The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-29 00:00:00

the Government. A declaration of immediate
emancipation would have torn the conclave
vault of Heaven, so grand would have been the
shouts of the people. It was the conduct of the
nation towards the enslaved, and not towards the
rebels, that would decide this contest on the part
of the God of Justice. He prophesied that if the
Cotton States continued in rebellion the Border
States would be placed between two fires, and that
Congress would be compelled to abolish the Fugitive
Slave Law and make the proclamation universal.
He was opposed to the proclamation, because it de-
, ?rived .he loyal Slave States of the blessings of
emancipation. It was, in this respect, like admit-
ting the Rebel States to the joys of Heaven, and
keeping the Border States in the fires of Hell. The
President had no right to set at nought the com-
mand of God by recognizing slavery in the loyal
States. God had not allowed the nation to hold
slavery as its reserved capital, by the use of which
it hoped to conquer in this war. We must have
justice rather than the Union, supposing the Union
to be founded on injustice. If the rebels returned
to their allegiance before the let of January the
continuance of slavery would be our act, and all the
waters of the ocean would not wash out the stain."
It is not the fashion in the Church of the Puritans,
as it is in that of the Rev. Henry Watd Beecher, for
the audience to cheer or to laugh, or to exhibit any
signs of approval or disapproval, but several times
during the sermon the sensation produced by the
rev, gentleman's denunciations was as palpable as if
Allied been expressed in the more vulgar manner of
the theatre. The Abolitionists are determined that
the President shall not be allowed to stand upon his
proclamation if any efforts of theirs can move him
to go further. They have succeeded in coercing
him already, and will coerce him again. In his
inaugural address he said, "I have no purpose,
directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institu-
r
Lion of slavery in the States where it exists. I be-
lieve I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no
inclination to do so." The war and the passions of
the people have moved since that time, and the
President has moved along with them. He is on
what the French call a pente, and can scarcely stay
himself if he would, even if the Abolitionists should
restrain from pushing him into the abyss.
Nor has he been more fortunate with the scheme
of expatriation of the negroes, which he was in-
duced to encourage, against his better judgment, in
order to conciliate the negro haters in Illinois, who
will not allow a black man to settle in their State,
and the Irish in all parts of the Union, who detest
these poor people, not alone for the colour of their
skins, but for their competition in the labour
market. The negroes have, with few exceptions,
declined to entertain the point, and Senator Pome-
roy, of Kansas, who was to have been the white
Moses of the black race, and to have led them to a
Central American Canaan, called Chiriqui, has
finally abandoned the project, as far as that place
is concerned—the Government of New Grenada,to
which it belongs, having peremptorily refused its
permission. Whether he will proceed to Liberia
with the first 500, who were to have been ready to
start for Chiriqui by the 20th of this month, is not
yet known ; but, whether he do so or not, it is clear
that the expatriation of negroes on a large scale will
is very unlikely that Mr.
never take place, and it
Lincoln will ever again recommend it.
.
The Federal newspapers indulge at times in a
good deal of merriment at the expense of the shoe-
less and ragged regiments of " Stonewall" Jackson
and other Confederate generals. But none of them
attempt to raise a laugh at the expense of their own
regiments, who suffer more from the effects of too
much shoe than the" rebels" do from the effects of
too little. The shoes of the Federal army, supplied
on contract by rich shoe manufacturers in New
England—none of whom very ardently desire the
speedy conclusion of the war—are not better fitting
than the shoes of soldiers are generally found to be
in all parts of the world ; and they produce in a
few days callosities on toe and heel that impede the
advance and aggravate the retreat, and sometimes
render an army with shoes no match for an army
without them. But the Federal Government, with
plenty of paper dollars to buy shoes, has a watchful
eye over its soldiers. It is not so cruel as to depriN e
them of shoes altogether ; it will not interfere with
the contract articles duly provided at a high but ac-
antelr_egard, to
ac-
cepted price ; and it cannot force shoemakers to con-
struct shoes
upon the principles of common sense
it a"
qualified corpsof
the delicate anatomy of the foot; but
provide the army with an authorized and
has latel bd`
oTlicures" and chiropodists. This
President. To each -133:
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express command of the
tuvuli°ll of the army is to be