The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-09 00:00:00

THE SUN,'. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1862.

us off the world's map by sending five thousand
troops to Canada. lam not one of those who be-
lieve that the Western people and the Western em-
pire can be wiped out of the Western horizon in
three weeks' time, only to leave a grease spot on
the Western ocean. (Laughter and applause.) An
illustration will show its absurdity. How brave
England will laugh to scorn the man who feared the
destruction of these islands, at the landing of five
thousand Frenchmen at Dover ! (Hear.) Or better
still, what could be more ridiculous than England
to have attempted the conquest of Russia by send-
ing only five thousand Englishmen to the Crimea./
(Applause.) My duty compels me to tell year t'ri
confidence that the Americans are not Chinese.
(Laughter.) We have got through with the Fugi-
tive Slave Law Envoys—you will soon have with
you the author of the Negro Catcher act, and the
son of the Now York tallow chandler, and I wish it
were possible for them to bring their negroes with
them to show Exeter Hall how well such men can
manage such labour! (Laughter.) We shall have
no more of Mason and Dixon's line. It will now be
Mason and Slidell's capture. (Hear.) Everything
is on the change. The Pope turns brigand—Kings
die suddenly—Vesuvius belches forth molten iron—
and slaves no longer ran away from their masters,
but masters run away from their slaves. (Applause.)
The gentleman is mistaken about the strength
of our cabinet and our unity. Omitting the two
hundred traitors in Fort Warren and Lafayette,
and Fernando Wood—(laughter)—the North is a
unit acknowledging one chief who combines the
virtue of Washington with the will of Jackson.
Lincoln is every inch a President. Never before
has the American Cabinet possessed such amount of
Puritan honesty, Christian patriotism, and so many
cubic inches of solid brain. (Hear.) No cleverer
man than Chase ever handled the country's finances.
No abler man than Cameron ever filled the War-
office, and you must permit me emphatically to deny
the oft-repeated slander that Seward is hostile to
England. (Applause.) In recent speeches I have
alluded to this industriously circulated slander.
Seward is not a man of war. His temperament is
peace. Clever as a lawyer—clever as a speaker—
clever as a writer—clever as a statesman, he is,
without exception, the cleverest Secretary of State
that America has ever possessed. I have read his
speeches since I was a child—clear, forcible, and
full of life. He can talk diplomacy with Lyons, war
with Palmerston, Latin with Russell, Greek with
Gladstone, or Hebrew with Rothschild. (Laughter.)
His despatches are specimens of patriotism and
eloquence. He never repeats—all his despatches to
European powers are unlike in composition, but the
same in sentiment, and I challenge the speaker who
alluded so severely to our Premier to point me out
one word of hostility to England. (Cheers.) For
many years I have been proud of his friendship, and
when in Europe some little while ago, after some
twenty-five years' absence, I talked with him mrech
about England. I met him in London, and pre-
sented him to Lamartine in Paris, and was much in-
structed by the conversation of the two republican
chiefs. Any one acquainted with the Secretary can
understand the good-natured joke about Canada, to
the Duke of Newcastle. That dinner-table badinage
and a clause in his Astor-house speech in 1860, has
furnished the text for all the libels on his character
—" Let Carolina, let Alabama, let Louisiana, let
any State go out, and you will find Canada and the
Mexican States rushing in to fill the vacancy."
That is the extent of his offending—so far from
being hostile to England, he has always been just
the reverse—(cheers)—and I believe that Mr.
Adams has already received a despatch in advance
of England's demands, highly conciliatory, which
has been held back by the Foreign-office from the
people ! (Applause.) Yes, Mr. Chairman, it is all
up with the South. The last mean thing done by
Davis was to cat himself out of Virginia into Ten-
nessee. (Laughter.) I have often read descriptions
of the wholesale game hunting of some lands—the
sportsman surrounds the woodland for miles and
beats steadily up to the centre—when the rattle or
rifles deal death and destruction on every side.
(Applause.) Such is now the Federal policy. No
better analogy can be found than that of the Bas-
tile prisoner who was placed in an elegant apart-
ment with light, and fruit, and flowers. His punish-
ment seemed a luxury, till one day he imagined
that while the proportions of his apartment were
the same, the room had lessened in size. Amain he
looked, and sure enough there was a change.
Where is the wonderful machinery ? Pale with
doubt—listening with suspense—each day he
noticed the contraction of the walls. Closer and
closer they came—shutting out window after win-
dow—but no hand was seen, no noise heard—all was
as still as death.—His doom was sealed.—An inch
to-day, another to morrow—one grip of the four walls
and all was over ! (Applause.) The man was pressed
to death foot by foot, inch by inch, and he knew not
from whence emanated the secret power that crushed
him. (Cheers,) So is it with this ungodly revolu-
tion. Little by little—step by step—battalion by
battalion—the camp is being surrounded—and an-
other mail may bring the startling news of the
death- knell of treason. They have played all their
trumps in the game of death—while all of ours
remain. Their powder is exhausted—their power
is gone—and the canker of remorse is eating up the
lying, treacherous wretches who ere long will be
willing to pick up the crumbs that fall from the
Federal table, or to rest even for a moment in Abra-
ham's bosom ! (Cheers and laughter.) You compli-
ment me by alluding to my success in foreshadow-
ing events. Again I glance at the western horizon.
This time we must change the map and put new
words into the history of the war. For secession
read rebellion—for Secessionist read Traitor—for
Confederacy read High Treason !—and you will
never again laugh at the mention of Bull Run—for
it will be known in the nation's record as the Pat-
terson Treachery ! (Cheers.) It having been acci-
dentally discovered that South Carolina and Vir-
ginia do not compose the entire United States—
these lecherous old thieves must be swept away—
the two Carolinas must sink into one under the
name of Carolina! Virginia having prostituted
herself is no longer the virgin she once was, and
must make way for the new State of Kanawha!
(Hear.) Her eastern boundary must be added to
the district of Columbia, Maryland, and Dela-
ware. The border States must all bs free—white
men must come in and Yankeefy the soil, and make
the desert blossom like the rose. (Hear.) Florida
and Louisiana must bo reduced to territories—
colonize contrabands in the former if you like—
and let the commerce of the latter come over the
railways and the lakes to New York-finish the
middle link of that great broad guage unk Line
of 1,200 miles that connets the Erie railroad with
the Ohio and Mississippi—the Atlantic and Great
Western—and cut a steamship canal through from
the Illinois River to Lake Michigan, and by these
routes take away the roundabout commerce of New
Orleans to the Empire City—change the term of
President to six years—build monuments to our
heroes who died for the Union—each State and each
city to honour its own dead—let the fortifications at
Washington remain as the inner forts, and build an
outer wall—have more naval schools and West
Point academies—build low, fast, long, heavy Parrot
or Dahlgren gunboats, but no frigates or liners—
open the nation's doors to all the world—have no
more Caucuses and National Conventions. (Hear,
hear.) Remodel the Constitution to meet the nation's
wants—have a school-book prepared to be called
the Union Reader, which will be entirely composed
of patriotic speeches, patriotic songs, patriotic pro-
clamations, and patriotic resolutions, cominemora-
ling this epoch of our history, Put up a large
board in all our school-rooms, lined with black,
giving the names of all the pirate chiefs, so that the
children may daily learn to curse their memory !
(Oh.) Introduce a new form of prayer to be read
in every church, thanking God for saving our na-
tion and preserving our Union. (Cheers.) And have
a great national holiday, to commence on Monday
morning and last till Saturday night—a regular
jubilee of freedom ! (Cheers and laughter.) Pass a
bankrupt law for honest men—the last was executed
for scamps—and let the Treasury notes circulate
among our people, a kind of national bank with-
out any of its disadvantages—and make it
high treason for any man to charge a discount on
Government paper. (Oh!) Cry America for the
Americans—establish American banks in Foreign