The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-24 00:00:00

be, were it possible to restore it. Upwards of 40

years ago Chief Justice Marshall, of the Supreme
Court, one of the most able and eminent lawyers that
America ever produced, declared no political dreamer

ever had been wild enough to think of breaking down
State lines and compounding the American people

into one mass. But that was in an antediluvian age.

The Sumners, the Wendell Phillipses, the Garrisons,
the Beechers, the Greeleys, and the Chases were
some of them in the nursery and some at school, and
knew nothing of that Constitution of the Union
which they have since learnt to despise or to
trample upon. Mr. Chase is of the new school, one
of the men who would make men temperate and
religious by Act of Parliament, and who think it
as wicked in the men of the North as in the men of
the South to hold slaves. To compound the
American people into one mass is the dearest object
of the ambition of these dreamy philosophers), To
accomplish that end they would first abolish slavery,
and next they would abolish the negro. After that
they would abolish the Constitution, State lines,
local Parliaments, and all the liberties of the people,
and construct a great homogeneous despotism, with
'an elective Sovereign or President for life, who
should be in everything but named an Emperor.
Into that groove they are sliding. Welded,
cemented, and held together by the strong hand,
they imagine that America would become the first
Power in Christendom, the virtual ruler of the
world, able to reduce Great Britain to the rank of
a third-rate kingdom and to dictate to the whole
of Europe. That is their wild dream, and they are
diligently labouring to realize it.

When President Lincoln said that for him to de-
cree the abolition of slavery was about as absurd as
for the Pope to issue a bull against the comet, Mr.
Seward had possession of him. When he after-
wards proclaitued that all the slaves in the United
States were to be "henceforward and for ever free,"
Mr. Chase had him in keeping. When he maintained
General M'Clellan in command, the mind of Mr.
Seward contolled him. When he dismissed M'Clel-
lan with undeserved ignominy and gross ingrati-
tude, Mr. Chase's principles assumed the mastery.
When he spoke and wrote of the oath he had taken
to uphold the Constitution, the thought of Seward
guided his tongue and his pen; but when he assumed
the power, which Congress had no right to delegate
to him, to suspend the operation of the writ of
habeas corpus throughout States which were neither
in insurrection nor in rebellion, the spirit of Chase
was in the ascendant. Of late the influence of Mr.
Seward has so much diminished, and that of Mr.
Chase so much increased in the Cabinet, that the
Conservative members of the Administration have
taken alarm, and one of them, Mr. Blair, the Poet-
master-General, has publicly denounced the Radi-
cal, or destructive policy which Mr. Chase repre-
sents, and declared that it must end in the ruin of
the nation if it be longer persisted in. His brother,
General Blair, a member of Congress, not being
trammelled by office, or by the personal decorum
which prohibits one member of the Government
from publicly speaking ill of another, has expressed
himself upon the subject, with a shadow of reserve,
and at a public meeting in the city of St. Louis has
declared that under no circumstances whatever can
the Radical party be allowed to override the rights
of the individual States. "If," he says, " the GJ-
verument of a State can be displaced at the will of
a set of poiiticane, or otherwise than by the forms
of law, we shall sacrifice our Republican institu•
tions and run down int') a sort of Mexican Republic,
where Presidents, Judges, &c., are made by pro-
nunciamentos. The people of this State (Missouri)
are not prepared to degrade themselves to this stan-
dard of Government. We are a people who desire
that there shall be stability and dignity in our Go-
vernment. We are a race of people who fight it
out rather than submit. All the men who are en-
deavouring to make our great contest for our national
existence degenerate into a Revolution like that
which afflicted France in the last century,—these
men, who are following in the footsteps of the Jaco-
bins of the French Revolution, who are demanding
the guillotine, who constitute themselves witnesses,
judges, and executioners alike, I tell them to beware.
They will not find a submissive people. They will
find Girondists of a different stamp. Robespierre
will never be allowed to live. Neither Robespierre
nor Denton shall exercise the authority they covet,
to immolate a people who differ from them in
opinions." Some one having hissed the General
when he declared that Mr. Chase was in his heart
as great an enemy of the Union as Mr. Jefferson
D ivis, he said that the hiss was " a good deal like
Nlr. Chase himself, a piece of rowdyism and black-
guardism." It is evident from the whole tenour
of the speech that in General Blair's estimation Mr.
Chase is the would-be Robespierre of the hour, and
that the Girondists who now rule will die harder
than their French predecessors.
A. few days will show whether at the present
moment Mr. Lincoln oscillates to the Girondists or
to the Terrorists. The question which will test the
fact, and possibly by its solution inaugurate a new
civil war in the remote States of Missouri and
Kansas has been broadly placed before the President
for his immediate decision by a delegation of lawless
patriots and border ruffians from both of those States,
who, finding the usual process of law too slow for
dealing with disturbers of the public peace, propose
to carry on a private war of their own under the
President's sanction. Discontented with the action
of Mr. Gamble, the legally elected Governor of the
State, who aspires to keep the peace between both
sets of ruffians in Missouri by the agency of the
Missouri militia, and with General Schofield, the
Federal officer, appointed by Mr. Lincoln to that
department of the Union, who is impartial enough
to be hated by both factions, they have invaded
Washington, nearly 100 strong, every one ready
with a speech to fire off at the Presidential head.
They have demanded that General Butler should
be appointed to succeed General Schofield, and that
a declaration of martial law in Missouri should
consign Governor Gamble to the retirement of
private life. The President, under the influence of
Mr. Seward, has given the deputation " the cold
shoulder," but promised to write to them as soon
as he shall have made up his mind on the subject.
In the meantime the deputation has waited upon
Mr. Chase, with the certainty of a favourable re-
ception. If Mr. Chase is ever to be President, it
will be by the Western vote, and for that reason
Mr. Chase is particularly solicitous to keep all his
Western friends in good humour. The anticipa-
tions of the deputation were consequently realised.
He was as cordial as Mr. Lincoln was cool ; and
if Mr. Lincoln do not send General Butler to
end the anarchy of Missouri and Kansas by
the establishment of a despotism, it will be be-
cause he just now oscillates more closely towards
the attraction of Seward than to that of Chase, and
that he is . . .
seine act
a political
not disinclined to thwart by one and the
of laissez-faire the dangerous ambition of
The worldQaalsutrell a good
rival, whom he can neither retain in
I office with Personal comfort, nor dismiss without
1 public danger,
deeds of has heard deal of the recent
behalf of the Confederate
Missouri, who
commits, the pro-Slavery scoundrel of
unauthorised massacres on
as bloodthirsty and as
but has not heard
Kansas,guit e so of th
-slavery scoundrels in
fiendishaeszr
ai
or
Senator
he, who
act with equal atrocity 0 u behalf of the Federals.
One of them, the notorious
ciackwoodstnan—who
Lan e—an illiterate and savage
as a
hyoußautindaurdinragwwhi
slew a neighbour for presuming to draw water
of his well, and nevertheless escaperr h
one of the deputation that has recently hanging—is
waited on the
President and Mr. Chase.
tem-
porary absence in the comparatively civiliseduirego
place
e was left to a kindred ••'
of the Federal capital, where such a person must be
asspirit I
known in the savage dialect of the !
the much
w work
rk out
of o
murderf
beene n e r a
commis-
sioned in the
"bushwhacker'' and a "jayhawker:,
named
border
but having the reHnkavcinfga,Besrihgeadsiaeyr-sG,
Federal army. e n
tot
doubto of Kansas
the
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rcavalry—though
tthhoe
uPresident
it
so
much
raiseu oh a
reason
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truth of the assertion—this freebooter
Kansas border
hasjust made
a speech to the people of Paoli on
for the purpose of enlisting brigands inhis company
(the 15th), in which he used the , following lan-

guage:--
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