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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17, 1862.

Later news is again worse news for the Federals.
Worse in the military sense, for we are not sure
that the present humiliation of the North may not,
if anything can, prove its salvation. So far as can
be gathered from the telegrams of a day or two
later, the Confederates seem to be roaming at plea-
sure along the Southern bank of the Potomac, and
to be not unlikely to enter Maryland and take
Washington, if they please, in flank. It is pro-
bably quite in their power to compel Mr. LINCOLN
and his Cabinet to follow the example of the Go-
vernment of Kentucky, and to deport themselves,
instead of deporting negroes, to a safer place. We
find the dreaded STONEWALL JACKSON at Lees-
burg, and threatening Harper's Ferry, the well-
known passages of the Potomac to the west of
Washington ; while the Federals have evacuated
Acquia Creek on the south-east—doubtless to
concentrate themselves round Washington and
to enjoy the security of the earthworks thrown
up there during last Autumn and the Spring.
Whether, however, JEFFERSON DAVIS will make an
attempt on Washington, even if he be able, may
well be doubted. He would find Maryland, in
which the district of Columbia and Washington
are, ready enough to rise and aid him, for that
State is kept loyal by force only. But would he think
it prudent to drive the North to desperation ? That
would be the almost certain effect of capturing the
capital; the North would then have, in its turn,
the formidable element in its favour, of being put
on its defence, and, with its great resources and
population, brought to bay at home, it would almost
certainly prove, in turn, victor. Half the power of
the South has been derived from the fact of its
fighting for and on its own soil. Reverse the con-
ditions, and who can tell the difference it would
make.

But most to be noted is the effect, so far as we are
permitted to know it, of the late reverses on the
North. The symptoms are very grave of total dis-
trust of the Administration, who, it must be con-
fessed, have given ground enough for it. The
opinions of newspapers, when the Press is at the
mercy of a Secretary of State, "That unless the
Cabinet be reinforced with new vigour and ability
the Union cause will be overthrown,' must go for
something, since nothing but the certainty of pub-
lic opinion concurring with such an opinion of the
journalist,
would induce him to hazard the suppres-
sion of his paper. But we have not only the
i
journalsts—every one is arming;
opinions ofthe
Government clerks at Washington have commenced
drilling, the bayonet being likely to be wanted more
than the pen. The Governor of Pennsylvania calls
on the State to form volunteer organisations; the
New York War Committee proposes to raise two
armies of its own of fifty thousand men each, to
put them under the command respec-
tively of Generals MITCHELL and FREMONT,
or any authority the Federal Government will
accept. A step which appears to imply at once the
determination of the people and their dissatisfac-
tion with their leaders. At the same time General
HALLECK refuses to call out the New York City
Militia, alleging former shirking of duty; which,
of course, the officers indignantly deny. It would
not seem to be the time for quarrelling about old
offences, but rather an occasion to condone all by
common and renewed exertions.

But the meeting of the Governors of four States
—Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and
surely, a grave significance.
Rhode Island—has,
What can the four State Presidents meet for, unless
they and•their States begin to think that a contest
pro anis et Joel's is approaching, and that the PEE-
BIDENT of all the States, or of the people, is not
equal to the occasion. It can hardly be simply to
apprc,ve and
back up a policy and Administration
whicl has proved
such an utter failure—which has
resulted only in spendi ug money, and sacrificing life

to end in a second siege of Washington by the enemy. -
The four States do not equal by one -fourth the
population of the Empire State, but they are
States whose inhabitants are men of mettle, and
each sends as many senators to Congress as Mr. LIN-
COLN'S own great State. We have no information
yet of the result of their deliberations, but it is ob-
vioas that the States are beginning to feel it neces-
sary to act for themselves. These four States are
all of them, we believe, strongly in favour of the
emancipation policy. Mr. LINCOLN has done a few
things in that direction to please them, and in ac-
cordance with his understood personal inclinations;
but on the whole he has deferred to Kentucky and
the Border States. lie always shrank from offend-
ing Kentucky. His reward is that the Confede-
rates have nearly driven out of it the Government
favourable to the Union.
It is plain that the pro-slavery policy of the
PRESIDENT has thus far utterly failed. It was a
1 policy forced on him by the public feeling of the
North, and it has brought its reward in the shape
lof a slaveholders' army once more at the gates
of Washington. But why is it there? Solely be-
cause slaves do the masters' work at home, and
allow every adult Southerner to be a soldier if he

Ikea. The mean whites—a race of idle vagabonds

—have no better sport than to fight for good pay,
and the slaveholders have no greater pleasure than
in finding them a job far away from their estates.
The opposite policy it may be now too late to try.
The slaves have had too plain proof that the North
is not composed of Abolitionists, to be much con-
cerned which shall conquer. It might be difficult
now to get into the Southern States the knowledge
of any change of Northern sentiment, should such
change occur. But even more difficult would it
be to gain the confidence of the negroes, There
is not, in the North, the basis for it. A really
Liberal paper in America writes thus on the fifth
of August—we beg our readers to read the extract
carefully :

" While we observe with pleasure the daily increasing
anti-slavery sentiment of the North, it is painful to wit-
ness, also, the intense negro hate which gleams forth in

the midst of threats of abolition. At the great Cincinnati
meeting, where 50,000 men were assembled, Gen. Lew.
Wallace declared that slavery was a great element of
strength to the South, as we were now finding out to our
eost, and insisted on its overthrow. 'lf slavery is the basis
of this rebellion,' said he, why in God's name do we not
knock away the base from under it ?' And yet he talks of
the negro in language fit only for a pirate.
" I heartily despise the negro race. I can't help it. I
never see a negro pass me in the street without thinking,
There stalks the cause of all this trouble. I never will per-
mit him to be placed on equality with white men ; it
never shall be done ; I will fight myself, if it ever
comes to that. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) . . . In
times of great excitement like the present, a simple preju-
dice may do an immense amount of evil. A greased car-
tridge produced the Sepoy rebellion. But notwithstanding
all these prejudices that have been instilled into the minds
of some of our boys, when our troops are worn out with

fighting against su2erior forces, when outnumbered and cut
to pieces, with every hopb gone, and nothing but destruction
staring them in the face, then, I say, if white men should
hear the sweet music of the rifle, even though in nigger
hands, they would like it amazingly, and be wonderfully
glad of it. Now, then, I have done with the nigger, and I
am heartily glad of it—thoroughly glad of it, I assure you.' "

This speech tells the whole story of the failure of
the North. It "heartily despises the negro race."
It boasts of it. Rather than be outnumbered,
cut to pieces, and destroyed, it would put rifles
into negro hands, till then, like Mr. LINCOLN, it
would strip the Union uniform from off their
backs. How can the slaves rise for a negro-

hating people—why should they not rather work

on for masters who must at least take some care
of ouch costly " cattle." England has warned the
North often enough of the consequences of fight-
ing for Empire instead of fighting for Freedom.
The North seems now likely to find our warnings
facts.

It is exact:y what we have been dreading.
GARIBALDI is now acknowledged from Tarin to
be " worse" in health instead of better. The one
ominous line in the telegram to-day, announcing
this to be the fact, according to the latest informa-
tion from the Gulf of Spezzia, will only be, to a
vast number, we believe, no less than it has been
to ourselves, the fulfilment of a most melancholy
anticipation. Cannot something more be done—
than has already been done—towards the practi-
cal evidencing of the sympathy of England in
regard to the Hero now stretched upon his couch
of suffering at Varignano ? A meeting is talked
of as in preparation here in London—a Monster
Meeting let us hope it may be—a meeting as
numerous as it is certain to be enthusiastic. If
promptly convened, at some suitable rendezvous, at
the London Tavern, or, better still, at the Guild-
hall, we are perfectly satisfied that even now, at
this holiday time of the year, when the metropolis
is tolerably well emptied of the Upper Ten Thou-
sand, and of many thousands, also, of the more
well•to-do representatives of The Million, we are
perfectly well satisfied that even now, in the middle
of September, that an immense gathering of influ-
ential people and their supporters might be col-
lected at a very short notice, indeed, upon the
simple announcement that Englishmen were in-
vited to express their sympathy for General
GARIBALDI. Newcastle—Gateshead—Sunderland
—have recently one after another been setting us
Londoners an example in this matter; and an
example it is that to-day's Telegram reminds us
we ought certainly to follow up now as promptly
as may in any way be practicable.
Before Professor PARTRIDGE can reach his desti-
nation, this alarming intimation—an intimation
doubly alarming seeing that it comes to us by way
of Turin—acquaints us with the unwelcome truth
that GARIBALDI'S health shows no improvement
whatever. On the contrary, that it is clearly,
unmistakeably, undeniably worse. The Patient
being at the same time under the malign
influence of a variety of very obvious
disadvantages. GARIBALDI, for one thing, is
no longer a young man. He is already some years
past the meridian of life. He is getting within
view of old age. The grey streaks are gleaming in
among his hair every month more perceptibly—his
hair itself thinning fast, and his once vigorous and
limber, if not athletic, frame becoming appreciably
every day
more and more weak and attenuated.
His generous affections, his noble ambition, his
feelings
always intense, his mind and heart always
sensitive, even in the calmness of the one and the
strength of the other, with the sensitiveness of a
exquisite susceptibility—affections,
profound and
[ ambition, feelings, mind, heart, they have all
recently undergone a
very terrible, and all
but overwhelming shock.
It is more than
a rifle ball that has torn the flesh and
shattered the bones and tortured
the nerves of
GARIBALDI. Hceret lateri lethalia ar undbo
y—
this
hn
ids
all the more bitter is the anguish caused
arrow of a Nation's Ingratitude, at any rate of a
King's Ingratitude, winging its Way straight
towards the Hero's Great and Noble Heart, because
of that thought so often before now brooded Over
by others, but never more mournfully, we may be
certain, than in this
signally afflicting instance,
that thought yet—

" . • • keener far to feel,
lie nursed the pinion that impelled the steel."
Borne down by his inner sense of this heinous crime
of the ingratitude of Italy, of the Italian King, of the