The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-01 00:00:00

be exacted. Military despotism or any other rule
would be preferable to such an alternative as that
presented in the Sherman bill. If degradation and
torture are in store for us, let not our people volun-
tarily aid in the infliction, but let the shame of such
a monstrous iniquity fall upon its instigators and
authers.—Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. •
The people of the South will now present a united
front. They will turn upon their persecutors and
exhibit toward them that universal, concentrated
hate and scorn which their conduct has inspired.
The man in our midst who favours this military bill
is au enemy to the people among whom he lives,
and the man who recognises or encourages its ad-
vocates with his patronage or his smile is no better
than the itadicAl scoundrels who are seeking to rob
us of liberty, and to make us the abject slaves of
the most unprincipled tyrants that ever disgraced
the earth.—Memphis Avalanche.
The only question we are privileged to determine
is, whether the present constituted authorities will
take charge of the machinery and work it to the
best possible advantage for the public, or leave it
in the hands of unknown adventurers or well-known
knaves, who may saddle us with a despotism after
the model of Brownlow.—Richmond Whig.
We say; submit to what cannot be averted, but
take no part in the attempt to fix upon ourselves
everlasting disgrace and degradation. —Colunibu's
(Ga.) Sun.
Let us learn one lesson—the course of abolitionism
has been onward, day by day, ever since the Go-
vernment was formed, and in no single year has it
made greater strides than in the one last past. To
our mind it has long been plain that if we did
not vote the negro they would.—Atlanta (Ga.)
Opinion.

In our judgment any military rigour—any coerced
submission to any terms—is preferable to the volun-
tary debasement and infamy, and the permanent,
irretrievable ruin the Southern States will incur by
adopting the terms of this b.ll.—Charleston Mer-
cury.
We impress upon our readers the salient and
remarkable fact, that the measure makes absolutely
no provision for effecting the objects which it osten-
sibly contemplates. If the real design had been to
accomplish a restoration of the Union, some
machi-
nery would have been provided by means of which

the Southern States would have been " rehabili-
tated." The time of restoration would not have
been indefinitely postponed by leaving the initiatory
movements optional with the people of the Southern
States. In fact, this measure rivals the constitu-
tional amendment as an inefficient project, and
equals it as a dilatory expedient. If the Republican
party can Iker up against the odium and the re-
sponsibility of a continued severance of the Union,
it is not for the people of the South to help them
out of their difficulties by allying themselves
with their projects. We would, therefore, advise
our people to remain perfectly calm and fearless,
and to proceed in all public and private matters
just as if no military Government bill had ever
passed Congress.—New Orleans Crescent. - : •
Why allould we yet despair of a favourable re-
action in Northern sentiment, when uo popular
indications whatever have yet been given of the
acceptability of the harsh measures proposed for our
Government—when elections are just about to come
off that will afford a better understanding of the
feeling of the Northern people? .Why not continue
in the unmolested enjoyment, vouchsafed to us for
a brief period, of the State (or " Provisional")
Government of our own choosing ? Columbus(Ga.)
Enquirer.