The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-15 00:00:00

tardy in their coming, they were as certain to fall
upon its guilty head as the Day of Judgment."
His second class is one to which he shows no
mercy, but to which a well known writer from
Liverpool, and we are sorry to add tho influential
journal in which he writes, is lenient almost to
laudation. Their true character, at least, is veiled
in all kinds of euphemisms, and when nothing else

will do, the provoking errors of the North are in-
voked to make these men appear half virtuous in
our indignation with their assailants. This
class consists of all those " owners,
breeders, users, bnyers and sellers of
slaves, who will—until the bloody chapter has a
bloody end, own, breed, use, buy, and sell them at
all hazards. Mr. DICKENS, twenty years ago,
could see that such was the temper of the men
directly interested in American slavery, that the
system would never die a natural death. That it
was one which would go on increasingly corrupting
its advocates till it ended—in some way—in blood.
These are men, he says, who "doggedly deny the
horror of the system, in the teeth of such a mass of
evidence as was never brought to bear on any other
subject, who would, at this, or any other moment,
gladly invoke America in a war, civil or foreign,
provided that it had for its sole end and object the as-
sertion of their right to perpetuate slavery, and to
whip, and work, and torture slaves, unquestioned by
any human authority, and unassisted by any human
power; who, when they spaak of freedom,
mean freedom to oppress their kind, and to be
savage, merciless, and cruel, and of whom every

man on his own ground, in Republican America, is

a more exacting and a sterner Lira a Ipsq responsible
despot, than the Caliph HAROUN ALRASCHID in his

angry robe of scarlet.
We may again ask our readers whether Mr.
DICKENS was not only describing but prophesying
Strong as his feelings were, and clear as was his
prevision, even he probably at the time hardly
thought of an attempt within twenty years to found
a republic, of which the avowed distinction should
be slavery. Which should proclaim itself for that
reason, as the latest improvement in human go-
vernment, being founded on the great physical
truth of the subordination of the black race
to the white. Which rested, therefore,
on a Divine principle—namely, that the
inferior races were created for the use of the
higher races ; which should reverse the principle of
of the great Apostle, that superior enlightenment
only rendered the superiors debtors to the inferiors,
and which, in language of unheard of blasphemy,
declared by the lips of one of its highest authorities,
its Vice-President—that in making much-abused
slavery the basis of their republic, " the stone which
the builders rejected the same was become the
Head of the corner!!" That slavery, in a word,
was the Divine Messiah of the South. We see the
truth of the charge that they were ready for civil
war on behalf of slavery—but they are ready for
foreign war also. The Democrats (the Conserva-
tives, as the Times terms them of America) have
just held a large public meeting, and at this—and
it is only what they have often said before---it was
openly urged that the North and the South should
reunite, that full protection to slavery should be
the basis of the reunion, and that then both should
ratify their union by turning their joint armies
against Canada and England. Will our great con-
temporary continue to pat on the back such pre-
cious Conservatives as these ?
Mr. DICKENS third class—mutata mutandis—
will find plenty of exemplars also, we strongly sus-
pect, in all the snobbism, aristocratic, and plebeian
of England—it is composed "of all that delicate gen-
tility" which cannot bear a superior and cannot
brook an equal; of that class whose Republicanism
means—l will not tolerate a man above me, and of
those below, none must approach too near—whose
,
pride in a land where voluntary servitude is shunned
as a disgrace, must be ministered to by slaves, and
whose inalienable rights can only have their
growth in negro wrongs." How much of the lean-
ing towards the South apparent in so many of our
aristocracy, and adopted by so many of the middle
classes, is due to the " delicate gentility" which is
jealous of Yankee power and greatness ? That Yan-
kee Republicans should be so strong as to compel
other nations to deal warily with them is itself an
offence ; it does not need the aggrava-
tion of Yankee bluster and vanity to
make it more so. The mingled descendants of the
felonry and the Cavaliers of the STUART period,
are in conflict with the descendants of the Puritans
and Republicans of the same period. Hence, the
" delicate gentility" of England, continue to burke
the recollection of the atrocious crime the former
are fighting for, and in Lord DUNDREA.RY tones
and accents, curse the Yankees, and hope the dear
South will win.

It is time that all this should come to an end.
The North may continue to mortify us in many
things, and not permit us to sustain its cause with-
out qualification. But the South is still that South,
merely skirting the Border States of which filled
the honest soul of a DICKENS with a disgust and
indignation he felt that he dare not conceal. It is
worse, rather than better, than -when he saw it. His
worst predictions are now realised. And shall it
be said that the countrymen of CHARLES DICKENS
turned their backs on the men who are fighting to
limit and extinguish slavery, and gave their coun-
tenance to those who worship it as their Messiah.

That Greece will accept the lonian Islands from
England there can be no doubt. Whether they
will consent to receive King FERDINAND as their
new Sovereign is another question entirely.
Nationalities in these later times are particularly
chary as to anything like dictation upon a point of
such exceeding delicacy in relation to their inde- '
pendence. It was in consequence of the obdurate
non-recognition of this " point of honour," as it
may justly be called, in respeot to France, the abso-
lute non-recognition of this on the part of the Con-
tinental Powers, that resulted, as we all know, in
Revolution after Revolution. Because the elder
branch of the House of Bourbon was twice thrust
back upon the throne of France by the banded
armies of the Allied Sovereigns—France would
have none of it. Louis XVIII. was fairly
frightened away by a Charivari in the March of
1815—and had but time to gather up his Horace,
to wipe his unctuous lips after his last banquet, and
to scramble, as quickly as his unweildy frame would
let him, into his State travelling carriage before
the noise of NAPOLEON'S approach was heralded by
the Emperor's avant courriers. CHARLES X. dis-
appeared with something more like a show of dig-
nity than his brother the fat epicurean. The pear
was particularly ripe then, however, for the fina
disappearance of the elder branch of that ancient
r.nhaauesoeawtouvefaeKrin:ngs—and it was only by a clever stock-
jobbing
j device that the younger branch was insi-
toorththeevacan t
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in pieces and burnto
associated with th
throne, it will seat. As a signal evidence,
remembered,
Throneeied of France—that
repudiation of the race altogether
fitnhethe streets of Paris in 1848,
, was publicly broken
moment of this very throne of
during the height
the vacancy at this
an evidence as could well
February Revolution. Nay,
of Greece is as signal
have been afforded of the utter futility of forcing
any Prince, no matter whom, upon the acceptance