The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-17 00:00:00

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INEWSPAPER
—cannibals, not reselling up even to
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civilisation of the Feejee islanders, -afle-4ea eerN vr
race which the Europeans came in pi
upon that continent. But what hO3 c
'rytvof the two races. The Indian race—t jeallEA
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—incapable of domestic life, incapable
wild and nomadic pursuits, has been driveNbacil
to narrower circles, with diminished means of
subsistence; not to degradation, but almost to
extinction. Those noble tribes have, in fact, almost
disappeared before the advancing wave of our civi-
lisation. The other race—the negeo race—with all
its foulness, with ail its prosaic vulgarity, n,taral'y
servile, timid, and dotricstica`,ed, has been—in spilt)
of the institution of slavery, if you pease—raised
tip higher and higher in the so2ial scale, until it
furnishes heroes and heroines for modern romances,
ittintelsief(s)roerideeirrneks o
songts,and invited by sfatesmeu
European equality. The
institution which has done so much for this race
should certainly have some of the odium which has
been thrown upon it deducted. But lam told that
having brought them to that point of civilisation it
iteo our
oweduty-Tatuedtutityemt.hat(lNivaear.) Well, I have to
to Christendom—
answer that British state me
n British philosophers,
and British travellers, all unit unite in the testimony
that the emancipation of that race at this time,
and especially by the mode pointed out by those
people in the North whowoaurledslo)ecalnama
appalling
rpoaul
ls
nf ogr
no or
sn
0-
tit
hear.) Whether tsobuotitohnarl eracgeosv.(nameeanrt,,
Whether that be so
or not, I think I may with safety say that the many
boons which have been conferred upon that race,
that the earnest conduct as Christians and fellow-
men which we have observed to the inferior race_
inferior inconsequence of centuries of barbarism and
ignorance—are sufficient guarantees to civilisation
that if the time should ever come when we have
reason to believe that liberty would he a boon to
'them and not a curse, we shall be prepared to con-
fer that boon upon them also. And if, indeed, the
time should ever come when they are capable of en-
joying freedom, and when they themselves assert
their right, we could not if we would withhold that
boon. It is said by those who have been misrepre-
senting the South, and said for years to English
audiences by men who have never lived in the
South—and who do not know as much of her
people and of her institutions as you do, because
they are blinded by fanaticism—who have always
hated us when union was not their pretext, but
when under the banner of disunion they poured
forth a:stream of falsehood and vituperation on us
—these men have stated publicly in England that
the negro in the South was deprived of all the rights
of a human being by the law of the Southern States,
that he was;:considered entirely in the light of a
chattel. Now, I assert to you that that statement
is untrue. On the contrary, the laws of every
Southern State regard them as brethren and as
Christians, and they have had thrown around them all
the guarantees of personal security which are thrown
around every other class. The law denouncees the
penalty of death on him who murders a negro, and de-
nounces the pnnishment of imprisonment in a peni-
tentiary against any person committing a penal act
against him. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I will
close what I have to say simply by thanking you
for the demonstrations of interest and sympathy
which you Lave made for our country. I know
they exist in every English mind, and they cannot
be kept out by any barriers of Custom-house regu-
lations, by the regulations of States, or neutrality
proclamatio:is. (Hear, hear.) Like an ethereal
essence, it has already leaped over its bounds, and
tends to raise the hearts of our people to higher
thoughts and more heroic deeds; and that, gentle-
men, is the secret of the enmity which has been
shown in the North to your people; but I hope the
time may soon come when the South can answer for
England. (Loud applause.)

Various other toasts of a local character were
then given and responded to, and the proceedings
did not terminate till a late hour.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS,

This board held their usual weekly meeting yesterday, at
their offices in Spring-gardens; Mr. J. Thwaites in the
chair.

The cash statement showed the balance in the hands of
the treasurer to be £202,552 43 11d, Government securities,
£87,590 9s Id, and total of cheques ordered but not pre•
seated, £28,653 163 7d.
REPORT FROM STREETS COMMITTEE.

This report, recommending that the sum of £5OO by way
of loan from the general current account of the board to
the Finsbury-park current account, the Finsbury-park ac-
count being charged with the deposit rate of interest until
the amount shall be repaid ; and that a cheque bo drawn for
the arbitrators' charges amounting to £221 13s 2d, " In re
Wing (Finsbury-park)," was received.