The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-15 00:00:00

15, 1862„

never be concord between them and freedom. Tho
conflict between slave and free institutions, existing
in the same country, must and will be bitter and
irrepressible. In America they have at last come
face to face with swords drawn, and one or the other
must die."

Mr. Dow believes that the war is to recommence
with fresh vigour under some bolder leader; he
holds that the nation will bear its losses and suffer-
ings joyfully as the " avenue through which
4,000,000 of down-trodden slaves are to march from
their 'prison-house into the sunshine of personal
civil and religious liberty." Slaves are already, he
says, ceasing in Louisiana to be a merchantable
article—in New Orleans and Louisiana, where they
were dearest, masters are actually turning them
off, and even the New Orleans papers are beginning
to discuss the greater cheapness of free labour.
Were all Northern leaders like the General Dow,
we might well hearken to his closing request—

" Let English friends, who are truly anti-slavery
and friendly to our country, but who have feared
the war would not issue in benefit to the poor
slave, have patience with us. The disenthralment
of an entire race, the overthrow of the social condi-
tion of a great people, the destruction of the entire
industrial system of eleven millions of men, in a
territory ten times larger than Great Britain, is a
work so mighty that our friends may have pa-
tience with us if we do not accomplish it in a year.
This work, mighty and glorious, will certainly be
accomplished by this war; and our joy will be so
great that our losses and bitter experiences in it
will be regarded as cheap for so wonderful a
result.

Again we would urge upon the attention of Mr.
PARTRIDGE the advisability of his allaying, or at
any rate endeavouring to allay, in some measure
the reviving anxieties felt here in England by the
friends of GARIBALDI in regard to the Hero's suf
ferings. The Professor can easily do this. He has
seen GARIBALDI repeatedly since he was wounded
at Aspromonte and imprisoned in Varignano. He
has carefully examined, and this more than once,
the most setions of the illustrious patient's wounds.
He has had leisure since then, since his return to
this country upon the completion of his autumnal
excursion to Speazia, to review dispassionately the
opinion he arrived at in regard to the nature, the
extent, and the condition of the wound upon the
ankle. Professor Partridge can at any rate say
now deliberately whether his own firm opinion still
is that there is really no bullet lodged in the ankle
requiring extraction. It is almost incumbent
upon him, as the one professionally engaged
by England to administer relief, if not to GARI-
BALDI himself upon his bed of suffering, at least to
the minds of the friends of GARIBALDI here in this
country by dissipating all doubt as to the actual
extent and the probable duration of the hero's
malady. We are induced to revert to this subject
again to-day, and once more to urge upon Professor
PARTRIDGE the need there is for his again break-
ing silence, no matter how briefly, either to confirm
as to modify the opinions he has already expressed
—because day by day we see the rumours becoming
more alarming as to tbo condition of GARIBALDI.
This afternoon, for example, the latest tidings tell
us that the General is much worse—that the impres-
sion is growing stronger there that the rifle ball
is still there in the shattered ankle—and (worst
of all) that there has been a consultation, and
at the close of it, issuing of a bulletin signed by
seven Italian Doctors ! All this may be error, we
grant. All this may be, as we sincerely hope, a
monstrous exaggeration. Still, after the expendi-
ture of several hundreds of pounds in sending a
surgeon of the eminence of Mr. PARTRIDGE all the
way to Spezzia to see GARIBALDI, and to judge
exactly how ho is—England ought not now to be
left in such complete uncertainty as to the present
condition of the sufferer.