The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-06 00:00:00

THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1861,

Manchester must now set her house in order.
Long has she dealt very gently with American
slaveholders; they supplied her with cotton at the
cost of robbing three or four millions of human
beings of every right which makes it worth while
to be a man, yet Manchester not only was silent
herself, but was angry with all who denounced the
" Domestic Institution." Not only did she look
upon " Abolitionists" Lin the Free States, as little
short of rebels, and even try to get up a cant cry
of Atheism against them, because they claimed for
black men the Christian rights which the churches
and clergy of America denied them ; but, as tee
have reason to remember, if liberal journals
spoke freely of the injury done to the cause of
free Government and of Christianity, by the
inconsistent atrocity of American slavery in a free
and professedly Christian land—by its then organ,
Mr. BRIGHT, such journals were reviled as inter-
meddlers, as breeders of between nations,
and the like. For our part, we have never, like
the great orator, cared about the good-will of slave-
holders, least of all of American slaveholders.
However, what they really are must now be appa-
rent to Manchester itself. For no tangible cause
whatever—simply because one election proved that
the North would not allow them, being but a
minority, for ever to select the Sovereigns of
the country, and to fill every office, even the
supreme bench of justice, with their parti-

sans—for no other cause, without one in-
justice done them, they secede—break up the
Union and plunge the country into war. Their
one object is, the infernal one, of the supremacy of
pro-slavery institutions. They have chosen to do
battle for the most inhuman of institutions ; but,
in doing so, if they have not shocked the philan-
thropy of Manchester they have at least shocked
her cotton sensibilities, and Manchester must be
awake in time. If she does not see to it, that her
agents go forth to all cotton-growing countries, to
India especially, and stimulate production for the
very next crop, if she does not look to saw-gins, to
cleaning, packing, and conveying to the nearest

ports, she will most likely find tha

in the next season American cotton will
fail her. War will have interfered with the
cultivation ; a slave insurrection may have
stopped it altogether ; or at best, a vigorous blockade
may have piled up the cotton bags in Southern
warehouses, perhaps have converted them, as in the

late war, into extempore defences.
One thing is now certain, our anticipations have
been but too correct. The North is roused as one
man. All parties coalesee to resist and revenge
Southern insults. Democrats shake hands with
abolitionists and free-soilers. Merchants and Cham-
bers of Commerce meet and vote warlike resolutions.
Lawyers even meet and offer gratuitously to trans-
act the business of such of their member as may
leave home with the Militia to defend the
capital and chastise the South. New York
City, of all places in the Union,—the city
which did millions annually in Southern trade,
which was supposed to be as bound up with slavery
as New Orleans itself, is in one flame of excitement
since the attack -on Fort Sumter. An interesting
letter from an able correspondent of a contempo-
rary, will give our readers the views of an eye-
witness on the almost unparalleled indignation and
zeal for action which has been aroused in the North
by the conduct of the Southerns. If the President's
war proclamation was cold and hesitating, not so
has been the response to it. Regiments of militia
put themselves at once in march ; regiments of
citizens, in which not only working men but the
sons of professional gentlemen, and wealthy persons,
serve even as privates. Three days after the news
of the attack of the Baltimore mob on the Massa-
chusetts regiment sufficed to convert New York
from a great commercial toy, n into a great camp.
From all we can gather, Washington does not
immediately appear to w
be threatened, but none can
tell what may occur there in a few days. It lies in
its own little ten miles square on the River Poto-
mac, in Maryland and Virginia. It could be shelled
from the Virginian side of the river ; and the
heights on that side are not protected by military
works. Maryland is unwilling that the Federal
troops should march through the little territory
intervening between Washington and Pennsyl-
vania, but the PRESIDENT will take French leave
for them; and, if Baltimore does not like their pre-
sence, will march then by the shortest country route.
Washington is of no strategical value, but the
North will never abandon the capital to the South
and the rival President,, with9rit ft otruggie; And