The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1862-01-04
a anything calculated TO snoour.

~ The negroes may be bad II AID ms but
.ney are not 40 much below the brut-s 10 whoss
ccrditicn the advocates Of . Southern alliance
would eterna'ly consign them, - not 10 know
when they are beokoned to, and whom thev are
ntddsn 70 bo gone. Let the significant words
Wow or never, --be uttered along the whole
line Of contest simultaneously, and who will
venture to say that the issue may be'
. Nor is this all. The slaves are no politicians;
bod there are men everywhere among thom who
are capable OF making them understand that "
the cotton crop be sent 10 England their
masters vii he the richer and stronger for its
sxpertaiiop; and that II Il be destroyed they
viii Be Az the less able 10 chain them do wn
again The logic Of slsve-grown cotton Ia too
fearftlly simple 10 be misunderstood: and If A.,
what becomes Of the bribe dangled At the s~oni q
point before the eyes Of our manufacturing in
dustry2
TIE rInEs on Mr.. sKwARDs NsrRucrrors.
Tbs instructions sent 10y Score'aiy Seward
70 our Mlnnters in foreign countries, have
draw forth another column of abuse In tho
L.or Ion TntEs, from which No make few sS-
rActs:
Mr.. Seward must preach tho right faith of
loyalty and ,uhjtction. II j. tom the soil a
the Pilgrim Fathers that tho orthod n doctrire
OF obedience must come. The Old World hu
70 be enlightened on this point. II ia true that
We have here several pretty strong Specimens
HAA~o.hNaohA. hurhA ktof rOue Way AM
Austria Ia not behint hand. Even Prussia has a
orced Of sound political obedience. But Wash
tngton must needs transcend them all. To Mr..
Seward Is 1t given TO to ch tire nations tina,
rebel IA always a rebCl, and thai treason IS trei
500 evstmore.
Welcome a saturran roign of unive, sal
OIedieuoe enforced by lcgi'imito powder
ard shot, and by the approval Of all
the governments already established. Greeks
and Romsrs, HuDgarians and Poles Sici-
lians and Venetians, listen to the law Of
right divine proclaimed by Mr.. SsWard, Score
tary 10 Mr.. Abraham Lincoln, President of tho
United States Of America, in this the Seth year
OF hsir independence from the British croSn
We know not how these diplom ,tic rovsli.
hons are taken in the United States. We who
rad them hero, four thousand miles off and
seyen or eight months after date, cunnot help
feeling they arc only too much Of piece with
the oonduct Of the war, am indeed Of the cause
heithsr truth nor persua.ion-At homo or abroad
can never Gene OF a perpetual attempt to i'm
pose not only on tho world, but also, ii possible
on the speaker and writer himself
Ficre IA man who assumes 10 instruct thu
entire human race as to the origin, rights, and
prospects Of war in the u tied ) atos and
whcss cOniiiont assurances IA TO tho Dimensions
and duration Of the war bolied before the
words roach the public. Yet on thesc assurances
docs the argument stand. The belligerents are
not TO he recognized bsCduse they are handful,
End their effoie just for day. Here We stand
NJ the approach Of another year, and tho war IL
represented Ivy two Immense armso-'ogethct
hall million looking ~ one Another across
the Potomac, aud neither able 10 axe the luaS
Impression on tho oiher
THE HFLGtous BoDIFs AND THE AMERICAN
DIFFICULTY.
On tho 18th inst, the general body Of Pro
teHtant dissenting mir listers Of the three de.
n ninations Tcsicing in and abolt tho cities Of
Lohd1n and West Minister, met at the ConHro
gait nal Library, Bloomfield street, 20 'a'e in
TO consideration the present relations ot this
country with the United Statcs OF AmcticE
Raw. Prof ssor Hoppus d. ID in the ch ur
Resolutions were unanimously adopted de-
ptecat.Lg war with America as calamity
which tho body could OF contemplate without
feelings 81 tho deepest sorrow aud Ci1mry
calling upon all Christian men On either side OF
tho Atlantic, with whom their vice had
any weigh, 60 use their utmost in
tlucucs 10 'allnv angry feeling, that the voice
of rcuon and li;iun to not drowned in the
clamors Of passion and earnestly recommend
/ < that, irstead 81 an appeal to 'hc Hworh the
matter IN dispute .houll b. referred ,o aroitra
ton ~ meth 4 more in harmony with Chris
tian prime pie, ard more worthy tho character
Of two great, cnlightcred, and kindred nations
On 'hs fsmo day. tina Commute ~ the Con-
RrI l,-tionnl Union Of England ard W'l,s me-
fpeCllllN Tor ilN 'ane purpose A'u uAN7'il SIM
lar resolu ious Th,y adopted au address, rolat
ing 20 the pro ~ ctisis from English Congre
gationa.tsts ~ churches Of yhe same faith and
order on tho other side Of the Atlantic.
rux ,MGArcASs IN LoSpoS.
W. lind the following in tho TIaSs' city NJ.
tiolo:-
The Americana in London belonging TO the
Cohfeisrato States, manifested satisfaction at
the intelligence on the 10th, Of the proceedings
in Congress, on the assumption that all prot
poets OF a surrender OF Messrs. Mason AMI Sill
doll except vi der compulsOn, has thus bocn ter
minated. On ihs other hand, the Fedora ists
assert that the action Of the Iousc Of Repre-
set ta,ives, unsupported by a CORE pom nE vote
Of tho Seratc, or by any dcclarllion of the
President or the CaJlEot collectively, is but OF
secondary ImpJrtarcc, and merely furnishes
another illus ration Of tho subserviency Of that
body 10 the popul4c".
Those Who take this Wow consider tina the
avoidance Of tho subject in the Pr Bidehtia
message |. a i'r stronger symptom for good thar
the other is fOf evil. They deem that tho Pre-
sident and his adyisers had resolved TO wait to
hoaT OF the manner H. which the . fair had D'eu
met in Eagland ard throughout Europe, and
that, having thus plus u, they Will not be like
W, wien the accounts reach than, to act with
sudden RECKLESS n, ~, ard to initiate, when 1t i,
too late, the style Of tho.e who had had the "a
gacity st the earliest Toment 10 dis AIM theiI
triumph over Great BIihn.
LETTER PROM Mn. CoBBES.
NJ. Golden had addressed a letter on Ameri
can affair, in reply to an invitation 10 attend
meeting at Brighton. He says;-
| AN glad TO hear that the working men o
Brighton are pr,mo.ing a meating on tn
American question. The objec: Of al rational
inen and true pAtrio at this moment, SHOULD
ho 10 enforce upon the government that princi
pie OF mediation or arbitration which was pro
posed Ivy the British Plenipoteutii and sinc
toned by the Congress OF tie Great Powers al
Paris in 1856
Looking at il even with view to praeticS
redress e our present grievance, what o'hC
course ogers 70 good a hope a success? Thu
object desired is TO place at liberty tne gentle
men who were tasen from British vessel.
happen TO bnow Mossrs. Slidell and Mason per
sspally, ard TO the latter ] am indebted TO
many courtcses AZ Washington and although
as the must know, ! can bsve no sympath,
for tbsii cause, few persons would rejoice mon
than myself 10 see thea released from an irk
some confinement.
But assuming that 10 effect this object we de
Glaze war against the Federal States and thu
these gentlemen are in con .eqpencs transfer Il
from Boston Hsrbor 10 TIE interior, does an,
one acquainted with America b,leve that
wtulG bs ps'irie for Englind TO release them
We could destroy each others commerce an