The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

difference between the two leaders must be felt as
long as the struggle lasts.
Our Radical friends must not set us down for
Aristocrats if we mention another cause. The
Southern armies have been composed substantially
of gentlemen leading their clients. The " Southern
Chivalry" is by no means altogether a joke. The
leading men there feel themselves to be the de-
scendants of the Cavalier party in England, and
though rural, and almost solitary, life may have
modified externals, they retain that proud belief in

superior blood and birth, which would make them
endure anything rather than humble to the
mechanics of the North. "We are gentlemen—
our opponents but the 'cutest of a race of workies,"
is the sentiment of these men. And strange to say
even the miserable mean whites of the South are
proud of their gentlemen, and willing to serve
under them with almost equal contempt of the
North.

Now, there is but one thing which the North
could match against the Southern gentlemen.
CARLYLE has fully illustrated to us how his hero,
CROMWELL, met the same thing in England. That
mighty military genius, seeing the Royalist suc-
cesses, pointed out at once that the Cavaliers were
csmmanded by gentlemen, and led an army of
their dependents—to meet them, he demanded
an army of God-fearing men, whose zeal for what
they firmly believed to be the cause of heaven,
would m Itch the zeal of Cavaliers for the cause of
honour. In fact, CROMWELL pitted religious en-
thusiasm against gentlemanly honour. We all
know the result. The RUPERT charge had to yield
to the charge of the Ironsides. But wherewith
has the North met the charge of the Southern
chivalry, fighting, too, for the political indepen-
dence of the men they despised ? By the mere
bubbles of the Union—of vast Empire—of manifest

destiny—of model Republicanism—by no one senti-
ment that fires the soul of men. The North might
have had a cry as soul-stirring as that of CROM-

WELL'S. It might have proclaimed the wrath of
Heaven with the infernal curse of slavery, and now

that it had risen in rebellion, have declared the fact
a summons to extirpate the enemy of GOD and man
from their continent. Alas, with an opportunity

such as no chief or cause ought to have overlooked,
the North, through its own base sentiments regard-

ing the negro, was not susceptible of an appeal to
make the war a war of righteousness to the wronged,
and of national greatness at the same time. We
can hardly believe that an army of mere Unionists
will conquer an army of gentlemen and their de-
pendents, fighting for political independence of a
people they despise.
It has been remarked that the war has not called
forth a single eminent man yet in the North, while
in the South three at least—DAVlS, LEE, and
JACKSON—have made themselves historical names.
The Indian mutiny elicited no genius on the side
of the sepoys, while it has immortalised several
names of the conquerors. It is not improbable that
the North, vast as its numbers are, will fail from
the same cause as the mutiny did. Genius and
ability wielding smaller resources will al ways van-
quish mere numbers. The Northern soldiers are
sighing to be led by a LEE or a JACKSON ; the
Southern soldiers boasting that they are led by
them. At what immense odds must two such armies
fight. The Southern soldier rushes on confident
that his wound or even his death is not thrown
away ; the Northern soldier questions whether he
is not exposing himself in vain. The diverse de-
grees of confidence in their leaders are almost
enough to explain the different results in so many
struggles.

Another remarkable view of the Southern case

has been pointed out by a Southern paper—that
their very isolation from the world created by the

blockade, and their being left to their own re-
sources by the nations of Europe, on whose aid
they so confidently calculated at first, has been
almost their salvation. At first no one doubted

that the immense creative power of the North, and
the absence of anything like manufacturing and
mechatical skill in the South, must soon place the
latter, if blockaded, at the mercy of the former. Even
if the South could find men, how could it feed,
clothe, and arm them ? To the astonishment of
Europe this has been done for nearly a year and a
half, and for vast armies too. The men the North
provided them. Its anti•negro policy furnished the
South with black labour, leaving every adult white
free to fight. Its blockade rendered numbers of
white men idle and available for the war. But
where were the arms to come from ? It could
be no great number which could run
the blockade. The answer is in the homely
old proverb which tells us that " necessity

is the mother of invention." Under that stimulus
the South has shown what it can do. The war will
do for it, indeed, what nothing else would do. When
it is over the North will find, to a great extent, its
occupation gone. The South has been compelled to
become its own manufacturer. It will very proba-
bly remain so, and perhaps may be so unwise as to
imitate the North, in preferring bad and clear do-
mestic productions, to the cheap and better ones of

Europe.
When we look at the facts to which we have ad-
verted, when we consider the absence of Union
feeling in the South, the presence of Secession sen-
timents in the North, and the impossibility of sub-
jugating and re-amalgamating a whole nation of
men who have shown such unlooked for resources,
Skill and courage, it seems not too much to conclude
that the grand question of one or two nations is
already decided. The north may yet shed blood
and win battles ; that it can reunite the South with
itself seems now impossible.

One of the worthiest and most esteemed among
the citizens of London has but just now passed
away from amongst us, in the person of Mr.
CHARLES PEARSON, the City Solicitor. Although
Mr. PEARSON had all but completed the allotted
age of man—being in his 09th year when he
breathed his last on Sunday morning, at his resi-
dence in Wandsworth—he was in the midst of so
many good and useful labours (still incomplete when
he died) that we can hardly help regarding his de-
parture as premature. Yet had he done his part
well, and
long, and energetically from first to last,
us at once a public servant and a public benefactor.
Mr. CHARLES PEARSON' was, in one sense, cite of
that not by any means numerous class, known as
the class of men
who are in advance of
their own times. Yet was he also one
of that still smaller number, who being thus in
advance of their times, so far as the early recog-
improvement is con-
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no means degenerate into idle and
crotchetty diy•dreamers; on the contrary, realising
their cherished schemes of changes for the better, by
the practical skill with which they work out their at
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Railway is a
sufficient attestatien in the instance of Mr. CHARLES
PEARSON, the late Solicitor for the City. For of
that extraordinary, and, as it was first of a 1, by
many, deemed extravagant scheme,
Mr. PEARSON
was the
original promoter. He, unfortunately, has
not lived to
witness its actual completion; but,
at any rate,
observing its towards
rapid approximation
he had the satisfaction of
it. His discharge of other onerous and responsible