The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-03 00:00:00

of importance as proving the preternaturally ex-
cited state of the public mind. But high above all
the general dislike of the Republican and Abolition
party to this General is heard predominant. The
rescue of Washington and Baltimore out of the very
jaws of the advancing Confederates has not been
sufficient to inspire them with confidence in a man
who is not" square" on the slavery question. The
battle of Antietam—so bravely fought, ijid so nar-

rowly won, has not satisfied them that he is the
person to lead the national armies to assured vic-
tory, and all the old hints, innuendos, and scandals
are revived to his disfavour. In the meantime the
army continues to have thorough confidence in him
if in nobody else, though his army is but a fragment
of what it might be, and very ill provided. The Re-
publican journals hint of something decisive that is
about to be done, and of some " lofty head" which
is to be struck by a sudden thunderbolt. These
utterances are the results of spite, growing out of the
unfavourable turn which the State and Congressional
elections have recently taken, and which bids far
to hamper the President for the next two years
with a Democratic Legislature as well as a Demo-
cratic General. But, although the hatred of the
Abolition party against M'Cletlan is as unreasonable
as it is excessive, it does not follow that the Presi_
dent will not be badgered, or otherwise coerced,
into a course which his cooler judgment might dis-
approve, and that the best general which the Go-
vernment can boast will not be .sacrificed to the
jealousies of the ultra-Abolitionists.

The publication of General Scott's letter to Mr.
Seward has created a profound impression. The
general stands so high in the estimation of the
people—and he has proved his loyalty to the Union
so thoroughly by that hardest of all sacrifices to a
man of Southern birth, disloyalty to his native
State—that his words fall on the public ear with
greater impressiveness than those of any other liv-
ing man in America. He at least foresaw the mag-
nitude of the struggle, though Mr. Lincoln, Mr.
Seward, Mr. Cameron, Mr. Chase, and all the Re-
publican party leaders deceived themselves. Mr.
Lincoln diffidently called for 75,000 men, as if that
number might have been considered too large for
the purpose, and Mr. Seward and the Northern
press, with few exceptions, were of opinion in the
excess of their confidence that 90 days would restore
the Union, none the worse, and, possibly, somewhat
the better for the shaking it would have received
in the interval. General Scott declared to them in
words of solemn warning that not four times 75,000
men, disciplined soldiers, led for three years by a
young general of the highest military genius, and

the greatest good fortune, could mend the broken
Republic ; but that at the best such a general and
such an army, at an untold cost of treasure and suf-

fering, could but temporarily re-establish the Fe-
deral authority over 15 discontented, troublesome,
and never-to-be-conciliated provinces and depen-
dencies. The warning voice was unheeded, mainly
because of the ignorance of the men to whom it was
addressed ; men who had never resided in the South,
and who, with the exception of Mr. Lincoln in his
youth, when he navigated his barge on the Missis-
sippi, had never even travelled through the cotton
and rice-producing regions, and to whom South Caro-
lina,Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana were as strange
and unfamiliar (except through the superficial know-
ledge acquired by books) as the interior of Africa.
But the voice has now reached the ears of the North-
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be aware their leaders were wrong in refusing to
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