The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-25 00:00:00

judge results. Small stages, however, do furnish
examples, such for instance as the island of Great
Britain, where the benefit of the people has assuredly
been consulted by fusing the inhabitants into one,
community, under one government, instead of
hostile clans, principalities, and kingdoms. Amal-
gamated, England became for many years the lead-
ing nation of the world, founding the most success-
ful of all settlements. Divided, England would
have left no such mark nor have made any such
history. What bas been of such unspeakable
benefit to Great Britain is likely in the course of
ages to be beyond comparison more beneficial to the
continent of North America, and it was this Empire
that the Union men had in their mind's eye when
they fought to the end their great fight, and were
prepared to fight it all over again sooner than lose
the result. Englishmen will not appreciate it, and
will not see the gigantic issue involved, condemning
the American with whom it overshadows a side
issue in itself of undoubted moral right and vast
importance, yet as nothing compared with the other.
Emancipatioa affected the well being of an existing
generation numbering four millions ; it had social
consequences that ramified over the nation, and in a
money way alone involved property valued at
$3,000,000,000. But this was, like the property
tax levied on the inheritance compared with the
inheritance itself, though there are those who cen-
sure the inheritor for attaching more importance to
the estate than to the tax. The great triumph of
the war was in preventing North America from
becoming a second Europe. In the establishment
of a Slave Empire able to maintain itself, together
with the rise of the Dominion, another nation soon
to be independent, America would have been split
up and further subdivision might have followed.
Then would have been achieved what Europe panted
to see, not that Europe hated the Republic of the
day, but dreaded the Republic of the future. That
the Northern people thought more of their unity
on the Continent than of the emancipation of the
negroes shows that they took, in regarding the po-
sition, a broader and more comprehensive view than
their detractors; and the nation was justified in the
prospect of such a calamity in its determination
to uphold that unity, no matter at what cost of life
and suffering. It would be mere infatuation to
suppose that the Northern people designed to ex-
terminate their brethren in the South for the sole
purpose of emancipating an alien and despised race,
with whom they had but little sympathy ; and al-
though there were thousands whose object this was,
and who could see nothing beyond the grievous
moral wrong, yet the fixed decision of the national
heart was to preserve the great empire of the
future, whers.in lay, as plain sense told them, a
destiny of the utmost importance to mankind. They
may fail in achieving their ideal ; other an] snore
insurmountable difficulties may arise, and the war,
except in the abolition, of slavery, may have been
fought in vain. But there is good reason to think
that there never was less chance of this than at the
prevent moment, for its cost was a great price paid
for a great end, which the people the more value,
because they have bought it for so much, and have
learnt to see how cheap it was even at that heavy
price when finding themselves on the brink of the .al-
ternative. What Europe dreads is an unjust use by the
Republic of its overwhelming strength in the future.
But would there nothave been more danger in thecon-
stunt bickering and the entangling alliances which
would have followed the successful establishment of
the Confederacy? For a hundred years the Republic
will have snore than it can do in filling up its waste
places ; its policy will be purely American, and
would now be so but for the political connection
kept up with America by Europe. That connection
will soon cease, for if the positive assertion of the
New York Sun be true, General SICKLES has been
instructed to offer a certain sum to the Spaniards
to withdraw from Cuba, the bonds to be gua-
ranteed by the United States, provided Congress
sanction the treaty; the alternative being that the
United States will recognize the independence of
the island on the offer being rejected. Great Bri-
tain is desirous of withdrawing from her vast pos-
sessions in North America, and when this is ac-
complished the severance will be complete, and we
cannot conceive how any case could arise that
would lead to a war between the Republic and any
European Power. A good international code lo-
nestly administered would effectually prevent any
such contingency, and America would secure all it
wants, for all it asks is to be left to itself to carry
out its own destiny ; when in failing to achieve its
ideal the failure would be its own. It is a well-
ascertained fact that the prosperity of one country
adds to the prosperity of another. The more abun-
dantly the earth is made to yield her fruits the
better for all on this globe, and more especially is
the prosperity of the North American continent
likely to be of service to mankind, particularly to
Europeans. It is a great granary, it is a rich and
ready customer ; and, above all, it is an asylum for
the oppressed and the poor. The oppressed and
the poor may be taken to be the majority of Eu-
rope, and it is not among them and their children,
millions of whom will yet seek its shelter, that the
Republic must look for its enemies. We are at a
loss to see real grounds why it should have enemies,
for in the prosperity of a continent the rich are
even snore directly interested than the poor. To
them it is the opening up of new sources of wealth,
broad fields for investment, luxury, invention, and
travel ; but still more in the very asylum to the
poor which it provides. What the rich of Europe
owe to the way in which the public lands of the
Republic have been thrown open to all, can never
be known, but it is doubtless more than can readily
be conjectured. It draws off the energy—the bone
and sinew of discontent turning into a useful
channel the very element of danger the luxurious
classes in Europe have most to dread ; and the
greater the extent to which America can do this the
better for them. Unity is the best means, for by
combination a power is obtained to secure the end of
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were the exodus shut out for a few years from
America, the result would be a revolution that would
capsize many Old World Institutions.

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