The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-24 00:00:00

1,-)'<l:o'N', FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1856.

Italy is given the go-by as coolly in 1856 as the
same thing was done in 1854 in regard to Poland.
The infamy of this reiterated policy of cowardice
cannot but hang over the heads of the Western
Powers an avenging blade as keen and deadly as
the one that trembled of o'd upon the suspension
of a hair above the head of DAMOCLES. A gos-
samer thread held in the hand of an unsparing
i NEMESIS ! How deplorable the contrast pre-
sented by this despicable laissez faire system of
turpitude and indifference when compared with
the heroic and divine principle of the antique
Governments--Fiat justitia ruat e9guni,! Justice?
Has it not demanded the restoration of the Polish
nationality ever since the ditto of the first, and
more than ever since the last fatal, and disastrous
Partition? Has it not pleaded, from the disrup-
tion of the Evzintine Empire even until now, for
the revival of the most grand and fascinating of
all the great European daydreams—that of the
revival of Icalian Independence ? , Yet, how have
the twin arbiters of the destinies of Christendom
allowed opportunity to slip by after opportunity
—whether in reference to the restoration of that
nationality of Poland, or to the revival of that
independence of the Roman Peninsula ! There
was the sequel of the revolutionary outbreak of
1830, when one after another the nations of the
European Continent strove to emerge from the
darkness of despotic to the light of constitutional
administration. Afterwards there was the sequel
of the still wilder insurrectionary turmoil of
1848, when the thunders of the dread political
detonation in Paris were re-echoed from the
Alps to the Carpathians. A signal from France,
or one from England, or, better still, a simul-
taneous trumpet-call from both—and Italy, as in
the twinkling of an eye, would have been in
arms from the lagunes of Venice to the hill-tops
of the Abruzzi !—and Poland would have risen
as one from the dead to reassert the glory of
her ancient fame, the fame of SOBIESKI, the
fame of STANISLAUS, the fame of KOSCIUSKO !
And now in 1856, when the Revolu4.ions of "thirty"
and "forty-eight" have fermented or evaporated
down to their veriest dregs--Poland lies still
dead and buried under the heels of her banded
spoliators---Italy still groans in the long captivity
muffing from the greed of foreign spoilers and
from the degeneracy of her debased and almost
unhoping population. Alas ! after all, it may be
scarcely so lamentable a fate that Poles and
Italians have never awakened the sympathies,
separately or together, of the Gallic or
had
drittibshe
Governments. Possibly, if not
Western Powers combined their energies for the
building rip anew of a monarchy, having its
capital at Wars2w or at Cracow, at Rome or at
Milan, we should have seen the parturient
1 mountain giving bile h to some mouse of a Ger-
' man Potentate ! Was it not so at the close
of the sublime farce of the Hellenic Revolution ?
That mageiticeet outburst of enthusiasm
which carried the imagination of Europe back to
the classic age of MILTIADES and EPAMINONDAS
—that superb outbreak of a resuscitated people
at whose behest MATEOCORDATO buckled on his

armour—in whose behalf CAMPBELL struck the
lyre of a TYRTiEITS—for whose behoof young
BYRON died the death of a grander KORNER upon
his pallet at Missolonghi. 'Yet out of this came
forth the Bavarian mani►ikin, hight King
OTHO, fitly matched with a. Russian Dr.. 7 ..trRA in
the person of his Queen A.:MELIA. So, too, might
it be, were Italy restored, and Poland reesta-
blished by the affectedly magnanimous com-
plicity of the Cabinets of St. James's and the
Tuileries. The Poles might have to bond
the knee to some petty German princeling—
the Italians might have to doff the cap to the
plumed bonnet (with no he ad in it to speak of)
of some new Teutonic GESSLER. No—if Italy is
to be restored, if Poland is to be revived—that
revival, that restoration, must bo effected by the
Poles and Italians themselves. And so let us leave
them till the Hour shall b e struck by the fiat of
GOD, as struck it infallibly will be in His own
good time—Hope still growing more fully, ever
and ever, in the breast of Pole and Italian, Faith
in their cause still nerving their arms more and
more firmly, Love for their common nationality
still lighting up their mutual memory of the past
with the unquenchable flame of their heroic and
affecting aspirations.

A little more than a week since a letter, headed

" Railways and Revolvers in Georgia," appeared
in a morning contemporary, containing a narrative
so startling in every respect, that it was by many
set down as a miserable hoax, intended to bring
a journal which had spoken freely and undis-
guisedly on the atrocities perpetrated by the slave-
owners and their supporters into contempt and
disrepute. The Times itself explained the mode
in which the statement had obtained admission
into its columns, declaring that it had been
held back until it had investigated and been
fully satisfied as to the credibility of the writer,
and adding that it would welcome any refutation

of the horrible tale of murder. This invitation

brought two American writers into the field, who
strongly contested the authenticity of the account,
and undertook to institute stringent inquiries as
to the facts of the case, demanding, that in
the event of being able to show that it was a pure
invention, the name of the author of a hoax so
unmanly and cruel should be given up to public
reprobation.

The author of the statement has, however,
voluntarily come forward, giving his name and
address, and' reiterating all the fearful circum-
stances of the case. As we have already stated,
it requires a high degree of moral courage for any
man to expose himself voluntarily to the danger
he must incur from such sanguinary and blood-
thirsty ruffians, as the " highly respectable mer-
chant from Weston," described by Mr. ARROWSMITH,
who " was bound to bring down some one before
he was done," and would " put a chunk of lead
right,off into the woolly head of any dog gauned
Abolitionist," or " the tall, muscular, and hard
visaged man of about 50," who coolly perpetrated
such atrocious murders within the time occupied
in a single journey by railway. It was, therefore,
very natural that Mr. ARROWSMITH should, in
the first instance, have " suppressed his name, as
a matter of personal safety ;" and he is entitled
to great credit for having, when his veracity was
impugned, cast aside all personal considerations,
and boldly come forward to substantiate the most
awful statement that ever appeared in an English
journal.

We are now bound to credit the awful narra-
tive, and we are the more justified in so doing,
inasmuch as it details matters strictly analogous
to those related by Mr. THOMAS GLADSTONE.
Can any ono doubt that " the highly respectable
Weston merchant" would have been quite ready
to imbrue his hands in blood if he met with the
slightest opposition, or that he was fully con-
vinced that he had numerous auxiliaries on
board, who would have strenuously supported
him in any "difficulty" he might occasion, and
protect him from the penal consequences of his
-oloodthirsty acts ? While pouring forth his
diatribes and insults he was surrounded by an
admiring audience, who cheered and applauded
to the echo the blatent trash he was scream-
ing out. Any avowed Freesoiler would
scarcely have obtained the slender chance of a
duel, although with such practised and skilful
hands as the " tall, muscular, and hard-visaged
n au" designated as C. by Mr. ARROWSMITH ; the
prospect of escape would be very remote indeed.

What, then, can we think of a state of society
such as that so graphically delineated ? What of
the train being stopped to permit parties to fight,
as Sir LUCIUS O'TRIGGER would say, in peace and
quietness, and a man about sixty years of age
leaving his child without protection while he was
waging a battle of life and death against a fellow-
passenger with whom he happened to differ in
opinion ? What of C.'s assault on the unfortu-
nate French hairdresser, and the fatal combat,
while the accommodating conductor kept the
train at a stand-still until the survivor
could return to his seat ? What of the
subsequent duel in the smoking car with
the noiseless MONTE-CHRISTO pistols, and the
murder of the young man who so recklessly
became the champion of the HELEN whose frivo-
lity occasioned the terrible, tragedy But terrible
and heart-rending as were these transactions, what
were they to the wilful, deliberate, and brutal
murder of the poor child, who deplored the loss
of his aged father more emphatically than was
quite agreeable to C. and his companion ? Even
the subsequent assassination of B.'s father, and
the person who rescue.' the unfortunate child
in the first instance, sink into insignificance
when compared with that heart-rending outrage,
which Indian savages would sc%rcely have perpe-
trated during the period when war to the knife
was proclaimed between the Aborigines and the
" Yengeese."
And all this series of atrocities,
.iri which six
lives have been so cruelly sacrificed, is regarded
as "by no means an uncommon occurrence ;" and
the miscreants chiefly responsible are permitted to
escape justice. Surely a community in which
such things are possible cannot pretend to the
slightest degree of civilisation. There may be
good men amongst them, but so long as they wil-
fully close their eyes to such a revolting state of
affairs, they are participators in the outrages
which they do not attempt to stop. The Northerns
should forthwith sever the unhallowed connexion,
and remove the stigma that any association with
elaveowners and their murderous advocates must
bring about. We earnestly hope that the "New
Englander " and "H. C. W.," who have im-
pugned the accuracy of Mr. ARROWSMITH'S state-
inent, will detail the results of the investigations
they have promised to institute, aad as they,were
so anxious to know Mr. ARItOWSMITII'S name and
addres., that they also will communicate their
own to the public.

What with laud sharks and sea shacks it has
evermore been the lot of poor Jack to be vic-
timised. Shut up in a limited society, with
little variety of character, he finds in the discharge
of a daily routine of duties but an occasional
relief from the monotonousness which keeps in