The Sun. — 1862-11-04 (London, England)

PRESIDENT. Though we have not yet the returns of the most important elections, no one doubts that they have gained largely on the Republican party. if this should be so, it seems hardly likely that they will back the PRESIDENT as heartily as his own party. M'CLELLAN is, however, their General, and they will cordially sustain him. Re, though ho lets nothingbe personallyinterfere with hostile to ithhis duty as a soldier, is known tocarrying on the war as one for emancipation. Like all his party, slavery, as it was, is his decided preference. wherever emancipation tbbienegbis very a eeoprasettiistoreaflaicytr New Orleans and Portinall spßreoyaelctthse well.ne groeßsohth at have worked steadily and cheerfully for wages—and all the predictions of w theiril revenge, murderingreng their masters, and indulging in d haveprovedtobe, what every reason able man knew they were, mere outrageous libels  on the known kindiness and docility of the maligned  negro. They were fictions invented zn terrorem, who commands The Hon. NEAL Dow's testimony,  at Port Philip, we have twice given in The Sun,  and now Mr. J. M. M'KIM, who is conducting the Port Royal experiment, writes thus—  " The experiment has been made under the 'host unfavourable circumstances. The result of a military necessity, it was undertaken with inadequate means, suddenly extemporised, and has been conducted thus far in the midst of a raging and all-pervading civil war.  " The Port Royal blacks are of the worst grade of their class. They are plantation slaves, the progeny of planta tion slaves of unmixed African descent. Gnarled and twisted in body, uncouth in form and feature, they show  in their persons the effects of a century's degradation.  And yet these life-long chattel slaves, dehumanized in law, and degraded, in fact, to the extent of human 'Amer, when suddenly transformed into free labourers, go to work,  and continue to work peacefully, happily, and industriously. "The transition is as easy as it is sudden. There is no jar. The problem is solved. The difficulties vanish. The expediency of emancipation is proved. It is proved under our own eyes, on our own soil, and in that portion of it  where it seemed most improbable. This nation can, when A el  nat em p o seriesr a or yf letters published from a this Southern morning the first O; correspondent, who is henceforth to furnish authentic intelligence from that land of mystery. He dates this time from Richmond, and all of novelty that his letter contains, is furnished by his account of the civil and social state of things there. We knew before all ho has told us of military matters—the battle of Antietam included ; and a Southern paper had informed us of the stratagem by which a dreadful slaughter was inflicted on the small force which first, after the battle, ventured to cross the Poto mac. We knew, also, how thoroughgoing was the hatred and contempt of the South for the North. Indeed, all accounts show that the North is much more tolerant and forbearing in its feeling towards the South, than the South towards the North. What we hardly did expect to hear was, that Richmond could be in such a co:nparatively merry state. Crowded hotels, abundance of luxuries, everything, in fact, we are told, but ice, in plenty. Rather dear, to be sure, they must be. Board and lodging at the hotels costs five dollars a day, although, if the dollars be, what we may presume they are, Paper dollars, this may not bt) so extravagant, after  ever it chooses, change its system of slave labour for that of free labour without any shock to the social or political  fabric."  On such facts as these we have but one observation to make. If the slaveholders of the South are  determined to maintain their accursed aristocracy  of skin, at the cost of enslaving 4,000,000 of their  fellow-men—if they are so determined to do it, as  to be ruined in the attempt—and that, when emancipation is so easy and safe—if they thus prefer slaveholding to life and to property—then let not  England, let not Christendom pity such fiendlike tyranny if it should prove its own grave. They could, themselves, emancipate ; on their own heads be the consequence of leaving the work to others.  Circumspection" Planche  THE SUN, LONDON, TtTESDAY