The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-15 00:00:00

follows:

" After the secession of South Carolina, the other cotton
States were to follow as rapidly as the machinery of seces-
sion by means of conventions could bo put into operation.
That matter was decided and in train ; the more Northern
and border States, which were still doubtful, were to be
coaxed, or dragooned into the movement, as might be ne-
cessary, and especially Maryland. As soon as Maryland
should secede, she was to pass an act rescinding the act
of cession to the United States of that part of the district
of Columbia which had formerly belonged to Maryland.
The moment that act was passed Washington was to be
seized under colour of law as belonging to the State of
Maryland. The new Confederacy was to be improvised,
the Constitution and laws of the United States were
to be readopted as they stood, with a single ex-
ception, making slavery universal. The new Con-
federacy was to be proclaimed the United States
de facto. The allegiance of the army and navy was to be
claimed, and would, they believed, be yielded. Recognition
by the foreign Ministers at Washington was to be de-
manded, and as they felt assured would be conceded, an
invitation was to be extended to the Northern and Wes-
teru States, excepting New England, and perhaps Western
New York,. to resume their places in the new Confederacy
on -precisely the:same terms as in the old ; those invita-
tions, they thouglit,•would be gradnally accepted, and the
new Government wi o move an.",
When history ColieS.th deal with thiS'stibiet, freelrom
the prejudices whir,hnow so generally blind our judgment,
it will be.acknnwledged that few countries, with annals
etubracinp;]a 'thousand' years, had ever to face so great a
peril. The action taken by the Union League Club will
then give to that body a prominent place among the bene-
factors of mankind. " This was the bold outline of a plan
that depended for its execution on the concurrence of the
Northern Democracy, and which but for the efforts of the
members of the Union League Club might have been par-
tially successful. It was through their vigilance that Con-
gress and the North were with difficulty aroused to the
dangers that threatened the capital, and it was owing to
information conveyed to the Government by one of the
most faithful and untiring of your body that the Maryland
Legislature the moment it met, without waiting for a State
Convention, intended to prepare an Act of Secession, and
commit Maryland to the fortunes of the Rebellion, that
the orders were promptly given to General M‘Clellan
to arrest its members in advance of their assembly. This
timely move, of the occasion for which the country has
I believe never been publicly advised, checked the auda-
cious plan by which Washington was to have been seized
under colour of law with all its muniments and archives,
and a now Government de f ado proclaimed and recognised
by the Foreign Ministers in a manner well calculated to
demoralise and dismay the country."
It was this club that nerved the Cabinet of Mr. Lincoln,
that supplied the money and the credit, which enabled him
to maintain the national honour. To it is due that magni-
ficent gathering in Union Place which accepted the chal-
lenge of war given at Sumter. This was the body which
first unfurled the standard, and roused the nation to a
sense of its condition a-id of its duties. From its energy
first proceeded that spirit that spread like wild-fire through
all the land. The open display of traitorous designs were
overawed in New York. Treason was driven from the
public marts, the churches, and drawing-rooms, and the
rebels of New York were astonished to find the stars and
stripes waiving from a hundred steeples, and allegiance to
the Constitution solemnly enjoined as a Christian duty.
But the Club did not confine its work to a mere moral
influence. It had poured out its money like water—it
had roused up the enthusiasm of the country—and then it
proceeded to raise volunteers by thousands. While the
soldiers and sailors of the nation fought their desperate foe
at the front, this devoted band of loyal men guarded their
rear from the more insidious enemy they had left behind.
Throughout the war their energies never flagged ; and
this foremost body of patriots had the happiness of carry-
ing out the great principles for which they contended to
a result so triumphant that their name will never cease to
be associated in the Union with the great contest they in-
augurated, and for whose success they had so devotedly con-
tended. Such, in a few words, is the history of this asso-
ciation. But John Jay does not confine his address to an
outline of its career. T his is touched on more as incidents
of the broad and national policyhe expounds. The pamph-
let is replete with striking statements of errors of policy
and the means by which they were rectified, their effects
in Europe, the action of European powers, and the posi-
tion Americans have attained in Europe, which ho will
consider in a future number. Mr. Jay has supplied in his
address ILater!als sufficient fur vuluutc6—statunients which
we have no doubt will give rise to fierce controversy, and
bring on himself all the thunders of a party he has so
'orcibly and fearlessly denounced.

America at the Paris Exposition.
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A writer in a contemporary says ;......

Six,—Von Bismarck having finished his game of ten
pins, and having made some excellent ten strikes, besides
knocking some skittles out of shape and out of sight, has
now, we believe, retired to some watering-place, in order
to invigorate his health ; while Prussia, flushed with vic-
tory, and intoxicated with her marvellous advancement
among the nations of the earth, wears a placid smile of
contentment that is really touching. She now declares to
all the small kingdoms she has conquered by the sword
and absorbed by the stroke of the pen that her aim is
peace, the advancement of science and art, and the solidarity
of the people. Austria, having shaken off the Quadri-
lateral, which rested as .an incubus on her vitality,
and having rid herself of the presence of the uninvited
and unwelcome visitors who so familiarly explored
her tobacco factories and her vineyards, now announces
that her whole aim and purpose is to benefit those who are
subject to her anti to recuperate her exhausted military and
monetary system.
Italy, ever bathed in the soft sunshine of classic
memory, ever interesting in her history of marble and
soul-subduing in her Eden-like fascination, is free from the
Alps to the Adriatic. Venice comes back and brings the
iron crown of Lombardy to adorn the brow of Italy's king.
A thousand years of suffering, of tyranny, of misfortune,
and long-wearing waiting, has at last culminated in an
Italy that will be an entirety. The Pope is preparing
to depart. The banners, vestments, and all the grand
paraphernalia that have so long glittered and daz-
zled near the throne of the Caosars, will ere long
symbolise only the religion of Christ, while the King
shall sit on her Capatoline Hillai wielding temporal power
over that land of poetry and art.
Russia is engaged in advancing her internal interests, in
improvements of every kind, and at this moment in pre-
parations for the nuptials of the heir to the throne and a
lovely princess. Triumphant arches, splendid banquets,
regal processions, and wondrous illuminations will be the
panorama presented for the next two or three months in
that mighty empire. Turkey is suppressing revolt in
Candia, and ere the lapse of a month peace, however cruel
its conditions, will be an accomplished fact.
England will go on in her usual peaceful way. The
stroke of the hammer, the pulsation of the engine, and the
roar of trade will echo from land's end to land's end.
France said through her Emperor, "l'Enzpire c'est paix,"
and the visitor to Paris, if he will but visit the Champ do
Mars, will realise the truth of these words. Nut only is a
building raising its douses and roof toward the sky, and
spreading its great wings over immense space, but a city
is appearing as if by magic, and astonishing by its propor-
tions all who look upon it.
Europe is at peace, and all the nations aro invited iu
1867 to Manifest their love of peace by joining in this Ex-
hibition, which is to inaugurate a now era of "Peace on
earth and good-will towards men." Such an assemblage as
will meet in Paris to inaugurate this gigantic temple,
erected in honour of the useful and the beautiful, will find
no parallel in history. La belle Paris, beautiful and won-
drously brilliant as she always is, will outdo herself, and
right royal will be the welcome she will extend to the re-
presentatives of all the tribes of the earth. There will be
Emperors in imperial purple and Empresses in matchless
garments, and decked with priceless jewelled diadems,