The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-20 00:00:00

had been received from Jacksonville, Oregon, that
General Crook had been defeated on the 17th 0!
October near Goose Lake Valley by the Pint and
Pitt River Indians. After an action extending over
.
two days, the General retreated,. with the loss of
Lieutenant Manigan and six men killed and
wounded. The General is awaiting reinforcements
at the upper end of the valley.
Thaddeus Stevens being too ill to take to the
" stump," has resorted to his pen to influence his
countrymen in the present crisis of his party. ll°,
has published an elaborate allress in the form °I
a conversation held with a German-American citizen.
Since the adoption of the 14th Amendment to that
Constitution he has no doubt of the full power of
Congress to regulate the elective franchise, so far as
it regards the whole nation, in every State of the
Union, and he hopes that the Legislature Will exer-
cise this p.,)wer for the benefit of the nation. In this
he means that Congress can pass a Negro Suffrge
Bill, operative alike in North and South. The
Amendment declares— . _

"All persons born or naturalised in the United States
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the
United States and of the State wherein they reside. No
State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge
the privileges and immunities of citizens of the IThit'ed
States, nor shall any person be deprived of life, liberty, or
property without duo process of law; nor deny any Per-
son within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws."

Mr. Stevens asks—" Can he who swears to sup'
port the Constitution in all its parts refuse to aid in
carrying this into effect without clear, direct Per-
jury ?" He concludes this portion of his address 1..
glorying in the fact that this result has been brought,
about by the rebellion, saying, ,t What a grand
compulsion have these despots, rebels, and Emu'
derers finally forced upon the American Republic
by their impatient, rash, and bloody acts." li/n,
thinks that the man who would deny the right
suffrage to any being " to whom God has given
immortality . . must be an impudent citizen,
and ought never to profess to believe in the
existence of a Deity ;" and, with an allusion
which, as a writer says, must come Pain-
fully home to him in his present enfeebled con'
dition, adds that, "We must remember that
most of us are separated from the dread tribunal
occupied by a Judge who cannot be deceived, 11
the narrowest isthmus that ever divided time frntn
eternity." He goes on to describe the position o',
the West Indies and the future before them NO°
formed into a powerful republic, and paints in glow'
ing colours the destiny of these rich territories
under the rule of their negro inhabitants. While
sober-minded men look with dread at the proceed'
ings of the Hunnicutts, the Morisseys, the Under,
woods, engaged in the task of separating the black
i
sheep from the white, as one not unlikely to end lia
a war of races, this enthusiast, true to the gran
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idea of his life, expends almost his last breath In
picturing a career of greatness for the people with
whom he has so identified himself.
Oliver Goldsmith has made famous an Englisll
hamlet as—

"Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain ;7, ,g•
but this is nothing to the lustre Mr. Seward
shedding over his Auburn. The last move of tt:'
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, if report speaks tree'
will raise the ghosts of some of the Puritan Fathers'
Ile has sent the Rev. Dr. Hawley from Auburn en
a mission to Rome to offer the Pope an asylum it;
America should he be compelled to abandon °
Eternal City. A home in Massachusetts, witb.
Garibaldi next door, will be a pleasing prospect for
the holy Father, who would then indeed have s
chance of ending his days in peace !
The President has appointed the 28th Noveieber
a day of National Thanksgiving for abundant hal:
vest and general prosperity, for the return of Pe3c
and reconciliation, and, we presume, for the great
Democratic victory in California, Pennsylvania'
Ohio, New York, and New Jersey. The Nati/ $
which always writes bitterly of Mr. Johnson, sal
that it likes him better as a politician than a 5
theologian —how it likes him as a politician it 113 s
given some proof, and how it likes him as a theol,;
giau it proceeds to tell. It objects to Mr. Johnsen
catalogue of the blessings for which the people aro
to give thanks. " There are some men," it sae'
"who could make one out which would move us all t°
tears, but when Mr. Johnson tries it, it is not tear:
exactly that we feel rising. The progress ef tut
Pacific Railroad seems a very fine thing, Il
whether God will look on it with favour or not will
depend on the use that is made of it when it 1.5
finished, and not on the rapidity with which it It
laid. There is no good ground for believing tbni
he considers the mere rapid settlement of arable 1aa..14
or the development of " our mineral resources' n;
things in themselves pleasing. Railroads, we n.r
bound to presume, are satisfactory to him net in
ir
proportion to the superficial area they open up _,
quay ib4
the sale of dry goods and patent pumps and
crushers, but in proportion to the amount a truth'
and justice, and mercy they spread abroad. The Ito
change in the management of the Erie Railroad "
consider also a good thing, and apparently a WI,
ing to the community, but we advise our fellow'
citizens to omit all mention of it in their devotions
on Thanksgiving Day."