vernment at a high rate of interest but a small sum to en-
able it to go on until the time of his taking his post. There
probably was never a time in its whole history when confi-
dence in the national credit had been so much shaken by
the machinations of those who had been once its secret ene-
mies. The President had to ro- organise credit by re-estab-
lishing the foundations of it in the integrity of the adminis-
tration of the Treasury, He did so. What has been the
result ? From that degree of feebleness, when confidence in
a Government promise seemed to be shaken almost beyond
repair, the people have gradually increased their faith until
they daily rash in swarms volumtarily to offer money to the
Government in exchange for the "obligations" which they
are anxious to obtain. (Chnrs.) Is not that something to ha
thankful for ? Let me go a step further. When this war brolie
out the President looked around to see where was ,his mili-
tary organisation upon which he had to rely for the support
of his coercive measures. He found here, too, that so vigor-
ously had treason worked itself through all the channels of
military organisation that there was not one man out of three
who could be ti need. Ile found one set of men who were,
and who ultimately declared themselves " traitors." He
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
field on account of physical debility. And that ivas the state
of the organisation of the army with which the President
had to begin a gigantic war. Ido not believe that in the
.whole history of the world a greater undertaking was ever
assumed by an individual who had no experience in such
matters. He had to organise an army of half a million of
men upon the little basis which was thus left for him to
operate upon. At the outset, as you all know, the President
mot with difficulties of all kinds. But look at the organisa-
tion as it exists now, and compare it with what it was in the
beginning, and you will see that by patience and perseverance
and fidelity to his duty he has got you an army now that
will carry you through. There are now ne men in the army
that you are obliged to mistrust. (Cheers.) There is no
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 occupied before. It has taken two short years
and a 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 admit I
looked upon as one almost imposssible 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 be
devised any plan of effecting it which would rot lead to
bloodshed and ruin throughout the whole country which
they occupied. It was the great argument against doing
anything. It was said to bs 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 act
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 hero 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 we not a right to meet together, under the call
of our President, and, looking back at our difficulties,
to bless God that they aro diminished to the extent we
now see them ? (Cheers.) Yon are all aware that when
the President first announced this proposition it
was regarded with groat aversion, and it was announced
at once as the weakest and wickedest of measures, and
there were also indications at the time that the oppo-
sition to that measure would go so far as seriously to im-
pair the energies of the Government in executing it, Last
year at this time there was a great expression of popular
sentiment against the proclamation. But another year has
gone by. The system has in the interval had a chance of
being carried out to its:practical development ; and the great
bulk of the people having seen the result, that part have
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 thankful 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 firms
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-
dance 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 true
and successful conclusion of the struggle. (Cheers.) Is not
this something to be thankful for ? (Cheers.) We now stand
firtaly, and we have every reliance that the Government is
now able and the people willing to go through the trial
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. Tho
President has shown ability and capacity, bit not above
that of most of his predecessors. What is the reason, then ?
the
Why has he succeeded in all these results ? I will tell you
the reason. He has succeededupon the phe
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because
hasopl
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the be-
ginning to the end impressed
convic-
tion of his honesty andofhis
conclusion,fide hislity Etonoenlelegureeyasttpauterdpothseui
(Great cheering.) In
he was thankful for having had the opportunity of express-
ing these sentiments, as an echo to the toast of the " Health
of the honoured President of the United States." (Cheers.)
I The next toast was " The Queen," whose health was
drunk in a very hearty and cordial manner, The remain-
ing toasts and sentiments ware :—" The Day—devoted to
thanking God for our Victories in the cause of Liberty and
Union," by Mr. George Thompson, "The Union—from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Lakes to the Gulf, front
the source to the mouth of the Mississippi, for ever one and
inseparable," 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 lion. 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
to them".

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ENGLAND'S DOG-IN-TM-MANGER POLICY.--
France will not fight for Poland herself and alone;
England will not, and cannot, help her; therefore the only
policy on which thcf can combine is the obstructive policy
of tripping ur Isiapoleon in his first move, and doing all in
their pow to keep things as they are. We should be
heartuy ashamed if England were betrayed into this
favourite dog-in-the-manger policy of hers, which both re-
fuses to do anything itself for a nation in trouble, and to let
the only Power at all disposed to help, render aid which
excites her jealous fears. We should be doubly 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. Ruskin shivers, and loses his healthy appe-
tite for communicating information on the suhject of pre-
Raffaelite 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
kingdom will fluctuate with the funds, and all trade will
stop every time an unfortunate measure is taken by her
Majesty's Cabinet, Professor Kingsley will decline to lec-
ture on God in History at Cambridge until Lord Palmer-
ston brings in a new Reform Bill, giving ipso facto the
franchise to all muscular Christians. Tho 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 New
(hie ans,-,Londen .review.

LONDON, FRIDAY, NOV. 27, 1863.

One of the most astoundingly ironical, sarcastic,
satirical demonstrations the world has ever wit-
nessed, yesterday took place in London, as well as
in many parts of America, and indeed of the world,
in obedience to the mandate of that very bewildering
person, Mr. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The proclamation
appointing the last Thursday in the November of
1903, as the date selected for this strangely
projected demonstration was of a character so
wildly eccentric as to amount, we might almost
venture to say, to the blasphemous. It was a
proclamation issued in the name (notoriously
a misnomer, to begin with) of the PRESIDENT
of the United States, formally inviting his fellow-
citizens in every part of those same United States
(wherever they may be, say in nubibus), and also
those who are at sea, together with those who are
sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe
with all due solemnity the date before mentioned—
that is, yesterday, being the last Thursday
°f this present month of November, as—what P
a Al Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer to our
Beneficent Father who is in Heaven !" The
fo7ording of the sentence is quite after the
the
o,tat_yle and manner, of PRAISE-GOD-BARE-
shall
we
not
Bay
or, still more,
membered 1.41,y it (selecting this not inaptly re-
tory of Evulldtae's name from MACAULAY'S His-
-I)vstill more after the fashion of—
TRIBULATIox
oirl7o7,LEsomE! A solemnly ap-
pointed festival
of
thanksgiving to the Divinity in
the midst of one
see. west hideously gigantic and
sanguinary, and
upon record, certainly gIY hopeless, Civil Wars
one who is not a I:teoi°_ai appear to every
rant and a most Pitiable
a most flag-
'''. act of pro-
fanity. It seems to us, in
in its fact,
Way,
t..horaranas
tt:Rinot
olsopnieEßilDEt,as
less of an impiety,
festival in the Reign of Terror f
the existence of a GOD ! A Day
ot Yrecognising
Humiliation
would have been comprehensible.
Thanksgiving ! The mere phrase ,e,374 Day of
t'la(l23 like
some horrible jibe or irony
addressed to b.e'4
a Volcano is a aleatY
of Heaven ! Dancing upon a lantdiin_
to it. It is like the substitution of garland, Itllsd
holiday raiment—in the midst of the horrors of
a plague—for sackcloth and ashes. Never was a
rejoicing demonstration more marvellously or more
painfully maßtpropos. It is like the assuming of
an air of gladness at a funeral. Nnowing how
much there is of whimsicality, of ungainly waggery
about that gawky, lantern•jawed President of
(as we will still continue to call them, for form's
sake, though the name, as we have said, has long
ceased to be otherwise than an extravagant Imis-
unmer)—of the United States, one is almost reduced
to the necessity of believing that the appointment by
Mr. LINCOLN of this astounding Day of Thanks-
giving is nothing more nor less on his part than
a most cruel and a most impious practical joke
h'ulkagiving—for hecatombs of slain ? for millions
upon millions of dollars squandered ? for cities
laid „vast
by the demon of Civil War ? for
the fattening of
vvthe free soil of America
with the multiplied agonies and the wasted lives,
the blood of the anded and the decaying bodies
of the dead and buried
citizens, whether of North or
of South, whether Federais
or Confederates, by
thousands, thousands upon
--eusands to a total so terrible
in its magnitude as to bO, by 3 this time, beyond
the reach of computation? s
W 33 the American Minister at London,nscious, in truth,
of the extra-
ordinary indecorum of the Whole proceeding, that
his speech yesterday was go far
aPologestic
throughout,
that it was from first to last—
explanatory ! And, certainly, floe that Mr.
ADAMS has explained the inner meaning of this
Wonderfully profane DaY of Thanksgiving, Nye twa.