The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-21 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING.
The Asia has arrived, with advices from Now
York to the 9th, and specie to the amount of
1,000,625 dollars, and 2201. English silver.
In the Senate, on the 9th, the Committee on Ter-
ritories reported the house bill for the admission
of Kansas, with an amendment striking out the
preamble and all after the enacting clause, and sub-
stituting therefore the Slave State Kansas Bill, re-
cently passed by the Senate. After some little op-
position, the amendment was adopted. The House
took up the bills providing for the improvement
of the mouth of the Mississippi, of St. Mary's
River, and St. Clare Flats, which passed the
Senate on Tuesday over the veto of the President.
At an early stage of the proceedings the previous
question was moved, and tho Mississippi Bill
passed by a vote of 143 to 55. The other
bills were afterwards passed by votes equally de-
cisive.

Colonel Fremont accepts the nomination for the
Presidency in the following letter :
"Gentlemen—You call me to a high responsibility I.y
placing me in the van of a great movement ot the people of
the United States, who, withou t regard to past difference 1,
are uniting in a common effort to bring back the action
of the Federal Government to the principles of Wash-
ington and Jefferson. Comprehending the magnitude
of the trust which they have declared themselves wil-
ling to place in my hands, and deeply sensible of the
honour which their unreserved confidence in this threat-
ening position of the public affairs implies, I feel that
I eanuot better respond than by a sincere declaration
that, in the event of my election to the Presidency,
I should enter upon the execution of its duties with
a single-hearted determination to promote the good
of the old country, and to direct solely to this end
all the power of the Government, irrespective of party
issues and regardless of sectional strifes. The declara-
tion of niinciples embodied in the resolutions of your
Convention expresses the sentiments in whicli I have
been educated, and which have been ripened into con-
viction by personal observation and experience.
With this declaration and avowal I think it neces-
sary to revert to only two of the subjects embraced in
these resolutions, and to those only, because events
have surroune.ed them w;th grave and critical circum-
stances, and given them especial importance.
concur in the views of the Convention, deprecating
the foreign policy t 3 which it adverts. The assump-
tion that we have the right to take from another na-
tion its domains because we want them is an aban-
doum2nt of the honest character which our country
has acquired ; to provoke hostilities by unjust as-
sumptions would be to sacrifice the peace and cha-
racter of the country, when all its interests might
be more certainly secured, and its objects attained
by just and healing counsels, involving no lose of
reputation. International embarrassments. are !mainly
the results of a secret diplomacy, winch aims to

keep from the knowledge of the people the opera
tions of the Government. This system is inconsistent
with the character of our institutions, and is itself yield-
ing gradually to a more enlightened public opinion and
to the power of a free press, which, by its broad dissemi-
nation of political intelligence, secures in advance to the
side of justice the judgment of the civilised world. An
honest, firm, and open policy in our foreign relations
would command the united support of the nation,
whose deliberate opinions it would necessarily reflect.
Nothing is clearer in the history of our institutions than
the design of the nation in asserting its own indepen-
dence and freedom, to avoid giving countenance to the ex-
tension of slavery. The influence of the small but com-
pact and powerful class of men interested in slavery, who
command one section of the country, and wield a vast
political control as a consequence in the other, is now di-
rected to turn back this impulse of the revolution and re-
verse its principles. The extension of slavery across the
continent is the object of the power which now rules the
Government, and trom this spirit has sprung those kindle 1
wrongs in Kansas so truly portrayed in one of your resolu
tions, which prove that the elements of the most arbi-
trary Governments have not been vanquished by the
just theory of our own. It would be out of place here to
pledge myself to any particular policy that has been sug-
gested to terminate the sectional controversy engendered
by political animosities, operating on a powerful class
banded together by a common interest. A practical re-
medy is the admission of Kansas into the Union as a free
State. The South should, in my judgment earnestly desire
such consummation. It would indicate its good faith, it
would correct the mistake of the repeal, and the North,
having practically the benefit of the agreement between
the two sections, would be satisfied and good feeling be
restored. The measure is perfectly consistent with the
honour of the South and vital to its interests. That
fatal act which gave birth to this purely sectional strife,
originating in the scheme to take from free labour the
country secured to it by a solemn covenant, cannot be
too soon disarmed of its pernicious force. The only
genial region of the middle latitudes loft to the emi-
grants of the Northern States for homes cannot be con-
quered from the free labourers, who have long con-
sidered it as set apart for them in our inheritance,
without provoking a desperate struggle. Whatever
may be the persistence of the particular class, which
seems ready to harazd everything for the success
of the unjust scheme it has partially effected, I
firmly believe that the great part of the nation which
throbs with patriotism of the free men of both sections
will have power to overcome it. They will look to the
rights secured to them by the constitution of the Union
as their best safeguard from the oppression of the class
which, by a monopoly of the soil and of save labour to
till it, might in time reduce them to the extremity of
labouring upon the same terms as the slaves. The
great body of non-slaveholding free men, including
those of the South, upon wose welfare slavery is
an oppression, will discover that the power of the
general Government over the public lands may be be-
neficially exerted to advance their interests and secure
their independence. Knowing this, their suffrages will not
be wanting to maintain that authority in the Union a hick
is absolutely essential to the maintenances of their own li-
berties', and which has more than once indicated the
purpose of disposing of the public lands in such
a way as would make every settler upon them a
freeholder. If the people entrust to the Adminis-
tration of the Government, the laws of Congress
in relation to the territories wiil be faithfully exe-
cuted ; all its authority will be exerted in aid of the
national will to re-establish the peace of the country on
the just principles which have heretofore received the
sanctfon of the Federal Governments of the States, and
of the people of both sections. Such a policy would leave
no element to that sectional party which seeks its ag-
grandizement by appropriating the new territories to
capital in the form of slavery, but would inevitably result
in the triumph of free labour, the natural capital which
coestitut-is the real wealth of this great country,and cre-
ates that intelligent power in the masses alone to be res-
tml on as the bulwark of free institueions. Trusting that
I have a heart capable of comprehending our whole
country with its varied interests, and confident that pa-
triotism exists in all parts of the Union. I accept the
nomination of your Convention, in the hope that I may
be enabled to serve usefully its cause, which I consider
the cause of constitutional freedom.
" Very respectfully your obedient servant,
"New-York, July 8, 1356."

"J. C. FREMONT.

Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina, has been sen-
tenced to pay a fine of 300 dollars for the assault
on Mr. Sumner.
The sales of cotton on the Bth were confined to
about 500 bales. Flour and wheat were firm.

Ex-President Vau Buren has written a long let-
tor in support of Mr. Buchanan, which it was
supposed would influence the election.
The New York papers express great satisfaction
at the settlement of the Enlistment Question.
They say that Englaud was better prepared for
war than America. _ _ _

The Kovstan (Canada) Whig states that the feud
existing between the two bodies of Orangemen in
Canada—a feud that has long been a reproach to
the Protestant faith—exists no longer. The two
Grand Lodges met recently, under their respective
Grand Masters, and came to an amicable arrange-
ment.

A large meeting was held at the Merchants' Ex-
change, Philadelphia, to reciprocate the pacific
feelings manifested towards the United States in
England.

The yellow fever is raging in Cuba, and is fatal
to strangers.

The dates from the city of Mexico are to the
19th, and from Vera Cruz to the 22d.

A letter from Kiel, of the 15th, says The
trial for high treason against M. Scheele, the di-
recting Minister at Copenhagen of the affairs of the
two Duchies of Holstein ancrtiauenbour,,,,,, has been
again put off to the 18th August next. This delay
has taken place at the demand of Bargen, the
Consul of the Minister, who, it is said, will also
appear in person before the court. • This great
affair, which is here considered as a national cause,
continues to occupy public attention in the highest
degree in the German Duchies."