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

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,A' ~„-,,ce-z---e-c:e INEWSPAPPR
individuals laboured in the preceding Adminis r...:., .8.:,.-.,1,14,-
many high in office were conspiring to deer.,:. :,,,,i rf,:z1.14,1„, tEi
States Government, to undermine the credit o, . :f. iilo.-, ~ —1
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that it was with very great difficulty some
men could be persuaded to come forward
verament at a high rate of interest but a
able it to go on until the time of his taking his post.
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 re-organise credit by re-estale-
lishing the foundations of it in the integrity of the adminis-
tration of the Treasury. He did so. What has been tha
areGsult ? From that degree of feebleness, when confidence in
Government promise seemed to be shaken almost beyond
repair,
they daily •
the people have gradually increased their faith until
Government
rush in swarms v t wily to offer money to the
are anxiCmc'snttoinexchanget for the " obligations" which they
thankful fur? Let me
obtain.
g(aCahaserteo,rws.i)idnlt4;l7:.)tvitlittcalsOtzhniest hve;enrgbtroabkee
tary organisation upon which he h'adc. ‘Co
out the President looked
ofs
his coercive measures, lie lo ad heree wr
!Tee
etfe,o
twrhteabteehesiusviiep:'
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ously had treason worked itself uthrough all the channels of
military organisation that there
who could be tlus'ed.
and who ultimately declared them-se:et of men who were.
Ile
fotriwri,Lositoot one man out of thrt
found another set of men who %(‘l,:dlrclia)vtoc:;;ailLur'st,orL't' they
were timid and lukewarm, and
t kehrvoiwee:::!:;xnege,llaend who
know whether they
would or would not support tho Govern, and he Maud
still another set who had been it
had arrived at such an age that,
disposition was, they could not well be relied upon ti
their
hs
field on account of physical debility. And that was thenetta
of the organisation of the army with which the President.te
had to begin a gigantic war. I do 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
met with difficulties of all kinds. But look at the organisa-
tion as it exists now, and compare it with what it was an the
beginning, and youwiil 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 no men in the army
that you ate obliged to mistrust. (Cheers.) There is no
man whom you suspect will betray all
we havp cause to
the rebels. Is not that a result fee which
your movements to
be thankful ? (Cheers.) And let us turn for a moment tot
the condition of the navy. At the beginning
nistration the President, when he looked after his navy
vessels, found that some ships had to be burnt to save them
of the Admi-
from treacherous surrender, and the rest had been sent
away as far over the globe as they could go. He lied to
restore the whole system from its formation, /le 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-
r
eaux—
he had. in short, to place the navy on a footing that
it had nevernioecrceupteieddbeeafolrlet.hisl„t
andhas taken two shortnewa ntty
years
and a little y
both in
numbers and power which will make the Unitet:
.
States respected
world. on every sea, and in every part of then
(Cheers.) And is not this something to be thank-
ful for ? (Cheers.) Thus, on a
Government, review
you the
will
different:
departments of the Executive lsee,
the destiny of its President, who had no experience when he
began, was to retire
There was one question which e rebuild, and restore the whole
system from its foundation.
to reach a solution, and Which hadf baffled all attempts ever
ioheers.) But this is not all.
looked upon as one almost imlPallusdiele to dispose of with.
°or one will frankly admit L
success. I need not say that
of the condition of the slaves.
nthteidt.to us from
allude the great question
as we all had dis-
cussed it for years, we had never had
any source a practicable mode of dealinpe-reweei
Vlien it
came simply to emancipation, the people throughlotetthhe.
United States were utterly incredulous that there could
e
devised any plin of effecting it which would rot lead t°
bloodshed and ruin throughout the whole country which
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 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 here we are now, at the end of t'wo and a
half years, having made slow but regular progrese in this
movement, until it has taken shape distiDetly before us,
so that we can foresee the ultimate issue. thew) we not
in all this something to be thankful for ? Cho era.)
Have we not a right to meet together, under the Sall
of our President, and, looking back at our difficulties,'
to bless Goa that they are diminished to the extent we
now see them ? (Cheers.) You are all aware that where.
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, 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 dale 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 vale., 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 poeition, and what it was is hen
this inexperienced President first took office. Then the (Jo-
vernment was almost disintegrated, now it is solid and tine,
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 true
and successful conclusion of the struggle. (Cheers.) Is not
this something to be thankful for? (Cheers.) We now stand
people willing to go through the trial
&ally, and we have every reliance that the Government he
tnreiuwmapbhleanatille (
de
the Cheers ) And all this change has been
'tat bayt aanlly. stiTPhoa-
effected—all these results have been produced—through, the
agency of a President who came into power with less practi-
cal pol itical experience than anyone preceding him.. (Cheers.)
ebruetasnonot,hbeonv?e
riAonragwenhiyushoun tthhies
partbeen
Presidentbeen ?
w fromil lt tell
eyou
tPhraets President t
mosth has shownhts pre abilityee e e
res. capacity,dwh aWhat
e
he
jueecheaeedeedueineeaedlltdhheseecarnessuelthse?
has
be-
ginning to the end impressed upon the
theW h rye ahsaoen .
Lion of his honesty and of his fidelity people the convice
(Great cheering.) In conclusion,h to one great purpose.
he was thankful for having had the l 8
Excellency stated that
ing these sentiments, as an echo te
o the toast of the " Health
opportunity of express-
of the honoured President of th
The next toast was "The United States." (Cheers.)
drunk in a very hearty and Queen," whose health was
toasts and sentiment cordial manner. The remain-
ingswere ;_cc The Day devoted to
thanking God for our
Union," by Mr. Ge Victories in the cause of Liberty and
the Atlantic to the
Po, Thompson. ti The Union—from
the source to the a
cffic from the Lakes to the Gulf, from
mouth of the Mississippi, for ever one and
inseparable,'' by
Proclanta Judge J. G. Winter. " The Emancipa-
tionlon—Slavery's Epitaph; written by the
finger of God
the Hon. on the heart of the American President," by
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—or'''.
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." ti 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-TIIE
France will not fight for Poland hersellhainchdbaoltohtnoele;
combine is the
roebnswtc:reurctaiivde
which- England will not, and cannot, help her; therefore the only
policy on which they "n Polley
of tripping up Napoleon in his first move, and doing all i
Government ' e should
their power to keep things as they....ea.par,e.
heartily ashamed if England were betrayed
favourite dog-in-the-manger policy of hers,
re-
fuses to do anything itself for a nation in trouble, and
the only Power at all disposed to h
facia's her jealous fears. We should be
England were betrayed into it under QU ly ashamed
if
calls itself Liberal. nt that

SENSIBILITY IN PoLITICS. --Lord Rus-
to send the Englisil. fleet to the Baltic,
Ruskin shivers, and loses his healthy Lippe-
Isi:niferCi:
therefore
tite for communicating information on. the subject of pre-
Raffaelite art to mankind. Let us hope that so healthy an
selAl declines
organ will revive. Otherwise, if this contagion of political
sensibility spreads, the spirits of every profession in the
kingdom will fluctuate
stn ever with the funds, and all trade will
p y time an unfortunate measure is taken by her
Majesty's Cabinet. Professor Kingsley will decline .:o lcc•
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. The curates in tho'
country parishes will here and there refuse to read tho
Litany, or to baptise any children of tender years, i, inst
neoun
sequence of the detention of the steam rams.
" J.
49.,
for conscience sake go into a moral quarantine, and abstain
from all communication with his Ellow-crea
tariughes will
es s°
long
as
Colonel Crawley is unhung; and Mr. Tho.zr Bushes is ex-
be compelled to retire into private lii'e un;i slavery
North America, I
tinguished in the Confederate States
and greenbacks reign triumphant from washington to New
Orleans.-.-London Review.