The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1861.

by the people, for the people, and is so declared to
be on the very frontlets of that instrument itself—
there, glittering like a star, is the language—" We,
the people, do ordain and establish this Constitu-
tion," and again it is declared that this constitu-
tion, and the laws made in pursuance thereof, shall
be the supreme law of the land. It is a government
thus established, a government resting on the good
will of the people—that will flowing forth into

practical government through the forms of the

organic law to which they have assented—a go-
vernment around which cluster so many memories,
and which to us is the noblest that ever shed its

blessings en mortal men. (Applause.) It is such a
government that a few traitors, because they have

been outvoted, would overthrow, and would esta-

blish in its place one born of their own caprice,
resting it not on the will of the people, but on sla-
very as its corner stone. The contest is not be-

tween two parties equally divided, as some suppose
it to be, for political power, but it is a great struggle
for principles, for the integrity of our society and

government, between the highest civilisation on one
hand, and the blackest barbarism on the other.
(Applause.) It is not a contest between sections—on
the one side, as has been stated, are 20 millions

crystalised into one great fighting mass, and in
sympathy with these are millions in the South who
are in the thrall of a conspiracy which has taken

them by surprise. And against this are a few dar.

ing men, who, struggling against the holiest feelings
of the human heart, against a Government which
they have never felt but in the blessings it con-
ferred, lead on the fanatical and the ignorant,
made so by the bad system they would establish,
men whose strength was in the political power they
derived from slavery as a subtle element in the Go-
vernment, but now weak in the quality and force
on which they rely, without men, without money,
without credit, dependent for the food they eat and
the clothing they wear on those they assail, with-
out a ship, without a sailor, who cannot make a
sword or a musket, who have no flag which a Fejee
Islander ought to respect ; and these men hurl
themselves against the prejudices and patriotism,
and memories and hopes, and numbers, and civilisa-
tion of the American people. (Applause.) In the
language of Mr. Clay, just used, and I repeat it
with emphasis, "of course they must fail." They
shall fail, and their memories rot ! (Cheers.) lam
sorry for the innocent, who must suffer for their
guilt. The people were merciful and the Govern-
ment forbearing. It was our glory that in our
whole history no traitor's blood was on the hands
of the Government. We wished no war, no shed-

ding of fraternal blood. It was not until fortress
after fortress was taken, outrage after outrage corn •

mitted, hospitals sacked, and the poor and the
sick turned out into a desolate world, and a
fort with its famishing garrison reduced, that
the people sprung to arms for the Government
they loved ; and, sir, as you (Mr. Dayton) have
said, there has not been in ancient or modern
times, such a rising of the people. On every hill
they rose; and in every valley and every moun-
tain pass formed armies which would gladden
the eye of any Napoleon, and are moving with
irresistible force to crush the rebellion. (Applause.)
And, Sir, without using the language of menace, if
there is anybody who wishes well to society and
the human race, let him see to it that he is not
brought within the sphere of the resentment of this
roused nationality and haughty patriotism. (Ap-
plause.) But I must bring these remarks to a close.
I would that our struggling brothers at home could
hear this day our words of lofty cheer, and know how
the American heart in this far land throbs true to
them, and the cause for which they struggle. We
send them with our blessings over the sea; but
what is better, we send with them one known to
them, known to us, known to the two hemispheres,
and one who, in this warlike land of his ancestors,
heard the call of his mother (for he is, indeed, a
child of the Republic), and, casting from him the
urgent claims et his private affa'rs, almost without
warning or notice, determined to fly to the defence
of the flag he has done so much to exalt. We say
to him that he will be welcomed on the western
shore by 1,400,000 men, who but yesterday hailed
his name as a symbol of their faith, and by a count-
less host who then defeated our hopes with, if pos-
sible, at:AM-warmer enthusiasm—welcomed on the
Atlantic slope, and on the Pacific slope, which his
valour won for us, and in the Rocky Mountains,
from whose loftiest summit he was the first to un-
furl the beautiful banner of his country, in the
beams of the setting sun. (Applause) We breathe
our benison upon him. We know what will follow
where he goes before, for " born and nursed in dan-
ger's path, he's tried her worst," We know his
future will be as bright as his past, and that he
will enjoy a soldier's triumph or the sweet tran-
quillity of an honoured soldier's grave. And now,
all hail, Fremont, and farewell ! (Tremendous ac-
clamations, which were followed by three cheers for
Colonel Fremont.)
Colonel S. C. FitEMONT next rose and said—Mr.
President, Ladies, and Gentlemen—l am deeply
sensible to the warm and flattering expressions of
confidence and regard with which I have just been
honoured, and still more deeply sensible to your kind
approval of them. They are very grateful to me, and
I thank you very sincerely. But you will be very
sure that I do not receive them as due to myself ;
I am conscious that I owe them to the partiality
of friendship, and to that sort of attachment
which a soldier always feels for the banner under
which he has fought. (Hear.) To him (Mr. Bur-
linghame), and the other friends around me who
have spoken to-day, I represent the standard
on which old watchwords were inscribed. It is
themselves who were the leaders, themselves who
bore with you the heat of the day, and who have
won their battle gloriously. And they have come
among us here, with their habitual eloquence, to
convey to our true-hearted countrymen at home the
assurance of our unalterable devotedness to the
country, and our unbounded admiration of the
generous loyalty with which they rallied to its calls.
(Cheers.) A few days back our honoured flag was
trailing in the dust at the foot of an insolent foe ;
at present its stars are refulgent from a thousand
heights, swarming with brave hearts and strong
arms in its defence. (Applause.) We drink to
them to-day, our brave and loyal countrymen.
Renewed cheers.) Faithfully, too, have our scat-
tered people responded to them, from Italy, from
England, and from France. Well have they shown
they, too, can cross the seas and change their skies,
and never change their hearts. (Loud cheering.)
lam glad that a happy chance has brought me to
participate with you here on this occasion. Here
in this splendid capital of a great nation, where
near by us the same tombstone records the blended
names of Washington and Lafayette, I feel that I
breathe a sympathetic air. (Hear, hear.) France
is progress, and I am happy to believe that here we
shallnot see a people false to their traditional policy.
(Loud applause.) From here we shall see no strong
hand stretched out to arrest the march of civiliza-
tion, and aid in throwing back a continent into
barbarism. We expect nowhere active co-opera-
tion, but we look for the sympathy which the world
gives to a good cause. We are willing to work out
our own destiny, and make our own history. Be-
fore this struggle closes the world will recognize
that enlightened liberty is self-sustaining, and that
a people who have once fully enjoyed its blessings
will never consent to part with them. We have
deprecated this war, fratricidal and abominable ;
most gladly would we welcome back our people if
thsy would return to their allegiance. We would
bury, deep as the ocean, the hasty anger which
their parricidal conduct provoked. But they must
return at once to their allegiance. We shall
not permit them to dishonour our flag and
desecrate our sacred graves. (Hear, hear.)
They cannot be permitted to dismember our coun-
try and destroy our nationality. (Hear.) We shall
maintain these in their fullest integrity, in the face
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The Hon. Mr. HALDEMANN, American Minister
to the Court of Stockholm, was next called on, but
merely spoke a low welljudged sentences, thanking