The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-03 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1856.

The forthcoming Presidential election continues
to attract the attention of all parties in the
United States, and deservedly so. We cannot
conceive a more important question than that
now at issue between North and South. It is
one on which not only the stability of the Federal
Union, but the welfare, happiness, and respecta-
bility of the entire population, and the position
which they shall henceforward occupy in the
opinion of the rest of the world, completely de-
pends. No compromise is now practicable. The
planters have, by their own conduct, rendered a
crisis inevitable. They have set their fortunes
upon a cast, and must stand the hazard of the
die. The Free-seilers have hitherto displayed
remarkable forbearance. They have virtually
connived at an abominable system, which
in their souls and consciences they abladr-
red ! This was for the sake of " expediency," a
matter to be respected when no vital principle is
at stake, but which seldom accomplishes the
object aimed at. In such matters injudicious
concessions only provoke fresh aggressions. A
stand must be taken somewhere, and it is better
to do so in the first instance than to wait until
the opposing party have gained strength and con-
fidence from previous success. The Free-soilers
now completely realise this great fact,
and per. that the contest has been rendered far more
arduous in consequence of the efforts made to
avert it.

It is well that their eyes are at length fully
opened—that they have become, even at the
eleventh hour, cognisant of the real nature and
magnitude of the question. We cannot fur a
moment conceive that 25,000,000 of freemen,
active, energetic, and determined, will suffer
themselves to be dictated to by 300,000 slave-
holders, encumbered with ten times their number
of the coloured population held in compulsory
bondage. Should they do so they will be un-
worthy of their Saxon origin, and but little better
than the actual slaveowners. They will practi-
cally be regarded as aiders and abettors in the
atrocious system, for the " domestic institution "
could not last a single
month without their
sanction.

Should FREMONT be elected all
will be well.
They will gain a Peaceful triumph, which will
insure all that they could
desire. But if
EncHANAN. be chosen, then indeed will be the
tug of war. It may, and probably will, be neces"
vary to cut the painter, and sever the connection
with those who are determined +., maintain an
-
unwarrantable ascendancy per fa, aut nefas.
Such a step must necessarily be attended with
serious difficulties and great tempora
Dien inconve-
ferefs' ry
ce. But the planters will be the
only suf..
The North will eventually profit by the
chanc'e, and the very intimation that it may
take
' place Will be sufficient to bring the would-be
oligarchs to a true sense of their real position.

as we have stated, there is
But at present,
no paggi bilitf of any compromise. The contests
rests between FONT and BUCHANAN', and it

is a mockery and delusion to suppose that
there is the slightest chance either for FILL.
MORE or any other party. His supporters
are trying the old Whig game of corning i etween
parties, and governing by obtaining a-sistance
from either side, according to; nature of the
question under discussion. But th t dodge is
now exploded. The juste milieu has lost its power.
The Free-soilers may regard every man who is
not with them as against them. Far better that
the Whigs should openly array themselves
under the black banner of slavery, and vote
directly for BUCHANAN and the extension of
" the domestic institution," than that they
should strive to divide and weaken the Northern
strength by drawing off the lukewarm and the
t i mo-serving.

The Southerns tolerate no such divisions.
They insist on unconditional support, and bring
their mild "persuasices," in the shape of " tar
and feathers," cow-hiding, or, in important oases,
the gallows or the stake, into operation. Theits
is indeed a tyrant majority, that makes no allow-
ance for conflicting opinions. It is not
sufficient to offer no active opposition, or to
keep quiet. Every man who does not go the
whole hog is subjected to an inquisitorial and
searching examination, and if his views do not
prove satisfactory he may think himself fortu-
nate if only sentenced by the self-constituted
judges to perpetual exile. There has been a' re-
cent instance, in which the absence from a meet-
ing to reward Mr. BROOKS, for his ruffianly and
cowardly assault on the venerable Mr. SUMNER,
was considered sufficient to justify a peremptory
order for the banishment of the absentee.
The Southerns have shown their unflinch-
ing resolution to act on geographical distinc-
tions. And if the Northerns wish to meet
them on equal ground, they must show them-
selves equally determined. There can be no
halting between two opinions—no striving to
show fair faces to parties so diametrically op-
posed. The old fable details the contempt ex-
cited both in birds and quadrupeds by the attempt
of the " bat to take advantage of his doubt-
ful conformation, and to array himself on
the stronger side. The transatlantic Free-soilers
should profit by the salutary lesson, and
decide on a bold and manly course one
way or the other. They saw the odium
incurred by CLICQUOT in consequence of
his despicable and pretended neutrality, and
they may be certain that their own position will

not be a whit better (it could not well be worse)
—.should they succeed in dividing the Northern
strength, and thereby giving the victory to
BUCHANAN.

Peace has brought, in its wake, to Europe
A sanguinary coup d'e tat in Spain.
A Marianne conspiracy in France.
A grand defensive armament in Sweden.
A Neuchatel rising in Switzerland.
A Pro-Muscovite rebellion in Montenegro.
A yet darker display of cruelty in Naples.
A. Ministerial crisis in Denmark.
A. Russian aggression in the Isle of Serpents.
And, together with all these beatific conse-
quences of the ever-infamous and despicable Pa-
risian Compromise with the Autocrat—a pompous
display of subservieney to the CAE on the part
of the Anglo-French Allies, the like of which the
world has seldom witnessed since the fabled days
when the tributary kings, clad in ermine and
purple, and crowned with golden crowns, were
harnessed to We imperial car of SESOSTILIB.
It is a fitting sequel, all this, to the late preci-
pitate evacuation of the Crimea by the United
fcrces of England, France, Turkey, and Sar-
dinia. A simultaneous retreat from before the
even then unconquered northern forts of Sebasto-
pol, effected by these four most formidable Allies,
at the very time when Kars was held by the
Russian troops under MOURATIEFP, while Aus-
trian mercenaries still kept in undisputed posses-
sion the coveted prize of the whole contest (the
territorial HELEN of the modern siege of Troy),
the twin Danubian Principalities ! No marvel,
after this most " lame and impotent conclusion"
to the War, that results like those above enu-
merated should so soon signalise the character of
the mean diplomatic hocus-pocus of the Paris
Plenipotentiaries. No wonder that more recently
there should come evidences of scorn towards
Great Britain in particular, as painfully glaring
and notorious as those manifested—on the one
hand by a royal pigmy like the King of NAPLES,
and on the other by a giant offspring of her own
(flesh of her flesh and bone of her bane), the
United States of North America. Here BOMBA
returns an insolent refusal to her ultimatum—
BOMBA to whom Punch gave the derisive advice at
the outbreak of the late War, that, in regard to
the attitude he (BoMBA) should assume in the
midst of the European contest, he had better by
all means get under the bed, but that at any
rate he had better got out of the way ! Here, in a
totally opposite direction, her MAJESTY'S Envoy is
c)olly compelled by the "powers that be," al
Washington--(in Yankee phraseology)—to absqua,
tulate ! Mr. CRAMPTON sent to the right-about
by the American Government Lord CLAREN-
DON'S arguments pertly pooh-poohed by the Nea-
politan ! Such being the magnificent sequel of the
war against Russia by the united legions of Eng-
land, and France, and Turkey, and Sardinia ! A
war "drifted into" by a craven and bungling
diplomacy—a war impotently commenced, im
potently carried oat, and impotently concluded

As O'CONNELL used often to exclaim—Thank you
for Nothing! says the GaIUFA. S 3, surely, may
all of us, Gallo-Anglic, or Anglo-Gallic Monoma-
niacs—we who have been "dreaming, doting" over
the fanciful belief that England and France, once
united, might dictate terms to the whole—ex-
claim, as the p3or Liberator used to exclaim so
often—Thank you for Nothing! Never was there
such a bubble as this credulity of the political
omnipotence of France and England when
united. Not, it is true, but what we still
believe in that great damaged day-dream !
Not but what we still believe in it, that
is to say, with France and England acting
together in real earnest ! Which they have not
been doing at all—positively and absolutely have
not been doing at all, from the first moment to
the last moment of the grand sham-battle with
the armies of the Russian Autocrat. Did not
Lord RAGLAN declare most distinctly to very
credible witnesses—before setting out for the seat
of war—that not a shot would be fired in anger ?
Was not that the intention of the British Go-

vernmeat when they sent their military and

maritime armaments into the Black Sea—as they

afterwards sent their grand unparalleled fleet into
the Baltic under the command, not of a DRAKE,
but of a Goose ? Was not every detail in regard
to our warlike arrangements botched from begin-

ning to end ?—intantry and cavalry—the medical

department and the commissariat ! Was not

Balaklava a blunder—and Inkerman a surprise—

and the Redan a defeat ? Was not Kars wilfully
allowed to be starved into submission as affording

a loop-hole of escape to the so-called dignify of

Russia ? Has the cowardly attack upon the ship-
wrecked crew of the " Tiger," off Odessa, ever
been avenged ? Has the infamous Massacre of