The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-01 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, JA A UARY 1, 1866.

The Asia brings us intelligence from the United
States to the 21st inclusive, so that we are kept
almost au courant with events in New York. The
wise and conciliatory policy of the PRESIDENT is
evidently accepted by the great body of the people,
and the Radicals, who at the first meeting of Con-

greys appeared to carry all before them, have been
since compelled to abate their pretensions. Mr.
SU3INER, indeed, seems as if he would be satisfied
with nothing less than converting the Southern
States into a Hayti on a larger scale, but happily
his sentiments are not endorsed by any considerable
or influential party in the Senate of which he is a
member. The PRESIDENT has sent a Message to the
Senate, accompanied by the Reports of General
GRANT and CARL SCHIJRZ upon the present condi-
tion of the South. General GRANT expresses him-
self satisfied with the aspect of affairs, and he be-
lieves that thinking men in the South have accepted
the situation in goodfaith, and regard slavery or se-
cession ,as finally disposed of by the issue of the war.
He recommends that small garrisons of white men
should remain in the interior where the freedmen
are numerous, being evidently of opinion that it is
desirable to have some check upon them as well as
upon the white population. The freedman says
the General is not yet disabused of the idea that
he has the right to live without care or provision
for the future, which encourages him to idleness
and induces him to muster in camps and cities. To
counteract this, and so provide the negro with
assistance and advice, as well as the legal protection
which the law affords, General GRANT approves of
the maintenance of the Freedmen's Bureau in a
modified form, partially incorporated with the mili-
tary department. This would be a wise and consti-
tutional mode of dealing with the matter, and it is
quite evident that the freedmen—unused to think
or act for themselves greatly need a coun-
sellor and friend. Every man who wishes
them well must agree that it is abso-
lutely imperative they should be made to
understand the necessity of working for their
own living. It is cruel kindness for the professional
abolitionists to delude them with theories about the
rights of man, and to encourage them in the belief,
which many of them hold, that the estates of the
South will be parcelled out among them, so that
each man may live upon the produce of his own bit
of land, indifferent to the necessities or anxieties
of all beyond. Even this life, however, proves too
troublesome for the African when he is once free
to indulge his inherent indolence, The slaves have
hitherto been forced to work ; they have therefore
the advantage of previous discipline and habit,
which should surely be turned to account now, and
must render the task of providing for themselves
less irksome and more hopeful. The New Eng-
landers themselves will, we apprehend, soon get
tired of maintaining some millions of blacks in idle-
ness, and the South will be physically incapable of

bearing the burden alone, as Puritan charity would
wish, seeing that the whites themselves are in many
parts in a state of semi-starvation.

Mr. JOHNSON, in the Message which accompanied
this Report to the Senate, declared that the rebellion
was suppressed, and that the people of the South
were showing more willingness to obey the laws of
the Federal Government than could have been anti-
cipated. Sectional animosity is, he asserts, rapidly
merging into a better spirit, and he expresses his
conviction that national representation, connected
'roper system of taxation, will result in the
• restoration of the relation of the States
This Message appears moderate and