The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-14 00:00:00

ment can be ascribed his eradication of a great evil
from certain hostile soils, and the sufferance and
protection of it in others friendly to him and faith-
ful to the Constitution ? Is he returning good for
evil, and saying to the rebels, as you have smitten
me I will deliver your land from its opprobrium and
bane ? Though we are taught to love them that hate
us, we are not enjoined to injure those who love us.
And how are we to account for the President's per-
mitting the curse of slavery to survive in the States
faithful to him ? Why is a loyal State to have the
abomination fixed upon it that has been uprooted
from the neighbouring rebel community? Which
is reward, which punishment ? The reward looks
like punishment, the punishment like reward, that
is, if there be any truth and sincerity in the tenets
of Abolitionists, a large hypothesis we admit. What
d oes Mr. Sumner think, what does Mrs. Stowe
think, of purging the rebel States of their great
offence, and leaving it to scourge the loyal with its
complication of mischiefs? Surely they would say
to the President, " Reverse your decree. Give the

boon of emancipation to the loyal to elevate their
condition, moral and industrial, and finally improve
their property. Let the curse of slavery be the por-
tion of those who take evil for good, and who have
broken the Union." Where would Mrs. Stowe now
for choice place Uncle Tom's cabin ? Should it be
in Carolina or Maryland ? Would the black's bon-
dage be sweetened by the loyalty of a border State ?
Would his declared freedom for vengeance be pre-
cious to a Christian mind in a rebel State ?
The decree of the President has, indeed, nothing
to do NN ith the question of slavery, morally and po-
litically considered. How it will affect the blacks
has not been thought of, except to turn their hands

against their white masters engaged in the Southern
cause. Abolition is simply another word for the
last and the worst vengeance. It is to destroy what
cannot be recovered. To eke out by a servile war
what cannot be effected by a civil war.
From the first we predicted that in this detestable
quarrel abolition would be the last arm of venw2ance;
that it would be made a pretence of till the game
should appear desperate, and then resorted to as a
sure stroke of mischief—sure to carry the war to
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But in these crooked politics, as in mechanics,
action and reaction tire equal and contrary, and
President Lincoln's decree will probably make
more enemies for him in the North and West than
insurgent blacks in the South. Bitterly as the
Northern men hate the Southerners, they would not
endure the idea of the triumph of the blacks over
their white enemies; not that they would care for
the sufferings, but that they would grudge the
blacks the luxury of inflicting them, and the riot in
rape and murders. This would be the feeling of
the worst men in the North ; while that of the best
must be the revolt of the humane and civilised
against any instigation to a war as much worse
than civil war, as civil is worse than any other.
Jealousies of liberty cannot be all dead in Ame-
rica, and people must ask whether they are to sub-
mit to the decree of the poor puppet President as to
those of Providence, and to bless his name who
giveth and taketh away,—giving liberty to blacks,
and taking
it away from born freemen. The free-
dom of the Press, the freedom of speech are gone ;
and arbitrary arrests are as common now in the
remnant of the broken Union as they were in the
old regune of France, in the worst days of the
lettres de cachet and the Bastile.

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THE hum GAG.—These Irish outrage. a .
coming serious. Besides the scene in Hyde Park, a fight
has occurred in Field.lane, in which the police were. defied..
All. this is simply A man was struck down in Broad-street on suspicion of
being 4 Garibaldian. Four soldiers have been wounded in
'Tuthill-fields, and the Lord Mayor. has deemed if necessary
to refuse the use of the Guildhall to a Garibaldian meeting.
right to abuse Garibaldi as much. as they like, but not to
stop. other people from praising him, and the tacit permis.
until
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Irish rioters who attacked a
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bating society were sent home by two sensible priests, but,
in London we fear the disorders AVM be allowed to continue
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and lives have been lost. Then the authorities will pro.
little earlier. We are not going to have Judge Lynch en-
throned in London.--Spectator.
earnest, but it might be expedient to do it a