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London, England, 1862-07-17 00:00:00

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The total population of tb •Blieee-SAatea it; Talke-
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more than 12,000,W, of yNem -2000, 4.66" f r
African, and 8,000,000 of Europe raoi3i. Duct-
ing from the latter number the people of Maryland,
Missouri, Kentucky, and Western Virginia, there
remain less than 6,000,000 now supporting the war.
After all the losses of the campaign it is clear that
they have now in the field more than 300,000 men.
In addition to the four armies under Beauregard,
Jackson, Kirby, Smith, and at Richmond there
are the forces of Georgia at Savannah, of South
Carolina at Charlestown, of Mississippi at Jackson
and Vicksburg; others in Florida, Alabama, Texas,
Arkansas, and even the Territories and the Indian
reserve. It is difficult to form any computation of
all these without greatly exceeding the number
named. Now, as this force is maintained by a
population only one-fifth of our own, the effort is
what ours would be if we had five times the number,
or an army of a million and a-half in the field.
Viewed in this light and it is the true one,
such an effort is indeed stupendous, and it LECOn"
the more remarkable the closer we examine it.
These armies have been called into existence where
there was not the nucleus of a regiment, a company,
a squadron, a solitary piece of field artillery. And.
men had to be raised in these numbers where there
was no one centre of population; powder had to be
made where there were no mills ; guns to be cast
where there were no foundries ; cartridges to be
made without paper, shoes without leather, clothing
without looms ; all this in a country whose industry
and credit were paralysed, and whose intercourse
with the rest of the world was suddenly shut out.
Depressed by many reverses, reduced from luxury
to the coarsest necessities of life, assailed by ill-
fortune with great floods that caused the life of No.
10 Island and swept away the boom at New Orleans,
looked upon but coldly by those whose aid they
expected, unable to tell what city might not tall
next, and who might not be.roofless, confronted in
the open field by a greater Power, and threatened
by fanaticism with a servile war beneath their feet
—it is amid difficulties such as these that they have
placed great and gallant armies in the field, and ex-
hibit a spirit which suffering and danger only make
more resolute.
What is it that enables a people so small in num-
ber to sustain so great an effort ? There is but one
source of such strength as this that recruits such
armies without bounty or pay,—a sense of right, a
knowledge that their cause is just. The people of
the South are called " rebels ; " it is just because
they are not rebels that they have this strength.
That term misleads many here, still more in the
North, where multitudes of Germans and of Ameri-
cans, credulous of all that accords with interest or
desire, do really believe that they are fighting to
put down rebellion. There are rebels who are en-
gaged in this contest. The people of Western Vir-
ginia have rebelled against the lawful authorities
of their State. They are the only body of rebels;
and, strange to say, they are on the side of the
North.
The Virginians are in arms, not against a Sove-
reign, but to defend the sovereignty of their State.
They obey the orders of the executive and legisla-
tive authorities under whom they were born, and
under whom their fathers lived before the United
States were heard of. To these their primary alle-
giance and loyalty are due. If the State be in re-
bellion, is Mr. Lincoln a monarch to whom it was
subject, or do the delegates it sends to Congress in-
corporate themselves with others into a Sovereign ?
Is it the Union it rebels against ? But a Union is
simply the condition, the co-relation, in which per-
sons or things exist. Northern imagination may
personify it ; but great States cannot be said to
rebel against a personification. The Union is simply
the juxtaposition of certain political powers, and
when these separate the Union is at an end. The
States that have not moved constitute a new Union,
and against this the others may be at war, but they
cannot be in rebellion against a former condition of
affairs which has passed out of existence.
The Southern States are simply doing what they
had full right to do, and they are strong in this
strength. None can disprove the right of secession
from the Federal partnership when its objects, ex-
pressly stated in the preamble to the Constitution,
are no longer attained. Bowie, d friend of Washing-
ton, and an eminent Northern lawyer, although an
ardent lover of the Union, still, in his work on the
Constitution, describes the right of secession as "an
integral element in all our Federal systems." He is
right; it is integral, inherent in every Federal sys-
tem that is based on freewill and the sovereignty
of the people. Those who, by evading the facts and
arguments, attempt to deny the right of secession
all of them admit as unquestioned the " right of
revolution." Call it, then, revolution, and it becomes
a right. But men are not rebels who are doing
what they have a right to do. A revolution over
throws a government and destroys it. To say that
men have a right to do this, but have none to leave
it peaceably, is the same as to say that if two men
live in a house, and one desires to leave it, he had
no right to remove, but he has a right to pull it
down upon the heads of both.
The first partnership of these States broke down
in a few years, the second ends now. A great con-
tinent, large enough for many independent Powers,
is divided by climate and productions into two sec-
tions. Of these, one desires to trade with us, to be
at pease with us, to employ ourshipping, to use our
manufactures, to supply materials that we need.
All this it offers by the voice of its ancient and law-
ful authorities who express the unanimous will of
its people. The other section steps forward to for-
bid this, and says, ~ you shall not use European
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regret that thepartnership
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manufactures, but ours; we have a territory so large
that we cannot people it for a hundred years to
come, but still we
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but it is a source of wealth and happiness to us.
sovereignty It is true we have always asserted the
and independence of our own
States, but we never
intended such assertions to be made
against us. Besides, we are stronger than you, and
we shall answer these old • rights by crushing you
with our greater numbers and power." Such are
the plain facts, and if unaffected
by them we might
have avoided to notice them. But it is our duty
to consider whether the most numerous class of
our working men should
be reduced to pauperism
under such • circumstances as these.
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,OBBERY IN TAE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.--
Yesterday afternoon two deliberate robberies were com-
mitted in that part of the Houses of Parliament devoted to
the sittings of the committees of the Lords, which, together
t ohundreds the
Pu public,
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with the House of Lords, is now openand
attracting during the last few days many
tors. As Mr. Parkes, of the Parliamentary Agency firmof
Dyson, Hall, Parkes, Coates, and Shrubsole, was making
his way through a crowd of crinoline into one of the com-
mittee-rooms, he was relieved of a valuable watch; and a
foreign gentleman in another part of the corridor also be-
came suddenly sensible of the escape of his chronometer.
These robberies, until recently, occurred in the Commons,
but the light-fingered fraternity were effectually scared
away by the presence of vigilant detectives of the A division
in private clothes, and it is probably to their absence in the
_
Lords that the robberies of yesterday are to be attribute.
The omission, however, it may be mentioned, was supplied d
during the day by Superintendent Doran, of the A corps of
the Commons.
metropolis,
THUNDERSTORM.—Yesterdayafternoeon, at four
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o'clock, a violent thunderstorm broke over
nanstones
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accompanied by exceedingly heavy Tin' e down with
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oilCm much flooded. The
great fury. The lower levels were
ted nearly an hour. The early
hot, but with brilliant
storm and heavy rainfall lasted
spunartshoifnteh day had been exceedingly
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apparently a dead letter, affords a legis-
lative. Food, although aPP
The Act for the Prevention of the Adulteration
.ts to pursue quietly and conscientiously
analytical chemists lative stimulus to thiehesafrl
their research operationsauutarydulet,
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of edible articles.
metropolitan vendors
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these
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A gratifying
f the working of intelligent men has just
example 0
been afforded by the presentation of a whole batch of ana-
rtificates, extending over some five years, relative
to the thorough wholesomeness of the articles sold by the
provision merchant, Mr. Osborne, of Ludgate-hill, whose
it would
goods,
without his knowledge, and have formed the highest
standard of comparison at the various lectures upon food at
the Society of Arts and other institutions. This, indeed,
is a recognition that a citizen may well be proud of, and
long may this vendor of pure food enjoy the high reputa-
tion ho so
justly merits. The system of such rewards is
fraught with great good, and in its inauguration, are the
,elements of the highest usefuluese.—Globe.