The Sun. — 1861-06-06 (London, England)

OCTOBER. Londonderry Curragh  W7lO WON AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, AND WHO WILL PRESERVE 1T?  Since the initiation of the American rebellion, the leaders in the conspiracy have maintained a system of such extravagant boasting that a stranger might suppose that the " chivalry " possess all the military skill and experience to be found on the other side of the Atlantic, and that the United States Government was a thing of Southern creation, existing only by the kind indulgence of South Carolina and her followers, A glance at a few facts and figures will show how foundationless is the supposition. At the time of declaring their independence, the colonies contained a population of 3,247,000 ; 1,893,000 of whom were inhabitants of the section now known as the New England and Middle States, while 1,354,000 belonged to what are now the Southern or Slave-holding States. For the War of the Revolution the New England and Middle States furnished 174,012 men, Massachusetts alone supplying 67,907, giving one out of seven of her entire population. The whole 'of the Southern States furnished but 56,997 soldiers—a less number than the Commonwealth (then colony) of Massachusetts. During the whole of the revolution South Carolina provided but 6,447 soldiers and Georgia, which, at that time, extended westward to the Mississippi, but 2,097 Southern men. The inhabitants of these States were so nearly divided between their loyalty to the House of Hanover and their support of the Continental authorities, that had it not been for the enthusiasm of the- Northern people, which led them to make every sacrifice of blood and treasure, the declaration that these " colonies are, and of a right, ought to be independent," could never have been maintained, and the signers of that declaration, instead of being handed down to posterity as the most unselfish of patriots would have been known and execrated in English history as the blackest of traitors. Whatever may have been thought at the time, of the ambitious colonies, it has long been conceded that those communities justly claimed a place among the nations of Christendom. That position was earned, for the most part, by the commercial and manufacturing people of the North, by the men whom the F. F. V.'s. and the " chivalrous" gentry of the Carolinas affect to despise as a race of "low traders" and " dirty mechanics," while their ancestors were preserved from the murderous scalping knife of the Indian, and the more murderous rifle of the " tory" marauders, by the fathers of the very men whom they now look upon with such lofty contempt. Having done but little towards rearing the temple of liberty, they come with rash and sacrilegious hands to overturn the sacred edifice, and to defile, the altar. Lightly as they appreciated the benefit of a free government in these trying times, anlindependent pendent nation sprang into being, and wantonly they now strive to undo the successful labors ofothers, cause, the abroad, and no continued faith in their it will continue to exist. Without o, instigators of the vile treason t mustAs it was in down to a sure but unenviable fa.„ rugg_ng li for the days when the colonies were_n spite of the a noble birthright, and wonsit'tsympathisers ith of the South ; so will swamps and on the sa% and support in the domestic foes who feu:du:ls: it be in these perilon_e _or When freedom engages LB the worst foe then, and existence. The enemy is oin f herthe s secondam andvindictive - • e desperate fights with the same, first instance, so in -thethis enemy And, as in the Americanße üblic must fS of the a ooner or havep engaged to institutions onthe Western Continent must e 6stirocilkggais later all those who War against acnisfarinafineyekrmnevfeerotrheoslidst, , awith attendit their exploits at the first, but they ruin and disgrace. Apparent success peopleany wchance v have f a establishingvow registered in heaven that the land that was purchased byfheroesshalAl nmostribcoen. polluted by the thefe blood o feet of traitors.—London