The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-21 00:00:00

interference in affairs beyond his province. Within
the last three days a new difficulty of the kind has
arisen, which has created quite a storm among the
churches and chapels, that is ominous of future evil
and dissension' whatever may be the fortunes of the
war. The State of North Carolina has never been
very fierce in the cause of Secession, and the Fede-
ral Government, holding possession of its seaboard,
through the agency of General Burnside, has lately
appointed Mr. Edward Stanley, a distinguished
native of the State and a strongly-declared Union-
ist, to be its military Governor. His nomination
was intended to conciliate the North Carolinians,
and has had that effect to a very considerable ex-
tent. Before his appointment Gen. Burnside had
allowed, or at all events had taken no hostile notice
of an attempt made by some Northern abolitionists,
headed by the Rev. Dr. Colyer, of this city, to esta-
blish negro schools at Newbern. It is not anywhere
stated on authority that the schools were very suc-
cessful, or that adult runaway negroes of the mature
age of 50 had made, or were likely to make, much
progress in the alphabet preparatory to a course of
reading of the Scriptures ; but it is certain the esta-
blishment of these schools gave great offence to the
North Carolinians, who, like all the pro-slavery
people, are very touchy and unreasonable on the
question of negro emancipation or negro elevation—
and that the Governor's efforts and persuasion to
induce his secessionist. countrymen to return to
their allegiance, and take the oath of fealty to the
Union, were consequently weakened or rendered
nugatory. The attempt to educate the negroes was
supposed to be instigated by the Federal Govern-
ment ; and as the timid Southern people imagined
that every educated negro would read abolition
tracts and novels, to prepare himself for cutting his
master's throat, the waverers were fast coming to
the conclusion that the chances of a successful rebel-
lion, bad as they seemed, were much brighter than
their fate would be in a war of races, with the North
against them as well as their slaves and the free
blacks. It was at length pointed out to the Governoz
that it was contrary to the laws and tho oonatitutivu
of North Carolina to establish a negro school, and
that any person so offending was liable to fine and
imprisonment as well as to banishment. The Go-
vernor immediately did as was expected of him.
He notified to Dr. Colyer that the school must be
abandoned ; and Dr. Colyer, who is asserted to be
the protege in this instance of Mr. Chase, returned
to New York in high dudgeon to stir up the
churches. A Mr. Helper, brother of the celebrated
Mr. R. H. Helper, whose book on Slavery did al-
most as much as the raid of Sohn Brown into Vir-
ginia to exasperate the South and provoke the
Secession, who had left a subordinate position in
the army to devote himself to the tuition of the
North Carolinian negroes, young and old, hereupon
wrote an indignant and very improper letter to the
Governor, pointing out to him the error of his ways
on the subject of slavery, and asking for an expla-
nation. The Governor replied by ordering him to
leave North Carolina by the first steamer, and Mr.
Helper, preferring his liberty in New York to im-
prisonment for conscience sake in North Carolina,
took his departure within 24 hours. The conse-
quence of these events has been a tempest in the
pulpits and in the abolitionist press of Boston and
New York, as well as an angry feeling in the Cabi-
net. Mr. Study has been called " Scorpion Stanly,',
in parody of Daniel O'Connell, who once attempted
to fasten the same soubrequet upon Lord Derby;
and has furthermore been vilified as a " cruel wretch,"
a " scourge of the most malignant sort," and a
" miserable tool." His closing of the schools in
obedience to the laws of the State that he governs,
and which he has no power or right to abrogate or
alter, has been stigmatized as a malignant outrage,
infamous in itself, a disgrace to the nation, and an
offence to the enlightened conscience of the civilized
world ; and Mr. Lincoln has been peremptorily
called upon to dismiss him forthwith from this office
if he do not desire to share in " the execration which
his name will call down upon itself to the end of
time ;" and other such choice Buncombe. Mr. Stan-
ton has threatened to resign, but unfortunately will
not carry his threat into effect ; and Mr. Lincoln,
though sorely beset, will quietly and coolly sup-
port his Governor, and allow the matter to drop--
though, doubtless, his sympathies are in favour
of negro schools wherever they can be legally esta-
I blished. As there are some thousands of negroes,
both Juvenile and adult, in the State of New York
who have no acquaintance with the letters of the
alphabet, the Rev. Dr. Colyer and Mr. Helper have
a fine field in this city and neighbourhood if they
please to cultivate it; and, as there is no law here
against negro tuition, they will not only incur no
danger, but will entitle themselves to as much gra-
titude from all real philanthropists as if they still
persisted in bestowing their exclusive attentions
upon North Carolina. This little episode in the
history of the war shows the difficulties which the
slavery question may be expected to create in the
re-established Union unless the Abolition party
should in the meantime learn to be content with
their own liberty, without forcing their ideas upon
the South, that repudiates, detests, and is afraid of
them. This, however, is not probable, and the
Re-Union will be as much agitated as the Union
was with the interminable question of negro slavery,
the curse of this Republic, that will neither abolish
it nor endure it.

But although Messrs. Stanton, Chase, and Sum-
ner have not been, and are not likely to be, success-
ful in the Carolinas or any other part of the South,
they have been so far successful in Washington as
to poocure the passage of a bill through both Houses
of Congress for the recognition of the black Repub-
lics of Hayti and Liberia. It is understood, how-
ever, that these Governments are to send white
ambassadors to Washington, under the penalty of
social ban and excommunication.

Mr. Chase has to-day authorised the publication
of a statement of the particulars of the National
Debt up to the 29th of May last. From this docu-
ment it appears that the whole liabilities of the
State only amounted to 491,448,984 dols., or a little
more than £98,000,000 sterling. But this reckon-
ing will not deceive financiers either in the Old
World or in the Nov. This sum, largo as it is,
includes the loans sanctioned by Congress since
1842, the Treasury Notes, the Certificates of
Indebtedness, the United States' Notes, and the
bonds of various kinds sanctioned by the same
authority; but does not include the war bounties of
100 dole. each for 700,000 men, to be paid at the
conclusion of the war ; or the liabilities outstanding
against the Government and. daily accruing for
iron-clad and other vessels, and military and naval
expenses of various kinds, amounting at the veiy
lowest-estimate to 150,000,000 dole., or 1:30,000,0n0
sterling; or any portion of the sums to be paid for
the manumission of slaves in the district of Colum-
bia, or in any of the Slave States that have seen in-
vited to take the initiative in emancipation at the
expense of the Federal Government, and scores of
other items that would figure in the account, did it
suit the present purpose of Mr. Chase to make a
cleau confession. But paper money is superabun-
dant. Capital can find no outlet in remunerative
trade. tau,
I,ers and bill-discounters are all but idle
for want of real
commercial paper to trade in, and
everybody that has
any funds at his disposal jobs
on the Stock Exchange .
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are not without
have had longappre-
hensions touching prospective paper expansion. If,
experienceth a that,
both the general Government and the State banks
go on with expansion of the circulating medium,
there must inevitably be a speculative enhance.
runt of prices, to be followed by a crash." But
Wall-street is not in the humour to listen. " Eng.-
lind has a big debt, and is none the worse for it !
We are bigger 'han England—let us have a bigger
debt, and the Stock Exchange will be a still more
flourishing institution than it is now !" Thus they
argue—end, strange to say, everybody seems to be
satisfied with the prospect.

PAINTING.—" She isn't all that faney painted
her!" bitterly exclaimed a rejected lover; "and, worse than
that, she isn't all that she paints herself."