The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-23 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE,

Tnna DAY.—Morning, 4h. 7m.—Afternoon, 4h. 20m.
To-moußow.-Morning, 4h. 36m.—Afternoon, 4h. 50m.

TIIE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 22, 186
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
62 —highest since noon yesterday.
49 —lowest this morning and during the night.
58 —this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.06.
WIND—S.-Westerly—light ; with dull, dirty weather ;
heavy rain yesterday and during the night.
SEPT. 23.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE'
58—highest since noon yesterday.
53—lowest this morning and during the night.
61—this day at noon.
BAROMETER—DOWE to 29.38 ; now up to 29.47.
WlND—West. N.-Westerly—fresh ; with fine weather.
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THE SUN.

LO;4DON, MONDAY, SEPT. 23, 1861

Colonel FREMONT'S proclamation has created, it
would appear, some little perturbation in the Cabi-
net at Washington. The President, with his con-
stitutional and paternal care for the integrity of
the unmodified Union, his constant solicitude,there-
fore, and that the war should not be a war for eman-
cipation, is not a little disconcerted to find that one
of his most popular and efficient generals has gone
so far beyond the bill which ho was reluctant to sign-
as the Congress broke up. The Bill authorised the
confiscation of slaves who had been employed for
purposes of war. General FREMONT confiscates,
or rather decrees the liberation from slavery, of all
slaves of rebel masters. Now, as in Missouri, the
slave-masters must, as a body, have been rebels,
practically the proclamation is one of emancipation
in Missouri. The Examiner has some severe, and
not unjust criticisms on the proclamation ; it illus-
trates, however, as we conceive, both the real desire
of General FREMONT and the difficulty of his posi-
tion under Mr. LINCOLN, and close upon Kentucky.
FREMONT desires emanicipation as a fruit of tt e
war. LINCOLN does not. What, therefore, can
FREMONT do more, than strain the act of the re-
cent extra Session of Congress far beyond its letter

or even its spirit.
We observe that the cant is still frequently heard,
both in America and here, of the crime of liberating
four millions of savages," and involving all the
Smith in the horrors of a servile war. If the
nerves be savages, the fault and the consequences
of it lie at the door of the slaveholders. They have
had them entirely in their hands to teach and train
as they pleased. The School, and the Charch, and
social training were all at their disposal. Presidents
,have sent messages to Congress on the blessing of
a Christian training and teaching, as the compensa-
Gov for what they termed "involuntary servitude.''
And if, after such professions, with such absolute
power in their hands, and with such a parade of
compenviting for enslaving, by Christianising, the
blacks, the latter are still "savages"—all we can say
is, that those who have left them so deserve to suf-

fer the consequences of their wickedness. The

truth, however, we believe to be far otherwise. It

IA not a servile war of liberated negroes against
their masters which is dreaded, but a bloody and

ft rocious onslaught by their masters, the real

et s?, vagt.s," on the negroes who endeavour to avail

thewelNes of the war as a means of escape from

bondage. If slaveholders in the South die, they
ill per 4h as DIGGES, the would-be captor of

AN DEMON, perished, in endeavouring to reconvert
into .chattels the MEN who had become the masters
of their own persons. It is a question of a master's
war, not of a servile war ; of a raid of "white
" on inoffensive blacks, not of blacks on
whites ; ann still more is it a question of dollars
and absolute power. The slaveholders are mad for
the tight to beat a negro as boys do a donkey ; and
at the bare thought of their " property" using its
feet to run
away. We are by no means sanguine,
plough we would hops the best from the FREMONT
trTMUltsucbmws _
Of woe thing we feel pretty per-

savages