The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-05 00:00:00

N°. 22,105,

...4d.
STAMPED ....sd.

Now ready, in Svo , with Maps and Illustrations, Ns.,
PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF THREE
YEARS' SERVICE IN CHINA.
Including Journeys to various parts hitherto unexplored.
By Lieut.-Col. FISHER, C. 8.,
Royal Engineers.
"We have been much gratified in reading this volume. A
r leasant vein of humour runs and sparkles throughout the
whole work."—Athenwum.
Richard Bent!ey, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

about half an hour's exposure he complained of the
cold, and asked for a shawl to wrap round his neck,
Some one immediately handed him a Federal flag,
and it was wrapped around his chest and shoulders,
amid the vociferous applause of the spectators.
Either from inability to withstand further exposure
to the north-east wind, or from a tense of the ridi-
culous, the poor old gentleman determined to retire,
which he did about 5 o'clock. The proceedings
lasted until past 7, the principal speakers being Mr.
Bancroft the historian, Mr. John Van Buren, Mr.
Raymond of the New York Times, and other gen-
tlemen whose names figure constantly at these meet-
ings, and without whose presence the programme
would be considered incomplete. Nothing of any
note was said by anybody. It was the old story ;
the old "Buncombe," the old determination never
to listen to peace while there was a rebel in arms
(or a dollar to be made out of the war), and the old
boast of the immense resources of the Northern
people which would ultimately overpower all oppo-
sition, and defeat not only the South, but the world
in arms. The only novelty was the declaration of
Mr.lJohn Van Buren—received, however, without a
cheer—that a foreign war would be very inexpe-
dient. "We must," said he, " have no trouble with
any foreign Power. We must make this our sole
controversy until it is ended. We must keep friends
with Great Britain, with France, and with Russia,
so that there will be no interference from abroad.
I have no doubt we can do so." The sensation
headings in the newspapers proclaim that at this
meeting there were " Music, cannon, flags, and
cheers." They do not add, however, that there
was little else beside a crowd of idle people, not
one of whom will, in all probability, be induced to
volunteer into the fast diminishing armies of the
Republic in consequence of anything he may have
heard or seen, or any patriotic sentiment that may
have been instilled into his mind by the speakers.
The Herald, which is not slow in discovering the
current of public opinion, has declared against the
useless folly of such gatherings. " Those who
take part in them," it says this morning, " are
only losing their time and getting themselves
laughed at." Add to this the widespread feeling
that it was an act of heartless cruelty on the part of
these republican Barnums to make a show of Gen.
Scott, an octogenarian in very delicate health, and
the verdict of the public on this last Loyal League
meeting will be complete. It is estimated that from
12,000 to 15,000 persons were present. Two noted
Irishmen, Judge Daly and Mr. J. T. Brady, he of
" the silver tongue," were advertised to be present,
and the town wan largely placarded with invitations
to their countrymen to gather around them, but
neither of them appeared. Mr. Brady sent a letter
of apology, and Judge Daly if present made no sign.
The murder of Col. Kimball by Gen. Corcoran
has excited so much ill feeling in the army, and led
to eo much unfavourable comment everywhere ex-
cept in the columns of the newspapers, that the
General has deemed it advisable to explain the cir-
cumstances under which the tragedy occurred. He
says he was on duty at 3 o'clock on a dark morning,
bearing an order to the front for the Major-General
in command, when he was stopped by a man whom
he did not know, but whom ha judged by his sword
to be an officer, and asked in a dictatorial manner
and with a profane oath for the countersign. He
declined to give it until his questioner informed him
who he was and by what authority he acted. An
altercation ensued, much foul language passed, Col.
Kimball would not give his name, rank, or autho-
rity, and persisted in blocking the way. " Bran-
dishing his sword in one hand, and having a pistol
in his other, as I then supposed," says the General,
" he made a movement towards me with the evident
design of using them, and at the same time said,' I
will be God —if you shall pass,' It was at this
point I used my weapon. Nothing but the conside-
ration that my life was in danger—which I had
reason to fear—and the duty incumbent on me al
that particular time, when an attack was appre-
hended, would have justified me in my own mind in
taking the measure I then did. It was not until after
the occurrence that I learned who he was; but had
he been my best friend I Jannot see how it could have

AN OFFERING TO LANCASHIRE.
Just published, 309 pp., price Os.,
SOMETHING NEW; or, TALES FOR THE TIMES
Edited by EUSTACE W. JACOB, late Capt. 99th Regt.
"A charming story book."—Naval and Military Gazette.
" ' Something New' is worth buying."—Hampshire Chro.
nicle.

Emily Faithful!, Victoria Press, 83 a, Parringdon-street.

THE PATRICIAN PUBL I C A N—Lord
Adolphus F. C. W. Vane Tempest—The Federal
Camp, &0., &c., in " FUN " this week. One Penny.

SAWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON DINNER
FOR THIS DAY.
At 2s. 6d. each Person.
SOUPS.
ASD aragus (clear),
FISH.
Stewed Eels. Fried Whitings.
ENTRE ES.
Lapin de Gareine frit au champi,znons.
Mutton, sauce romate.
J OIN TS.
Braised Mutton. Roast BeeE
SWEETS.
College Pudding. Lemon Jelly.
Cheese and Salad.
An extensive and carefully selected stock of FRENCH,
RHENISH, MOSELLE, and other WINES, imported ex-
pressly for the London Dinner.
THE LONDON, 191, FLEET-STREET.

A la Reine.

Cotelettes de

resulted otherwise, from the part he acted on tha

occasion. With no authority to demand the counter,

sign, I should have been derelict in my duty had I
yielded to his demand." Dead men tell no tales.
Colonel Kimball is in his grave, and in default of

his explanations it is probable that the Court of In

quirt' before which General Corcoran expresses his
readiness to appear may acquit him of all but rasb-

ness. But no real judgment can be passed until the

fact be ascertained whether the deceased was or was
not on duty. If he was, he was murdered ; if he
was not, he was cruelly slain ; and as this point can

be cleared up by the evidence of the superior officers

of the regiment to which the dead man belonged, it
is to be hoped that an official inquiry will be im-
mediately instituted. As long as a doubt remains,
even the Irish Brigade will not fight willingly
under Corcoran, and more than ordinary discredit
will hang upon the name of every political general,
without education or experience, who, like him,
was promoted for other than military reasons.
The civil war has either greatly demoralised a
large portion of the Northern clergy, or too many
of the persons who exercise in this country the
sacred functions of ministers of the Gospel are un-
fitted for their calling by want of education, man-
ners, and Christian charity. Foremost among the
abettors of strife, loudest and most relentless in
their denunciations of all who disagree from their
political and social dogmas, fiercest and most perti-
nacious in preaching a policy of vengeance and ex-
termination, such men as the Beechers and Cheevers

vhavevhi n
which
the
ee
meek
themselves s
ae
nl vde srelhtcsieozoK
.00nevs
gentlei
isitettwnpaerhgtidiocettdtueboaoeemu
teachers
Woe frnoofs
world,
lecdefvtehr.ey
religionquality
of love should not exhibit. Hitherto such utter-
ance have been individual rather than collective,
and have sprung in a greater degree from the idio-
action of the Churches. But now it would appear
syncr a c i e s of the
sthusetge:hbieiefsorterhelebva
rebellion
lef.rt 000 m Conferenceth e corporate
as if the evil example of the few had corrupted
the many; that the worst passions engendered by
the war had communicated, their contagion to
btheeeempuelpaits;
whose
mad-
ness ness and violence it ought to be their duty
privilege to restrain. No less
insensate and
atsh ethcel clergy
crowd,a a body
ad_
clergy-
menand, oi fn the
t h a Methodist
presence
oof Episcopal
ae:s
nvtilb.anr
nusehiotenet :opt
ttemCotthht
snhhhhieteahosgpranpecancnreaathariduusvatt:srih.ainetodelbsoakbenasutegjsye:htuaernefoasval
fwabotevW:teilniferheifthvaydt
ryodaei;eshtl
in annual conference in this citty
e
number of ladies,
8 unparal-
ettaoidtshaoauhtenonuohrenithe
uttereddllcbmeseepymudbsqnarryatmoeueeeiinissfstmlnaieetdieuetnngtl
bntthivi
document
inteeeoas.rortsmufnauai
eesotstdicrtrri
intimately
nheceples:
siheiypoealabstdeernoyfesedtmersibtrhroditbgtotuabohfeeyeostifindhi_enidtogni
ktocarheiehituitatfi
u wickedness; that the nationalvlai
unhcorniadti;tiothnaatl
loyalty to the Government ; that although the Con-
ference did not deny the right of the people to dis-
cuss
recommended greaetmcaanuatgioenmaenndt of public
in affairs,its
exercise ; that the conduct of those " who influenced
by political affinities or Southern sympathies," im-
peded the prosecution of the war, was a "covert
treason, which had the malignity without the man-
liness of the rebels in arms ;" that it heartily con-
curred in the President's proclamation, which
el

" guaranteed" the boon of freedom to millions of
slave ; that it rejoiced in the change of public
opinion abroad, especially in England ; and that it
prayed the Great Ruler of nations " to look on our
army and navy mercifully, and give success to our
arms so that this infamous rebellion might be
speedily crushed." The reading of the document
was received with the wildest enthusiasm. The
reverend politicians rose en masse, and marked their
approval of the most violent passages, especially that

.”. Eft
••• - .
... --/
.-
c/2
-..—G-Z----o'*
. ~
iii/
:
-- .
ieBB:rn;in:;.
---- ......
. .
',41.k i = •if 7,j1,4), 1,1/ . ,
- f \c: • 4.07.44. V tlijk . At4t Mkirmiik.t I?=7
ay..
Pij Ilap nr
~
,
...... ..tt_, , r",..4 , apt.
.4,1:,....5,-,.. r...,..„, , , . . ..
_ _..
• ~...-,75.i. it „...ii„,..
-........- ., ki,"'*lN •
, o
f. oa , 4 ,e .
~.„.., , ki-47 -ti—TTA.
4,1, i
.. ,
~41 . _ :4(,..,,,,,,:1at...) • - 1.-.. 71,1 .:
•,„. I
.----.;---,.
-...''l''' l''''‘
\'''',.' ~. :', -:-:4).'-illW r:r"--
..510-.>. 0
...,..? 1:‘,.....-4.,..- ..._ , - .
1, - -------77 11,746. IV •., #'' .....................................„

Etv s I, tit
,14-4V,\2
which denouneed the fret 7 ..41
re VOOl
friends of peace, by cheers, c,
bids, • ese ee, st:
Isanit •
stamping of feet. Bishop
was scandalised at the uns_
ef tgis -pre Si de
bi;
haviour, and informed the members
that such
manifestations were not appropriate either to
themselves or to the occasion. The Rev. Mr.
Foster asked if the Bishop alluded to the clap-
ping of hands ? The Bishop replied in the
affirmative. Mr. Foster seemed to think the bishop .
%v
,es wirkan for he declared that" on the great event
i his life-Mon the day when he was converted to
Jesus ho arose-lend:sieved his hands unto the Lord."
The Conference applauded as loudly as before ; some
one cried out " Glory teeeGod," and Mr. Foster sat
down, having, to all appearance, discomfited the
bishop, and carried off the honours of the discussion.
The Rev. Dr. Osborne, of White liking, said that
during the last year his mind had been in a constant
state of anxiety about his beloved country. e
had to contend against a great deal in his district,
for the infamous Copperheads were as thick as
blackberries, and he often felt as if he would like
thrashing a man to be a Christian virtue, that ho
might have the privilege of digging into such fel-
lows." Here was loud laughter from the reverend
auditory as well as a fluttering of fans in the galle-
ries. Encouraged by this, Dr. Osborne went on to
say, " that if he were President Lincoln, instead of
suspending the writ of Habeas Corpus he would
suspend the Copperheads." The delight of the Con-
ference at this burst of wit, patriotism, liberality,
and mercy, having once again manifested itself by
clapping, stamping, and shouting, the presiding
bishop ventured to make a second remonstrance.
"He approved," he said, " of the resolutions, but
not of the clapping of hands and the stamping of
feet. The ministers ought not to forget their own
sacred character or the proprieties of the occasion.
If they wished to express their approval, let them
say, Amen ! till they raised the very roof above
them; but let them remember above all things that
they were clergymen." The Rev. Mr. Foster, the
same who had " clapped his hands unto the Lord,"
said that the South hated the Yankees, despised,
scorned, and held them in ridicule, and he for one
hoped that the war would go on until such hellish,
devilish ideas were whipped out of the people of
the Southern States. To accomplish that object he
did not care if the war went on for one, two, or ten
years." A second Mr. Foster, recently from New
Orleans, where he had acted as chaplain to a regi-
ment, complained of the ladies of that city, who
insulted every Yankee they met in the streets,
sometimes crossing on the other side to show their
contempt. The common cry among them was,
" Take care of your pockets, here's a Yankee
coming." "He wonted that feeling whipped out of
the Southern people by shot and shell." The Rev.
J. R. Wakeley informed the Conference that " the
proper way to treat a Copperhead was to stamp your
heels on him." Suiting the action to the word he
stamped his foot violently on the floor, amid im-
mense applause of clapping, but not of Amens, sic-
ceeded by peals of laughter and a titter from the
galleries, when the Rev. Mr. Fox, apostrophising
the pantomimist, said, " Brother Wakeley, you
almost made a hole in the floor that time !" Up to
this point there had been perfect unanimity in the
meeting, with the slight exception of the Bishop's
mild remonstrances in favour of clerical propriety ;
but as soon as the votes were taken by yeas and nays
on the several reaolutions appended to the report a
difference of opinion began to display itself. Two
gentlemen of New York, the Rev. Messrs. Cattell
and Setlek, objected to endorse or approve the Pre-
sident's Proclamation of Emancipation and the pro-
vocation to a war of races involved in it, and ex-
pressed their dissent with such a loud and emphatic
" No!" that the Conference was startled. Cries were
raised that Mr. Cattell should explain himself and
prove his loyalty. Amid much interruption, hisses,
and cries of " Sit down," " You're not loyal," he pro-
ceeded to explain that he loved the Union that he
was a Puritan of the old Massachusetts stock, and
that he was as loyal as any of them, but that "he
would not swallow their resolution on slavery, or
ever give up the right of free speech." By this
time the hour of adjournment had arrived, the reso-
lutions were carried, and the clerical brawlers dis-
persed. If the ideas they expressed be the Gospel
of the North, and they its recognised teachers, the
North may have a religion, but it is not Christianity
or anything like it.