The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-01 00:00:00

to the North, that of laying its hand on the guilty

cause of Southern rebellion.

For the present probably the North will have so
much to do in attending to its elections that it will
half forget military matters. If this result in leav-
ing the generals more unfettered, so much the
better; but there will probably be danger of the
cabinet also neglecting its war duties in attention to
elections. Whether this at all accounts for WeLEL-
LAN'S complaining that he is unable to advance be-
cause his troops are " in want of shoes and other
necessaries," we cannot tell. We only note the
concurrence of the two things, and suggest that the
concurrence is probably not fortuitous. Perhaps
the South will not, however, permit this inactivity.

pEE and STONEWALL JACKSON may think it good
policy to be active militarily, while the North is
busy politically. Or, they may take just the other
view, and think it wiser not to do anything
which should irritate the North into a
unanimous support of the PRESIDENT'S policy. We
shall not know yet for some weeks how this great
political battle, on which Bo much of the conduct of
the war hinges, will be decided. And with such
an impulsive and versatile people, to hazard any
opinion on the result would be absurd. How nearly
parties are balanced may be seen in the statement
that even in Pennsylvania, where the South has re-
cently taken such liberties with public property,
although many counties have voted, the result is yet
uncertain.

Our readers will see that the hotly Protectionist
member for West Norfolk has been to visit the
Marshland deluge, and at an agricultural meeting
near Lynn let forth a deluge of his oratory on the
assembled farmers,:respecting America,North,South,
slavery, abolition, but above all, Democracy. It is
amusing to see the Protectionist telling his audience,
incapable of contradicting him, that abolition of
slavery in the West Indies deteriorated the condi-
tion of the slave ! Was there no one to set against
his ignorance the knowledge of the Governor of
Jamaica, who in a recent despatch tells us that as
regards the improvement of the negro, emancipa-
tion has been a complete success, beyond all that
its most ardent advocates could have expected ?
The same genius imforms that we abolished protec-
tion on sugar, and equalised the duties that we
might get the advantage of slave grown sugar.
Does he not know that we found it impossible to
exclude slave grown sugar ? that if we would not
take it direct, it came to us indirectly, and that its
origin could not be proved. It was the abolition of the
protection which galled Mr. BENTINCK and the
glorious fifty,—those immortalised as the cannon
balls which could be neither forged, nor melted, nor
even used to mend roads. The South, Mr. BEN-

TINCK says, are fighting for liberty. Indeed !

Then it must be the liberty to flog, work, buy, sell,
and breed for sale, four millions of their fellow-
creatures at their absolute will and pleasure. The
North, it is too true, has not yet been fighting
against slavery, but it is equally true that the
South is fighting for:the power to treat negroes like
cattle, and for nothing else. Had there been no
slavery the " sectional" election could never have
taken place. Had there been no slavery the oligarchy
who were beaten at the ballot-box would not
have existed. Mr. BENTINCK ought to know well
that oligarchy, not democracy, is responsible for this
war. The slaveholders are the Tories of America.
The mean whites are their serfs, while the blacks
are their slaves_ We strongly suspect that Mr.
BENTINCK, Mr. BERESFORD HOPE, and all their
Tory friends, are quite aware of this ; and what
they really desire is to recognise the Toryism of
America, black as its cause is, as the victors over
democratic freedom.