The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-23 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 23, 1863.

The simultaneous publication of the Presidential
Messages—that of ABRAHAM LINCOLN to the
Yederais, that of JEFFERSON DAVIS to the Confe-
derates—brings, now, more vividly than ever into
strong relief the contrast presented to view
throughout this disastrous civil war, upon a corn-
Pairtihavni of the two men, or of the two Governments. 1
A
"til the Northern President was seriously in-
valided at the date of his communication to the
Congress
tVashington, the tone of his Message, it
will be pezae
i'veti, was in no degree more placable.
The contest Was still to be fought out to
the death. re,
-.ere was to be no mitigation
at sill of thE,
horrors of this ferocious
struggle. In anewer to the secession of the South,
there was to be no concern'
ewion of any kind on the
part of the North. Th
project of subjugating
territories
still obedient to the power
the enormous terr..or
that is at Richmon,a, was
_et
acted "
upon, was et
maintained in argument, as vs_n y
u dream admitting. of realisation,
mortar
it were a day-
from making
any attempt of even the Partial kind
towards lessening the horrors sv
1,-;
;Civil war in
Ppursuance of this
nom, ria"*Ei assiduously
insane
Presi-
dent LINCOLN is striving,
than ever to intensify those horrors by Ming to
the iiarkness of civil war the double darkness
ot
servile. war—and that servile war one actually
dandled into being by Mr. LINCOLN in the dent,
crated names of humanity, ofof
philanthropy,
negro emancipation. In powerful contrast with
the incoherence and menace of the Northern Pre-
sident's 111eisage, the Message penned by President
DAVIS--a 'ter giving a masterly summary of the
eventfi which have taken place in vari-
ous parts of the seat of war since the date
of Vie last communication addressed by him to the
Ue.mgress at Richmond, a summary in which no
'failure on the part of the South is veiled or glossed
over, and in which no success of theirs is in any
way exaggeratcd—intimates in terms the plainest,
tiva strongest, the calmest, the most unhesitating,
unshaken resolve of the Confederate Govern
to withstand the deadly efforts made by the
aorta .
• to effect the conquest of the Southern States,
by ea doing, to deal a death blow at their rights
hEI a Free People of Sovereign independence. Upon
Confederate PR
this
P5l" the C FSIDENT argues with
Ircor, (3c rf. ul force at tht: very close of his remarkable
that the pedoraia
" having begun the war
212 direct violation of their .
Constitution, WHICH FOR-
tnE Tin ATTEupT TO COERCE A STATE, have been
50 hardened rn tbrs illegal and unconstitutional
have been so hardened in it by the mere
proceeding,
ferocities of the contest upon
which they have thus
r, cklessl:v a-
fiventa,red, that they no
longer 'endea-
, L
Tour O once al __al in ally way the
purpose with which
being carried
the war is now on, namely, at
all cost and at all hazard, to pull (low_ to the dust
e ro States, to subvert al-
the institutions of the South
together their Independency,.
even in thEi meet brit-
together their Soverego,y
werubere of
At all cost ! Therein luck,liant successes
(rater on to be re.
achieved by the superior
the North, the secret Nemesis