The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-03 00:00:00

THE GORDIAN KNOT.

All reform must grow ; it cannot safely be made.
To lecture a man upon the nastiness of chewing
tobacco, while taking a pinch of snuff, seems to
him unreasonable and impertinent. We in the
Free States must treat the black as a man before
twreeahtavheimanays right the
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isnot to
inconsistency
which makes the South look upon our antislavery
feeling as the simple arrogance of the pharisee, and
indisposes it to give that respectful attention to cur
opinion which it would otherwise receive. The
Southerner points to that unerring index of con-
tent and wellbeing, increase of population' as a
proof beyond declamation or assertion that the
ry
black face is more happy in its state of slave
than in its condition of freedom. It points to the
record of crime in the Free States, which shows the
white race with a far larger average of criminality
than the black race, and asks us if that condition
is to be preferred which brings such results. It
points to the legislature of States which exclude
the free blacks from their soil, and asks why it
should be subjected to that curse which other
States so sedulously guard themselves from. II hat
honest answer is there to such questions ? The idea
of the Tribune is to make all the blacks of the
United States American citizens, but is the notion
practicable ? Before entering upon so vast an ex-
periment would it not be advisable
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make the
experiment upon a small scale
State of New York to look upon the black as a man
equally entitled and equally capable as the white
to exercise the right of elf-government ? We very
much doubt it. It will not do to say that thenegro
is considered inferior in New York because his
race is slave in the South. No white race would
have remained slave at the South. That this is
true can be seen from our treatment of the Indian.
That race is a noble race, a far superior animal to
the negro, and yet the common sense of this
country sets them apart. Since the whites
landed they have murdered and cheated the
Indian eternally, and will do so until not a
red skin remains. As the Indian cannot be
white, he dies. He will not serve. You can as
easily yoke a lion. But the basis'of the negro's
mental characteristics is self .enjoyment, and con-
sequently he serves and finds not much aspiration
beyond comfort. He does not long for liberty,
except as synonymous with exception from stated
toil. That the negro is capable of improvement,
that in the course of time, by contact with the
white, his physical nature and consequently his
moral nature will be changed, is inevitable. When
that change is effected his social condition and po-
litical status will be changed also. This, however,
is the work of generations, and will be the result
of natural laws as slow but as certain as those
which govern the formation of coral islands in the
sea. From not perceiving this great truth, from
too eager aspirations that the good which genera-
tions are needed to effect be completed in their day,
men are abolitionists, and have inoculated the
people of the North with their unreason, There is
slavery at the South, not because men there differ
from men here, but because the South has an im-
mense black population, which it fears to keep in
any other condition. It has seceded because it
believed that the North attempted, through the
agency of a common government, to compel the
adoption by the South of its views upon the ques-
tion. In other words, it believes that it is vindi-
cating the great principle of self-government. With
this belief it is idle to suppose that the war will
be ended either by the taking of strongholds or the
beating of armies alone. Such is the intense love
of liberty in the American nature that all physical
power will have to be completely crushed before
opposition ceases. It is not the will of the South
we have to subdue, but the convictions of evil
which we have to dissipate.—New York TVorld.

PONTEFRACT ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—Having seen Sir C. Head's speech at Pontefract
in favour of free trade, &c., I am at a loss to know what he
means, as he advocates the renewal of the monopoly of the
Hudson's Bay Company and its presumed sovereignty over
three.fourths of British America against the public
interests. He is also the nominal chairman of the com-
pany, alio nomine.
Sir Edmund wishes to support British shipping, if in
earnest he can do so by exacting reciprocity from the
United States. TRAVELLER.

A communication from Stockholm of the 25th
gives some details of the arrival of Prince Amadeus
of Italy :—" The Prince has just landed here from
Lubeck and alighted at the residence of the Marquis
Thaliavarni, Italian Minister at the Court of Sweden.
All the members of the Royal family
being tempo
rarily absent from the capital, Count Manaerstrom,
-
Minister of Foreign Affairs, waited on the Prince
to deliver an autograph•re letter fromwtehl
welcome
King,
which
in
h
he desired to give L.? family,
which his Majesty expressed his regret at being
compelled to defer for a few
days
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u personally. While waiting
Tiniversity of Upsal, as well
foors thee s
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as the naval worts o fta h
pDf the Prince pro-
, oval
r . progress at the fortress
of Carlscrona.,.
The Court of Assizes of the Seine on Friday tried
two commission agents, named Krieg and Verel, the
former residing at Marseilles and the latter at Paris, both
representatives of the firm of Nadiroff and Co., silkmer-
chants at Tiflis (Georgia), for forging and despatching two
telegrams to Tiflis, on the 18th April last, with intent to
injure the brothers Stepaun and Martiros Termykertit-
chiang. silkmerchants at Tiflis and Paris. It appeared
from the evidence that on the 27th of April, Stepaun re-
ceived at Tiflis two telegrams from Paris, apparently
from his brother Martiros. One of them was sent off
at 10 am. on the 18th, and contained the following
words Wool and cotton, much lower ; silk
higher ; receiving two bales wool ; business very bad at pre-
sent." The other was couched as follows :—" This morn-
ing's eespatch annulled; await letter." On May 14, Mar-
tiros received a letter from his brother stating that these two
despatches had greatly embarrassed him. Martiros at once
endeavoured to discover the authors of them, and traced
them to the prisoners, who had forwarded them to
promote the interests of their principals, Nadiroff and
Co., by keeping Termykertitchiang out of the market for a
time. Krieg at once confessed that he had forwarded the first
despatch to Verel in Paris by letter, requesting him to send
it to Tiflis, and had been enabled to give it an appearance
of reality by seeing the two bales of wool inscribed in a
ship's manifest. Verel confirmed this statement, and added
that having, after reflection, repented of the fraud he had
practised, he sent off the second despatch the same
day to prevent its doing any mischief. The prisoners
both declared that they were not at first aware of
the gravity of the act they had committed, and
seemed very penitent. The counsel for the defence argued
that their clients had not been guilty of forgery in the legal
sense of the word, and denied that the brothers Termy-
kertitchiang had any claim for damages. The jury, taking
that view of the case, brought in a verdict of not guilty,
and the Court, in pronouncing their acquittal, said that the
question of damages must be decided by a Civil Tribunal.
A pleasure yacht built for the Empress by MM.
Mazeline of Havre was launches on Thursday
last in the Vauban Basin. Its dimensions are—length,
18 metres, and breadth, 3 in. 75 c. It has two screws, both
aft, worked by engines with tubular boilers constructed after
acht intende
designs by M. Cody, an engineer attached to MM. Maze.
lines's establishment. The hull is made of sheet
is steel,and
fittingsmaprereransaoganyy
between. Parislhi s
and St. Cloud. Its
thefor
the internal
useoE of
the
draught of water is alaout 24 inches, and its speed nine knots
an hour.
LE RoI L'Amuss !—King Otho of Greece is, we
hear, about to seek rest "from his cares of government and
other in Bamberg ; and he has promised
to aid the experiences"loca
local theatre so considerably that a Dramaturg,
s ad
Victor Herzenskron of Munich, has been appointed by the
director, and great things will soon be heard of.
M. Auber, wonderful octogenarian, is just finish-
ag a new work for the opening of the coming keasou.