The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-27 00:00:00

Northern Valour and Chivalry.

Before our unhappy conflict broke out it had become so
deep and settled a conviction among the people of the
South that it had almost grown to be a maxim that our
fellow citizens of the North would not and could not
fight; that by a long, persistent, and exclusive devotion
to the acts and labors of peace, they had become effeminate
and timid, and that the nobler and essential qualities of
manhood had been eviscerated from their organisations.
But this ridiculous idea has now, by the progress of events,
been thoroughly and, we trust, for ever falsified. The
South have found (and from the generosity of their nature
we believe aro not ashamed to own) that in council or on
the battle field, in silent endurance and in active strife,
their fellow countrymen of the North are fully their equals
—that in the recent struggle no obstacles discouraged,
and no disasters appalled them—that, thoroughly imbued
with the dominant idea of the integrity of the Union, no
sacrifice was too great to be made, no privations or suf-
ferings too great to be endured to maintain it. Hence, in
the minds of our people as well as of foreign nations,
there has been awakened a deep and abiding respect—
the respect which always follows success—and the more
especially when that success is an evolution of the noblest
and brightest attributes of humanity, the existence of
which, in the one people, had not only been not suspected,
but emphatically denied by the other.
We have for our guarantees of a sincere and lasting
peace and final perfect reconciliation both the teachings
of the history of our common race for centuries past, and
of every feeling and sentiment of self-interest—respect
and honor that can control the minds and direct the con-
duct of men. If we ask more than this we are certainly
inconsistent and unreasonable, and if we demand more,
we shall reject a certain present good for an uncertain
andgloomyfu
Republican.ture,theen end of which no man can fore-
tell.—Savannah

CONVICTED BY A COD.—A rather curious instance
of conviction by evidence from the mouth of a cod occurred
in Scrabster Roads the other day. The captain had some
fresh herrings for breakfast, and some of those that wero
left were thrown overboard by the cook, who was either
too lazy or too careless to put them away as he was told to
do. The herrings being subsequently asked for, as the cap-
tain wished to fish for cod, the cook declared he knew
nothing at all about them, but that he was certain they had
not been thrown overboard. No sooner were the words
out of his mouth than the captain, who had felt a pull at
his line, drew in a great bouncing fellow of a cod, and the
moment the cod fell on deck one of the identical herrings
in dispute fell out of its mouth at the storyteller's feet, thus
convicting him by the mouth of a witness whose stomach,
when taken out of his native element, was more tender
than the cook's conscience.--John O'Groat Journal.
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