The Sun.
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THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

necessity "cotton." Now, when it is pretty clear
that she will do nothing of the kind on that account,
she is accused of atrocious designs on the whole
Republic, and it is said that her conduct in not
forcing the blockade is accounted for by her desire
to see the North and South waste each other in a
prolonged war. In the same way her refusal to
force the blockade for cotton and her desire to ren-
der herself independent of the semi•monopoly of the
South is said to arise from her hatred to America
generally. In fact these men are frantic because
England gives them no pretext for anything but
vulgar insolence. In the present state of the public
mind, as expressed by the tone of the papers, it is
quite evident that there is an incapacity, produced
by passion, to distinguish falsehood from truth, and
a profound judicial blindness, feigned or real, among
the public instructors. For instance, one paper
accepts, or pretends to accept, the most ridiculous
statements in, or said to be in one of the letters from
the South seized on Mr. Mure. There is, of course,
the usual sensation heading,—"English Neutrality

—Startling Development," and then comes an
extract from the intercepted letter, to the effect
that " Mr:B." showed the writer confidentially my
letter about the battle of Bull's Run. The pro-
bability or possibility of the fact is never thought
of for a moment ; it is a peg to weave a string of
lies upon, though the journal in question is au fait
at making whole cloths of these articles without
any pegs at all. On the same authority the State
Department is actually called upon not to lose a
moment in demanding an explanation from
Lord Lyons respecting some statment in
the same letter that the nomme B. and
Mr. Bouligny had sent Mr. Trescott
(who was Under-Secretary of State during Mr.
Buchanan's administration) to Mr. Jeffer-
son Davis, at Richmond, to ask him to accept the
doctrine that the neutral flag covers goods not con-
traband of war, which "is a step of direct treat-
ing with our Government." Another paper takes
comfort in comparing the loss is killed of the small
assaulting column of the English at the Redan with
the loss of the whole Federal army in the battle of
Bull's Run, and finds that the former was 386, and
the latter 480—whence it concludes that either both
were " awful conflicts" alike, or both were " sham
battles." In the same way it is sought to irritate
and excite ill-feeling against your correspondent by
wilfully ignoring the express words of his letter in
reference to Bull's Run, in which he distinctly
stated that he left it to American journals to de-
scribe the fighting, and that he only related what
he saw with his own eyes. This, too, is done by
papers which freely applied the words "cowardice,"
" disgrace," " infamy," and such opprobrious epi-

theta to the conduct of the army itself and its officers,
and quoted the words of United States " honour-
ables" narrating their impressions, far stronger than
any I used, with evident complacency. These people
know in their hearts that I never impeached the
courage of those who fought, but that I did endea-
vour to describe the terror of the flight and the panic
of those who ran. If they succeed in their object I
cannot help it, but they may depend upon one
thing—that nothing, while I have life, will induce
me to suppress what I believe to be the truth, and
that all they can do is to add another to the proofs
that freedom of speech and thought can be rendered
unsafe and dangerous in the land of freedom of
speaking and thinking. As if not to be outdone
in extravagance, some of the Southern papers are
calling out for the expulsion of the Consuls of the
European Powers which have not acknowledged the
Confederacy, and in the face of the blockade, which
will soon be rigid enough, are using the most absurd
language as to their might and power, and the
power of the " cotton press" over all the world.
With the exception of their great success in Missouri
the political events in the border States have been
unfavourable to the Confederates ; but the signs
of dissension and trouble in the North, on the
other hand, are alarming to those who can read the
signs of the times. The State Democratic Conven-
tion in Maine has split on the question of peace or
war, and a great animosity exists on that very
question in larger circles in other States. Kentucky
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answer of the Union men of Western Virginia
to the threats of the Congress at Richmond, and to
the acts of the Richmond dis• Union party, has been
given by the Convention at Wheeling, which has
decided on forming a new State, to be called
" Kanawha," which shall be created or rejected by
the people on the 24th of October ; but meantime
the Confederates are likely to interfere.
Another attempt will be made to recover Western
Virginia, and there is reason to think that General
Robert Lee, the best of the Secessionist leaders, has
been detached to direct the movement, and is now
moving across the mountains from Monterey to
Beverley, whence he can threaten Grafton on the
junction of the railroad communications from
Western Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Mary-
land. The traces of the authority of the Federal
Government in Texas are fast vanishing. The
commander of Fort Filmore surrendered with 500
men to the Texans about the end of last month, and
fighting, apparently with a result unfavourable to
the Federalists, had been going on near Mecilla.
However, I have reason to think that endeavours
will be made to attack the Secessionists in Texas
from a point which they little anticipate, and as to
which I am not now at liberty to say anything more.
There are many questions unfortunately arising
which tend to create embarrassment between the
Government of the United States and foreign
powers, mainly due to the anomalous position and
claims of the former, and, it must be added, to the
impropriety and indiscretion of the subjects of
foreign Powers who are called upon to follow a
strict neutrality.
The seizure of the British vessel Adelisa, bound
to Halifax, Nova Scotia, by the United States'
revenue yacht Henrietta, at Newport, Rhode Island,
opens two very nice questions with France and
England at one and the same time ; for, not only
was the vessel seized because she had sailed from a
Confederate States' port—Wilmington, in North
Carolina—which was not blockaded, but a French
subject, M. Bebian, was arrested, subjected, as he
complains, to personal indignities, and finally sent
as prisoner to Fort Lafayette. I believe the cutter
in question was a yacht belonging to the son of
the notorious proprietor of a New York paper, and
was received into the United States' service in the
time of their need on the condition that the son
aforesaid should be provided with a commission of a
lieutenant in the United States' navy. The seizure
of newspapers by the order of the Government, and
the attacks on the democratic newspapers by the
mobs of the North, the institution of the passport
system, the constant surveillance of police, and
opening of letters, are all symptoms of the horrors
of the civil war in the great republic. The grand
mistake which the Americans have made is that
they thought great increase of wealth and popula-
tion were proofs of solidity and freedom. They
mistook immense material prosperity for good
government. They imagined that the growth of
cities, the spread of dominion, the extension of
commerce, were all the hostages a nation could
give to fortune, overlooking the principle that the
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developed mob violence in the North, and outrages
States, which
leave on the people a stain of barbarism as large
and deep as that which rests on the Slave States
for similar brutal and atrocious
acts. God defend
us from mob law !

AUGUST 23.
A month has elapsed since the battle of Bull's