The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-29 00:00:00

side. Besides he knows he shall win by dissolving,
if in no other way—they will vote, therefore, for
PALMERSTON because he means to win either in
the House, or in the country.

From the intelligence brought by the City of
Baltimore, up to the 18th, we learn that great prepara-
tions are making by both sides, but that no conflict
has yet taken place. Characteristically, the North
is displaying its pecuniary superiority ; the Massa-
chusetts Legislature having offered partly as a loan,
partly as its con tribution to the war, a sum of more
than £2,000,000, while the Boston banks offer to
take £1,000,000 of the Federal loan. On the other
hand the boastful accounts from the South that their
loans were readily "placed" prove to be entirely
false ; and Georgia has taken the short course of
forbidding the payment of debts to the North ; the
Government demanding the money for itself, and
fixing seven per cent. for the use of it. It is said
the South owes the North not less than £5,000,000;
of which, if the war seriously injures the South, the
North will never see more than a small part indeed.
Reason enough this alone, why it may be much
cheaper for the Free States to collect an over helm.
ing force, and make short work of the quarrel.
Practically the Federal Government has con-
quered Maryland. After all its secession bluster,
after its voting for it by a large majorit3 , not only
is its capital, Baltimore, occupied by Pennsylvanian
troops, but the Governor has called for four regi-
ments to "support the Federal Government within
the limits of Maryland," or to defend Washington.
That is, it will not invade the South, but it proposes
to embody in arms those of its citizens who are
favourable to the Union. The meeting at Wheeling
of the Western Virginians, of the delegates of
twenty-five counties, has not acted so decidedly as
seems to have been expected. They refused to pass
an ordinance for the division of the State of Vir-
ginia, but have called a general convention for the
11th of June. Their reason, however, might very
likely be to act with more efficiency. Their aid
from their position between Pennsylvania and
Ohio would be very important to the Free States.
The Secessionists have threatened Fort Monroe,
but were obliged to withdraw. They are also
bringing up ammunition and heavy ordnance to
Harper's Ferry, which is to be one of the first
objects of Mr. LINCOLN'S attack, but we do not hear
of any other move. Kentucky, by the vote of its
Legislature, has sustained the Governor's proclama-
tion of neutrality, which is, however, itself rebel-
lion, since it is shown by refusing to obey the order
to send troops to the support of the President.
Many, however, have gone spontaneously. The only
important success of the South has been with the
troops, 2,000 in number, which were long left in
Texas unsupported by the Government, and having
been deserted by their officers, were obliged to sur-
render. The real advance is, however, still
with the North. The blockade is now
complete ; even British ships have been re-
fused admission to Charleston harbour, where the
Niagara is stationed; while the Minnesota is already
in the entrance of the Mississippi. With the guard
kept at Cairo, in Illinois, the North would now
appear to have shut up the South to itself, and to
have thrown it on its own resources ; as it has
lately grown little food, we should not be surprised
to hear that it is sorely pressed for that essential
to poor humanity, to say nothing of less necessary
articles of commerce.

On one point the North appears to be acting very
foolishly, as well as unworthily. It sends back

instead of using tho fugitive negroes, who hoping

that the battle between the Free States and their
masters must have their liberation in view, seek
employment in what should be the liberating army.
In Maryland this has been the case. A letter, how-
ever, from the Governor of Massachusetts, to Gen.
BUTLER, the commander who offered aid in suppress-
ing a threatened servile insurrection in Maryland,
takes a thoroughly common sense military view of
the matter. From that point of view, the slaves
are surely one source of weakness to the enemy,
and it is simple folly to throw away such a valua-

ble assistance, as their insubordination will prove

Governor ANDREW would confine assistance in re-
pressing a servile war to those Slave States which
retain their loyalty to the Federal Government.
This would be, now, to :give it to none, since the
neutral States cannot be termed loyal when they
refuse their aid towards putting down rebellion.
In Kentucky, as in Maryland, many negroes began
to escape, yet the adjoining free States had the folly
to restore them, and even to send troops to aid
in keeping down insurrection. In the same

spirit the ail of free coloured men is refused in the

North. They, however, notwithstanding, are arm-
ing and training themselves for the service which
they yet hope will be required of them.
The North will not surely imitate the cruel imbe-
cility of our statesmen in the Crimean war ; when,

in tenderness to Austfia, they refused the services of
a Polish Legion, which would have been worth
any two others from its national hatred for
Russia. If the North refuses the aid of free
coloured men in a cause so eminently their
own, and in which they weuld be so
efficient, they well deserve a doubly prolonged con-
test, and even to lose. We object, indeed, to the
Free States offering to suppress servile insurrections
even in loyal Slave States, did such exist ; but a
proclamation to them that in every State which
resisted the Federal authority the aid of the slaves
would be sought, would alarm the seceders far more
than a blockade. We expect that here will be
the great blunder, the intentional blunder of
the North. It desir2s the extinction of
slavery as a bad political institution, but it has no
sense of the negroes' right to immediate emancipa-
tion. It is willing to choke and suffocate slavery
by confining it to the present States, but not to
confer on the slaves the personal liberty which is
the first of human rights. Hence it deprives itself
of one of its greatest sources of strength, and de-
prives itself also of what would form its noblest
distinction in. the eyes of Christian civilisation
From the day of their rebellion all the rebel
States cut themselves off from any right to
demand respect on the part of the Federal Govern-
ment to their slave institutions ; and had this been
openly declared by the Government, secession we.
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