The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-23 00:00:00

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urge the President to make it a consideration okre.. A s--
storation. The new Constitution which outh
Carolina has agreed upon declares that the " quali-
fications for suffrage are the same as before." And
here is a clause which Mr. Bright and his friends
might think over—" The viva voce vote is substi-
tuted in the General Assembly for the suffrage by
ballot."

The whole of the States lately in arms are dis-
cussing the opportunities for investments of money.
The Tennessee newspapers point out the special ad-
vantages which that State offers for wool raising.
The Savannah. Herald wants the capitalists of Georgia
to give their time and attention to the cultivation of
tea. The Virginia papers urge the landowners to
sell a portion of their property in order to enable
them to cultivate the remainder, and the Richmond
Times give us an idea of the heartiness with which
the Southern people generally are setting to work
to restore their broken fortunes :--
. " There now seems to be scarcely a lot in Richmond
where workmen are not swarming like bees, digging new
cellars, cleaning bricks, removing rubbish, laying founda-
' Lions, running up walls, doing the woodwork, roofing, lath-
ing and plastering, and completing the work of the more
advanced buildings, which it is now evident will be larger
than any which were destroyed by fire. Iron, brown stone,
marble, and granite will enter largely into the adornment
of many
this nyof tdhoeespubnlioct
lookstore liskaned
the
ereuhtotuer ruinse.'' most of
us have believed fell upon the South, and in con-
firmation of all that I have stated on the subject I
will quote a part of an article from the New York
organ of the Southern party, the Daily News of the
9th inst. :
u We have heard of cases where this semblance of desti-
tution was instrumental in protecting many a worthy
family in convenient means of subsistence. We have heard
of other cases where this prudent assumption of indigence
has enabled those who assumed it to retain wealth enough
to defy the pressure of arbitrarypower.—ln the first throes
of disaster and its attendant distresses the apprehensions of
the South begot an extreme caution in this respect. In the
first flush of triumph the exactions and orders of the Fede-
ral military district authorities gave confirmation to the
caution and justified the discretion. It is no reprehensible
deception which seeks to retain what is rightfully one's own
from the grasp of a despoiler, who seeks to seize it on un-
justifiable pretences. The Government has at length put
salutary checks on its civil and military agents, and the
many in the South who hoarded up something for the
stormy days are to longer afraid to bring the treasure forth.
We are not, then, surprised to hear of silver and gold in
most unexpected quantities making an appearance in
Southern cities. Even bullion, to no inconsiderable amount,
is daily coming to light in the hands of its legitimate and
reassured o .vners. Plate and articles of vertu, which, by the
contrivances we have suggested, escaped the rapacity of
those dressed in a little brief authority, are constantly pass-
ing into the market, converted into commodities for the
revivification of trade. The changed condition of military
rule is thus, and for the reasons indicated, already bearing
promising fruit, and the poverty of the South is gradually
showing itself to be comparative, not positive."

This is Southern testimony, let it be remembered.
So many theories about this war are gradually fall-
ing to the ground that the only two facts we can be
quite sure of to-day are that the loss of life in the
war was immense, and that the finances of the
country are in a condition which gives uneasiness to
well informed persons. On the other hand, the bulk
of the people, not being well informed on financial
subjects, the second of these two facts causes no
alarm ; and thus the country passes from four years
of war into peace literally as if nothing had happened
beyond what I hear many speak of as " a little
family quarrel."
At such a time as this the indiscretion of a single
officer may provoke great mischief, and Major-Gen.
R. Woods appears to be anxious to make the expe-
riment how much fresh ill feeling it is possible to
create in Alabama. The bishop of that State issued
a pastoral to his clergy, dated June 20, 1865, enjoin-
ing them not to use the prayer for the President
and civil authorities while the State remained under
military rule, for, as the bishop wrote, " the prayer
is altogether inappropriate and inapplicable to the
present condition of things, when no civil authority
exists in the exercise of its functions." General
Woods took exactly three months to think over this
little outpouring of ecclesiastical wrath, and then
issued an order, dated the 20th of September last,
suspending the bishop and all the Protestant Epis-
copal clergy of Alabama from the exercise of their
functions, forbidding them to perform Divine service
or to preach, and closing all their places of worship.
If the Government was about to begin a religious
crusade in this spirit we might despair of seeing
good feeling between North and South restored ;
but it• cannot but be annoyed at the senseless offi-
ciousness of a very foolish man, who deserves to be
instantly removed. Whether Gen. Thomas, the
Commander of the Tennessee military district, or
Gen. Woods first hit upon this method of bringing
the clergy to subjection, or whether it required both
their " minds" to produce their brutum fulnzen is
of little consequence ; but it is of consequence
that the responsible person should be taught a
lesson which will prevent him repeating his folly.
The bishop's order may not have been a wise one,
but if every silly man who happened to be a general
had the authority to command an entire diocess to
say certain prayers and leave others unsaid, the re-
lation of the Church to the State would soon cease
to be so friendly as it has been in the past. The irri-
tation caused by this order in the North is extreme;
a more unjustifiable and lawless act was never com-
mitted during the whole war, and it is utterly with-
out excuse now in a time of profound peace. The
President's policy would have broken down long ago
if all those appointed to- carry it out had been of
General Thomas's or General Wood's capacity.
Senator Wilson, a leading member of the Repub-
lican party, addressed a public meeting last evening
at Yonkers, in this State, and declared himself in
favour of nominating Mr. Johnson for re-election.
Thus, the bidding for the President becomes more
animated every day. Mr. Wilson also said he was
willing to assent to the following proposals with
regard to negro suffrage : _ _ _

" That coloured soldiers who had fought for the country
should have the right of suffrage ; that all coloured men
who could read and write should exercise the right to vote;
that all coloured men who owned property on which they
paid taxes, and all coloured men who were members of a
church should have the suffrage extended to them."
This is the last liberal speech which has yet been
made on the part of the Conservative section of the
Republican party.
The news from England which we received this
morning of the rise in American securities is held
to be an evidence of the improved feeling on your
side towards this country, and it gives grat satis-
faction. The Times' articles upon the Shenandoah
and the policy of President Johnson, reprinted m
some of to-day's papers, increase this satisfaction,
and the popular prejudice against England, on ac-
count of the part she was SU
during the late war, will soon disappear before these
tokens of friendly feeling. opsed to have taken
The Fenians are much disconcerted at the seizure
of their arms and treasure in England and Ireland,
and are begging hard for more money. It is con-
sidered that the English government has, by its
timely vigour, given the organisation its deathblow.

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