The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-10 00:00:00

trious fellow-citizens the chimney-sweeps and
costermongers. Any of the fashionable equestrians
who might declaim against such a suggestion as
extravagant, would, surely, only be following in
the wulgar pathvay already trodden by the Mary-
lebone westrymen ! They would only be evidencing
a wish to render what is " public "—" private." It
is a perfect absurdity for Mr. COWPER to maintain
that the question at issue, in regard to Kensington
Gardens, is one that presents the alternative of pri-
vacy or publicity. As to his extraordinary asser-
tion that "the people who went to the flower gar-
dens never had to cross the ride at all"—we can only
characterise it as a gross, and monstrous, and
wilful, and outrageous misstatement. The Horse-
ride—at the very point where it quits Rotten-row
and trends into Kensington-gardens—cutting right
across THE flower-walk, par excellence, in those
gardens ! It will be remembered well, of course,
that Mr. COWPER, in first defending his little dis-
play of elegant flunkeyism—consulting the com-
fort and convenience not of the Million, but of the
Upper Ten Thousand—had the shabbiness to pre-
tend that his Horse-ride was designed with au
especial regard to the sanitary habits of profes-
sional men, lawyers and doctors, and the like.
Well, one of the lawyers, in the person of Mr.
MALINS, spoke out plainly enough upon the subject
yesterday—and certainly the hon. and learned
gentleman, the member for Wallingford, went dead
against the pet scheme of the Chief Commissioner.
That scheme is one altogether so arbitrary in itself,
so entirely for the benefit of a single section of
society, so wholly in defiance of public opinion, that
we cannot but rest confident that it will follow in
the wake of every perverse and paltry attempt at
class legislation.

Our young P2INCE will be forcibly reminded, by
his journey, of one of the blessings of his lot, If
his life be spared, he will enter upon " the quiet
and peaceable possession," as the lawyers would
say, of his throne, without anything resembling the
struggle which he will witness in America. GIB-
BON has long ago observed how, notwithstanding
the apparent absurdity of devolving the supreme
magistracy on a legitimate heir, who, as facts, and
not theory only, show, may be a weak or vicious
man—at best an average man—more probably than
a very wise one, yet the highest post in the nation
has always been found to be a prize too valuable to
submit to competition. Perhaps, also, the more
educated and thoughtful among our young
cousins are beginning to cherish feelings and senti-
ments which tend this way, though they hardly
dare themselves mould them into ideas and notions,
much less venture to give them utterance in words.
Still, how thoroughly distasteful must it be to re-
fined minds to witness the coarse bullying strife
which is now going on in the States, respecting
an office which ought to represent, not the
passions of the majority, much less of a
half-civilised minority of slave-holders, but the
impartiality on which every citizen, and every class
of citizens might rely. .
Our readers, probably, well know that Repub-
licans are the Conservatives of the United States,
and Democrats the extreme Radicals—the former
leaning strongly to support of the Federal Go-
vernment, while the Democrats lay chief stress on
the sovereignty of individual states. Just now,
however, it is the Slavery Question which over-
rides every other. The three candidates now in the
field, with their corresponding vice-presidents,
(and a fourth candidate is threatened) are all dis-
tinguished from each other by their shades of
opinion on the subject of slavery. Mr. BRECKIN-
RIDGE is the out and out advocate of slavery. His
followers have arrived at the conclusion that it is
a moral good ! at least, this is their creed in ►he

great capital of New York. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE

would stick at nothing ; would renew, were
it needful, the atrocities upheld by PIERCE
and BUCHANAN in Kansas, and would not
object to the slave trade but that his party dread
equally the disgrace of leaving all the honour of
captures to the British, and the expense of convey-
ing the captured negroes to Liberia. To save the
latter expense, indeed, it has been found convenient
to wink at the abduction of the unfortunate re-
leased Africans, and to give out that they are dying
of an epidemic, which epidemic turns out to be one
that takes them for their recovery to the southern
cotton plantations !

Mr. DOUGLAS, though a pro-slavery man, is
strongly opposed to inflicting slavery by coercion
on the territories. He was heartless enough to aid
the slaveholders in abolishing the geographical
line (36 deg. 30 min. N. lat.), north of which it had
been agreed by both parties that slavery should
not be tolerated. But he did so under the pretext
of making the territories supreme judges them-
selves in the matter of slavery. They were to have
full power to tolerate slavery or to forbid it the
territory, until they had arrived at a sufficient
amount of population to enter the Union as
States. Practically Mr. DOUGLAS, who is the
proper leader of the Democratic party, from which
that of BRECKINRIDGE is a secession, is midway
between the more atrocious upholders of slavery
and the Republicans.
The Republicans, however, are not abolitionists.
They shudder at the mere word. They find slavery
to be a political evil ; and they are anxious to
limit its domain. Non-extension of slave-territory
is all they aim at. They deny that, under the
constitution of the United States, Congress, which
has the Government of the territories, can legislate
slavery into them. They regard the constitution—
which is certainly historically true—as designed to
establish freedom, not slavery. Their republican
fathers—they said on one of their platforms, in
1856, prior to the Presidential election of that year
—when they had abolished slavery in all their na-
tional territory, ordained that no person should
be deprived of life, liberty, or property without
due process of law. Hence they deny the right
" of Congress, of any territorial legislature, or of
any individual, or association of individuals, to give
legal existence to slavery in any territory of the
United States, while the present Constitution shall
be maintained." The candidate of this, now very
large party, was to have been the well known Mr.
SEWARD, of New York, but to soothe the excite-
ment of party feeling, a man of whom no One here
ever heard before—a Mr. LINCOLN, of Illinois—
singularly enough the State of Mr. DOUGLAS also—
was hit upon, as one who had hitherto had no
alienating contentions with any party whatever.
On account of the split in the Democratic camp,
which seems likely to be irreconcileable, the Repub-
licans are in great hope this time of carrying their
man; and a mercy indeed it would be to the coun-
try if for once, in a long series of years, a Presi-
dent was elected who represented the freedom and
intelligence of the North, and was not a mere tool
of the South,—a willing abettor, like BUCUANAN,
of the most horrid atrocities in Kansas —if it
might but strengthen the infernal and thrice
accursed villany of slavery. We wish we could
share on this subject the confidence of an author
who writes from professedly personal and inti-
mate knowledge of the subject. Mr. F. M. EDGE
Bays----" The result of the contest next November
will he the election of an Anti-slavery extension
President, and the annihilation of Southern Ter•'