The Sun. — 1863-05-05 (London, England)

THE LONDON, 191, FLEET-STREET.  A la Reine.  Cotelettes de  resulted otherwise, from the part he acted on tha  occasion. With no authority to demand the counter,  sign, I should have been derelict in my duty had I yielded to his demand." Dead men tell no tales. Colonel Kimball is in his grave, and in default of  his explanations it is probable that the Court of In  quirt' before which General Corcoran expresses his readiness to appear may acquit him of all but rasb ness. But no real judgment can be passed until the  fact be ascertained whether the deceased was or was not on duty. If he was, he was murdered ; if he was not, he was cruelly slain ; and as this point can  be cleared up by the evidence of the superior officers  of the regiment to which the dead man belonged, it is to be hoped that an official inquiry will be immediately instituted. As long as a doubt remains, even the Irish Brigade will not fight willingly under Corcoran, and more than ordinary discredit will hang upon the name of every political general, without education or experience, who, like him, was promoted for other than military reasons. The civil war has either greatly demoralised a large portion of the Northern clergy, or too many of the persons who exercise in this country the sacred functions of ministers of the Gospel are unfitted for their calling by want of education, manners, and Christian charity. Foremost among the abettors of strife, loudest and most relentless in their denunciations of all who disagree from their political and social dogmas, fiercest and most pertinacious in preaching a policy of vengeance and extermination, such men as the Beechers and Cheevers  vhavevhi n which the ee meek themselves s ae nl vde srelhtcsieozoK .00nevs gentlei isitettwnpaerhgtidiocettdtueboaoeemu teachers Woe frnoofs world, lecdefvtehr.ey religionquality of love should not exhibit. Hitherto such utterance have been individual rather than collective, and have sprung in a greater degree from the idioaction of the Churches. But now it would appear syncr a c i e s of the sthusetge:hbieiefsorterhelebva rebellion lef.rt 000 m Conferenceth e corporate as if the evil example of the few had corrupted the many; that the worst passions engendered by the war had communicated, their contagion to btheeeempuelpaits; whose madness ness and violence it ought to be their duty privilege to restrain. No less insensate and atsh ethcel clergy crowd,a a body ad_ clergymenand, oi fn the t h a Methodist presence oof Episcopal ae:s nvtilb.anr nusehiotenet :opt ttemCotthht snhhhhieteahosgpranpecancnreaathariduusvatt:srih.ainetodelbsoakbenasutegjsye:htuaernefoasval fwabotevW:teilniferheifthvaydt ryodaei;eshtl in annual conference in this citty e number of ladies, 8 unparalettaoidtshaoauhtenonuohrenithe uttereddllcbmeseepymudbsqnarryatmoeueeeiinissfstmlnaieetdieuetnngtl bntthivi document inteeeoas.rortsmufnauai eesotstdicrtrri intimately nheceples: siheiypoealabstdeernoyfesedtmersibtrhroditbgtotuabohfeeyeostifindhi_enidtogni ktocarheiehituitatfi u wickedness; that the nationalvlai unhcorniadti;tiothnaatl loyalty to the Government ; that although the Conference did not deny the right of the people to discuss recommended greaetmcaanuatgioenmaenndt of public in affairs,its exercise ; that the conduct of those " who influenced by political affinities or Southern sympathies," impeded the prosecution of the war, was a "covert treason, which had the malignity without the manliness of the rebels in arms ;" that it heartily concurred in the President's proclamation, which el  " guaranteed" the boon of freedom to millions of slave ; that it rejoiced in the change of public opinion abroad, especially in England ; and that it prayed the Great Ruler of nations " to look on our army and navy mercifully, and give success to our arms so that this infamous rebellion might be speedily crushed." The reading of the document was received with the wildest enthusiasm. The reverend politicians rose en masse, and marked their approval of the most violent passages, especially that  .”. Eft ••• - . ... --/ .c/2 -..—G-Z----o'* . ~ iii/ : -- . ieBB:rn;in:;. ---- ...... . . ',41.k i = •if 7,j1,4), 1,1/ . , - f \c: • 4.07.44. V tlijk . At4t Mkirmiik.t I?=7 ay.. Pij Ilap nr ~ , ...... ..tt_, , r",..4 , apt. .4,1:,....5,-,.. r...,..„, , , . . .. _ _.. • ~...-,75.i. it „...ii„,.. -........- ., ki,"'*lN • , o f. oa , 4 ,e . ~.„.., , ki-47 -ti—