, 1864-11-11
lETTER EkOss GOODWIN
SMITH.
Eew BE Looks at .nn1sert In Amextc

Under data Of TORONTO, October Sd. Prof
Goldwin 6mita writes letter to the London
Nszcs, giving his Impressions Of What he hid
already seen in this country. We quote !
part OF tae letter:
I see our Southern journals are 1e2diag
their readers to believe that the struggle for
the restoration Of the Unton Is about to be
abtAaoned from the exhaustion Of the North.
The u'tata Vh,ch have just passed in the
Northern ana Western States. has led N: to
an opposite conclusion.
The Democratic party Is out, and not being
accustomed to be out, 1t wants very much to
be In. Thar believe is as much Is sn7 thing
else, the key to the present attempt to ouss
the Republican Government.
That the wsE Is natioasl. not carried on By
the Government alone, nobody who hiss been
in the country day can coubs Every sign Of
popular participate IN is around You: soldiers
rests and eo!d1er5' h0nes supported b7 Yol-
untasy contributions, aud attended bJ vol
uurter nurses; immense subscriptions to
the Sanitary Conmissi on. md every benevo-
lent object connected "ithtae war. Il is re-
n'a1kaple that, though the subscriptions are
60 large, the names Of the subscribers aEe not
published.
Anxiety Is expressed, Of course, on all
hands, As to the t112ucial prospects of the
country. But the present burden Of r1a-
tion, including heavy income tax, Is. SO ftr
as can see, eheeffuily burma e7en by those
I favc not heard single sentiment Of
atrocity, or even hatred uttered against the
Suu:h. But hare heard on all sides tue ex.
preston OF resoluto determination to make
the South submit to the law. And this de-
termination, believe rules the people,
Let the eo1tn tnbmts to the law, and thar.
Is NO thought bnt Of amnesty aud restora-
tion. Nor does it seem to me irrational to
expect that, when the amblttous leaders Of
the revolt are out OF the way, tha depend
ents whom they hive dragged into the field
will soon settle down again into qules mem
be1s Of the U1ton.
US compared with previous cl7it wars, Is be-
ing carried On with great humanity on the
part Of the North. I visited the other d.y
large cantonment Of Confederate prisoners at
Chicago. These men seemed to me to be as
well treated and cheerful as prison ers could
be; snd this, be tt observed, at time Wnen
the North is ringing with the accounts oftae
cruelttes UNDERGONE by Northern prisoners
at the hands Of the C0nfederates. This same
visit convinced ms that the Confederate
conscriptfons must hare pretty veil exhaust
ed the Southern population, for l saw among
the pr1soners the nlerest boys,
The growth Of popular sentiment on the
subject Of negro slavery Ia manifest. Illinois
1armtrs tell me that tue negro makes good
da5-labofer. s3ldiers-not political geue..
rails, but company officers aud privases-tsu
me that he makes an excellent soldier. The
planter can no longer talk OF the inferioritY
Of race which proves itself 8 match for bis
own race IN the field
have seen 10 signs of diminished prosperi.
ty, except in the empty docks OF New York,
which tell the tale OF the Alabama. On the
contrary, t'ade aeems marvellously active,
and buildings are rising on all sides. The
COMMERCIAL prosperity may be. artificial, ari-
nols has cent. according to government re-
turns, one hundred aud seventy thousand
men-a nth part Of its laboring population
to the war. Yet the harvest ia greater
1han In any tcrmcr GEAR. Its gross value Is
supposed to be four hucdred million dollars
no uncomfortable part Of the national dent
The invention Of machines, which the
dearnees OF lsbor has stimulated, has made
up tor the lose of laborers. The State F .ir
the other day was attended by twenty thou.
sand people, The show Of Implements was
extraordinary, and the highest prices were
given 1er stock
have been in the State only month, md
perhaps am not Al uobiassed observer, but
NY strQ1g conviction 1s, that beneath the
frothy surface of parry politics (uever very
august IN any cuuntry,) aud the shoddy lux
ury OF New York lies great nation, meet.
ing the extremity Of peril With courage, self.
devotion, passionate attachment to It's couu-
an no judge at military matters, but at p1e3-
ent 1t seems ~ though the insults aud SLAM
ters which have been passed on the Atnefi-
cans from the arlstccratic nnd Eeactiouary
press Of Europe we're about to be ans Wered
bV victory.