The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-26 00:00:00

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conquests of armed force in republics will develope
themselves in the New World. The personal cha-
racter of Gen. M'Clellan affords a guarantee that
he is not the man who would seek to elevate him-
self on the fragments of the institutions for the
assertion of which he is now preparing an offensive
army—but it may so happen that he may be forced
to avert greater evils by assuming for a time the
chief control of the State with the consent of those
who are the masters of public suffrage, if not of
public opinion. The dangers of defeat will be
greater than those of success; but the latter will
be attended with enormous difficulties ? Even
the Maryland, apparatus of Government, though
simple and effective, is not constitutional ;
and when it is applied to the Confederate
States it will become one of the most extraordinary
organisations which ever were beheld in a country
calling itself free. Personal experience induces me
to believe that the same spirit, unanimity, and
courage which the South exhibits in its resistance
in the field will be displayed in every form of pas-
sive opposition to the efforts of the North to reduce
it to subjection when the fight shall have ceased.
The Unionists persist in declaring there is a large
party—to be consistent they ought to declare there
is a majority—of the people in the seceded States
opposed to the principles of the Confederates and
to the independence for which they appear to be
fighting. If so, the task of re-amalgamation will be
more easy; if not, the Federalists will be reduced
to the pleas and the machinery of force exercised,
as they contend, for right, but still applied to
oppress a majority of the people in the Slaves States.
If there be a General Dix in every State, a man
capable, resolute, and active, with overpowering
force at his disposal, all the States may be reduced
to the condition of Maryland, and the polls may be
made to give Union returns, but the supposition is
very unreasonable ; and even if it be verified the
world will see with disgust the resurrection in the
great Republic of the spirit and substance of the
most absolute despotism covered with cerecloths of

more cut up with water and rice fields as you ap-
proach Savannah. As there were materials for
hutting on board the transport, it is probable the
troops will endeavour to establish themselves in
a fortified camp outside Beaufort, and if so, they
had better•make it a more eligible selection than
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the 20th Indiana Regiment is to be withdrawn, and
will be a singular weakness if the United States
abandon its barren conquest, but it it now disco-
vered that Oregon inlet, in the same series of sand-
reefs, will permit egress and ingress to the vast
inland navigation which the possession of Hatteras
was intended to close. From the West there is the
usual unsatisfactory and unintelligible farrago of
telegrams. One fact seems clear, that Gen. Fre-
mont's dismissal has not produced as yet any of the
serious inconveniences or dangers which were anti-
cipated by his friends and his enemies. The part of
his career which most became him seems to have
been his retirement, and his conduct on taking leave
of his troops. The American papers contain the re-
sults of the committee of inquiry into the manage-
ment of his troops, and it is not possible to read it
without coming to the conclusion that any general
who permitted such frauds to be perpetrated—sup-
posing always they are fully proved—was not fitted
for the service of any State which could not bear
ruin at short intervals. His successor has a difficult
game to play, and it is to be hoped he sees-what it is
more clearly than any one here can do. There are
reports of two affairs in the West—one, an expedi-
tion from Cairo against Columbus, in Kentucky,
which was partially successful, though attended with
heavy loss and followed by a retreat to their camp,
on the part of the Federalists, after they had, as
they say, taken guns they could not carry off, and
destroyed the enemy's camp and stores. The other
expedition was under the command of Colonel
Oglesby, and " broke up" a camp of Confederates
in Missouri, some 60 miles from Cairo. The loss of
life at Belmont was considerable. This is all we
can learn, except the old news that something great
is going to happen.
" The army in good spirits ; no battle expected
at present." Such is a sensation heading in the
papers to-day, of which an ill-natured person might
say the apposition was argumentative, but it 'does
not, nevertheless, correctly convey the state of this
situation here. I have made a very curious collec-
tion of some of these same headings, as illustrations
of the condition to which a portion of the cheap
American press is reduced, and of the state to which
it has brought its readers. The most degraded of
these journals—one which is supposed to be in the
pay of the South, and which certainly by the style of
its advocacy brings the North into contempt and does
much to damage the interests of Government abroad,
advises us now and then to take it and its contem-
poraries as the only sources of information on which
reliance can be placed. If we did, a more deluded
people could not exist on the face of the earth, or
one more distracted by contending statements, by
the contorted falsehoods of the hour, by the asser-
tion of to-day made to be contradicted to-morrow.
The citizen of New York is quite accustomed by this
time to find that the " glorious victory" of Monday
turns out to be a defeat on Tuesday, and the
unabashed," though not the unscarred " Defoe,"
leers horribly as he hears the rush of the crowd
outside his office after some big lie in a
second edition, and pockets the cents of his dear
public in the full knowledge that do what he may
they will come to him again. It is a sort of mental
dram-drinking—the "sensation" must be produced
night and morning, and so many times in the day.
The poor victims when the effects are over, swear
they will never touch a drop again, but the craving
is insatiable, and at the accustomed hour off they
run to the bar and swallow their moral juleps and
cocktails notwithstanding their experience of their
evil effects on the constitution. Had we listened to
the advice tendered with such delicious impudence,
we should have actually taken Bull's Run as a vic-
tory, the surrender of Lexington as a splendid feat
of arms, and a number of pitiful skirmishes as so
many Vittorias or Waterloos. Many of these
actions are brought on by the leaders on both sides
apparently without an object. General Scott was
opposed to them ; but, in fact, the Commander-in-
Chief has as little power as the head of any other
department over his subordinates, separated by
thousands of miles from him. If he wants the
power he must take it. It is announced in the
papers that Major-General Havelock, of the British
army, has tendered his services to the President,
and that Captain Short, R.N., has been equally
kind to Mr. Jefferson Davis. The rank of the
former gallant officer, of whom, as brother of Sir
Henry and uncle of the presentbaronet, one wishes
to speak with every respect, must have been be-
stowed by some foreign Power or an unrecognised
brevet. The latter officer is unknown to fame on
the Navy List. But what of that ? One man is
as good as another ; so is one story as bad as another.
As a charming specimen, however, of the manufac-
turing ingenuity in that line of some of your con-
temporaries, take the veracious statement that Lord
Lyons received Mr. Semmes, captain of the Sumter,
in the Confederate navy, gave him an English pass-
port, and introduced him to Mr. Seward at the State
Department !

NOVEMBER 9.

There is moderate exultation over the votes in
Maryland. The result gives the Federalists a
clear working majority in the Legislature and
State Government, and would dispose of all pre-
tence that there is a numerical majority for Seces-
sion if the voters had been uninfluenced in any
way. Kentucky, Missouri, and Virginia subjected
to the same process might produce the same
results, and if they could be put under it there are
thousands of Unionists who would be content to
withdraw from the contest, and leave the other
States to their own devices. The departure of Mr.
Thurlow Weed and Bishop Hughes for Europo
is in pursuance of the resolution, the existence of
which I announced in a previous letter, to send un-
official ambassadors or representatives to England
and France to counteract the effects of Mr. Mason
and Mr. Slidell's mission and to make explanations,
and enter upon negotiations with the two Govern-
ments as well as to sound the depths of popular
feeling, and ascertain the views of leading men in
the political world. There were several candidates
for the important mission. Mr. Everett appeared
in Washington and had several interviews with
Mr. Seward about the time the project was started,
and Bishop M'llwaine and Mr. Kennedy were men-
tioned as coadjutors in the mission. Whatever the
causes, these gentlemen did not go, but Mr. Weed
and Bishop Hughes, two of Mr. Seward's best
friends, faintly disclaim the notion that their voyage
to Europe is on diplomatic business. The former
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NOVEMBER 11,

Unless the Confederates obtain a signal success at
Beaufort and force the Federalists into the sea it
is plain they have been placed in a hazardous posi-
tion. The end of the wedge will have been driven
into " the peculiar institution" in its softest place.
In those Sea Islands live vast populations of igno-
ntnt negroes, subject to tile scanty and scattered