The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1856

"The rose by any other name will smell as
sweet ;" and a democratic President may be, to
all intents and purposes, as tyrannical and over-
bearing as the veriest despot, even as the AUTO-
CRAT par excellence. General P/ERCII is making
the most of his brief tenure of office, and ruling
with a rod of iron those who have the misfortune
to be placed under his control and direction.
Like the unjust steward, he is making to himself
friends of the mammon of unrighteousness. He
has accepted a retainer from the pro-slavery party,
and is apparently determined to go the entire
animal on their side. They themselves have ex-
hibited a degree of energy and zeal worthy a
better cause. They have, without the slightest
warrant, entered on a war of extermination—not
against the coloured population, whom they have
hitherto treated as beings of an inferior order,
without any of the claims or privileges of huma-
nity ; but against their fellow-citizens, who are
as fully entitled as themselves to State protection
and all the benefits of the existing laws. Thty
are, in fact, treating the Free-soil settlers as men
whom they may rob or even murder with impu-
nity ; and the Government accepts their defini-
tion, treating them as " insurgents," and their
acts of self-defence as rebellion against the mljesty
of the law.

It is indeed a high bribe, not merely promised,
but actually paid in advance, to the planters for
their votes and interest at the approaching Presi-
dential election. The Autocrat PiEram has rendered
Mini& as completely the humble servant of the
plantation owners as if ho had been set up and
sold by auction to the highest bidder. He is
prepared to do their dirty work, whatever it may
be, even to the extent of declaring war against
the Free•soil party, and marching the Federal
troops against those by v‘hom they are paid and
supported.

The wisdom and propriety of taking on the
Kansas rider to the Army Appropriation Bill is
thus clearly manifested ; and it is only to be re-
gretted that the patriotic members of the Housi
of Representatives, or rather some few of the
number, suffered themselves to be defeated by
the insidious schemes of the Executive and of the
Senate. But matters cannot long go on in their
present state. If there is indeed to be an inter-
necine war—if

" Civil dissension, with its vip'rons tooth,
That gnaws the bowels of the common weal,"

is to prevail, the North must prepare itself for the
contest which it has not provoked, but which has
been forced upon it by the insolent audacity of
the planters, and the criminal connivance of the
Government.

If " a house or a kingdom divided against
itself cannot stand," much less can
"United States," where each division is pulling
against the other, and the interests and
feelings of one party are diametrically opposed to
those of the other. It is now evident that the
Federal Union between such conflicting elements
cannot last—that twenty-five millions of free-
born men will not submit to be bullied and in-
sulted by an insignificant minority, who, unless
sustained by the connexion, could not hold their
own for a single year. An oligarchy such as that
virtually established by the blaveowners is more
hateful even than a despotism. In place of one,
there are many tyrants. Every wholesome law is
set aside, or, still worse; prostituted from its
legitimate purposes to the use of the three hun-
dred thousand tyrants. The Free-soilers would
indeed be contemptible if they succumbed to such
unreasonable and unauthorised domination.
As we have repeatedly stated, they hold the
remedy in their own hands, and can apply it at