The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-13 00:00:00

seats, that of himself as M.P. then in eue (which
he threw up) at Andover, and that (as he
thought) as M.P. in posse (which he grasped
at) in London ! Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON, it
is true, still maintains his ground at South-
ampton—with but feeble chance, however, it is
to be feared by even his meat sanguine friends
of making a worthy appearance anywhere
but on the hustings. The contest is likely to lie, as
we have said, between the first come and the last
come of the candidates for the votes of the men of
Southampton. Between Captain MANGLES and
the present Lord Mayor (ROSE) of the City of Lon-
don, like the last Lord Mayor (CUBITT), himself a
Conservative. We look with confidence to the deci-
sion of the liberal constituency of Southampton—to
the decision, of course, triumphantly and unmistak-
ably in favour of Captain MANGLES, the Liberal
candidate.

The most serious part of the news from Ame-
rica, which we published yesterday, is undoubt-
edly that which informs us of the almost certain
success of the Democratic party. There can hardly
be a doubt now that in the North itself the great
Republican party, which so triumphantly returned
the PRESIDENT, is the losing one, and that the
Democrats have acquired a real ascendancy. They
have done so, it is true, by professing Union prin-
ciples, and by demanding that the South shall be
compelled to return to the Union, provided it can
in no way be conciliated; but, then, there is no-
thing they would not do for conciliation. They
are sincerely Union men. They believe in " ma-
nifest destiny" and in all the dreams whieh Ame-
rican ambition of a republic comprising the North
American continent has indulged ; hence they will
not, or could not, hear of separation, chiefly because
it would endanger that supremacy among the em-
pires of the world which they think the proper
position for their great republic.
But their chief difference from. the Republicans
is on the everlasting subject of slavery, The Re-
publican platform of 1860 distinctly asserted that
" the new dogma that the constitution by its own
force carries slavery to any or all of the territories,
is a dangerous political heresy," and goes on to
show its mischievous working. In another clause
it lays down that "the normal condition of all the
territories of the United States is that of freedom,"
and it " denies the authority of Congress, of a ter-
ritorial legislature, or of any individuals, to
give legal existence to slavery in any territory
in the United States." The Democratic platform
re-affirmed with additions in 1850, approves those
atrocious proceedings in Kansas, which all parties
in England denounced with such indignation at the
time, and which the Republicans also condemn. It
also distinctly asserts, in opposition to the Repub-
lican platform, the right of slaveholders to enter the
territories, and when the population of a territory
has become sufficiently large, to bring it into the
Union as a Slave State. Both parties equally con-
cede the sovereign rights of existing States, and
the consequent impossibility of Congress inter.
fering with slavery in them. Both also accept the
Fugitive Slave Law as required by their common
constitution. The great difference between their
platforms, therefore, is their treatment of the ter-
ritories. These the Republicans regard as sacred
to freedom, the Democrats as equally open to
slavery. This is an undeniable fact, one
which they not only do not conceal, but openly
avow. And yet there are Englishmen who do not
blush to re-baptize American Democracy by the
name of Conservatism, and then to fall down and
worship it. English journals can exult in the
success of a party whose public creed aims at cover-
ing all the yet free territories of the United States
with the atrocity of slavery.
As might be expected, their entire proceedings
and policy are tainted with the vice of their funda-
mental distinction. In everything they lean to the
slaveholders. They object to Congress doing any-
thing to mitigate the frightful evils of their reign.
All Mr. LINCOLN has done in regard to the district
of Columbia, the offering of Federal pecuniary aid
to emancipation, the recognition of Hayti, and
above
all
emancipationsanthueary,hasbeen
proclamationopposed for
by
the Ist
bitterly
the Democrats. Whatever
England has thought
best in theP
REBID ENT'S policy, the Democrats have
thought worst. The U • nion, with
free course for
the increase of slavery and the
slave power, has
been their policy. The reason
is that the crafty
slaveholders, by connecting themselves with the
Democrats, enabled the latter to obtain the sweets
of office with all its " spoils"—the former receiving
in
receiving
in return protection for the most exorbitant claims
of the " domestic institution." Hence the Demo-
crats have come to regard slavery as the foundation
of their political ascendancy. And it was so, till
the atrocities in Kansas, and the DEED SCOTT de-
cision, disgusted such numbers in the Northern
States that they transferred their votes to the Re•
publicans, and thus gave them their late majority.
Mr. LINCOLN, we are told, has " expressed his
surprise and regret at the turn the elections have
taken." We can well imagine it. Yet it is not
difficult to be accounted for. He has done all he
could to keep off the taxgather and the conscrip-
tion lists till after the elections, still enough of
them has been seen to make their inflaence felt, and
it has not of course been favourable to the party