The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-11-05
BALTIMORE.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1858.

making a speech. 1t was not much OF a speech
II did no honor to the man who made it, but it
was n speech, nevertheless, and the Boston AdUer
,eer has published it, and commended it, and tells
ne If ought to be read and pondered. Well, we
have read it, and pondered over it, and were we
10 express the conclusions we have reached they
would be by no means fattering, either to Senator
WILSON or to his laudators. 1t was at Marble
head he spoke, and it was to the Cod6shers and
Cordwainers of that rocky peninsula that he
dertook to submit few practical suggestions,
touching their duties to the country in general,
and to the State of Massachusetts, in particular.
Here was q theme worthy of an orator. 1t was
susceptible of any amount of expansion, and ad
mit,ed of the introduction of all that interesting
array of patriotic fourishes in which stump
speakers are wont to luXuriate Nothing could
have been more pertinent to the occasion than
happy illusions to the Pilgrim fathers, to Ply
mouth rock-to Concord and LeXington-to Bun
kers Hill and Faneul Hall. Over such colonial
and revolutionary incidents Senator WILSON might
have spread himself and he would have neen par
doned if, in doing So he had thrown back his
coat, and tucked his thumbs into the arm-holes
of his waistcoat But historical references are
becoming trite, and Senator WILSON disdains to
he trite. They are only daintily handled by
scholars, and Senator WILSON is no scholar They
admit of appeals to the nobler sentiments of mems
natures but Senator WILSON prefers to excite their
passions and their preudices. In his opinion, the
duties of the villagers of Marbehead may be
summed up in five monosylabic words-''They
must hate the South" 1t is his patent cure-all-
his panacea-hs universal remedy for all the ills
and msfortunes of life. He tells the catchers of
Cod if they desire in deep sea-shing, they
must hate the South-if they would not have the
bait slip from their hooks, they must hate the
Soulful they would not have the Cod spoiled in
the curing, they must hate the South. He ad-
monshes the Cordwainers, that their wax will
lose its adhesive properties-their avis become
blunted-their lapstones brittle, and their pegs
worthless-if they do not hate the South With
Senator WILSON, the South is a haunting Presence
aideous Nightmare. 1t the Skeleton at the feast
the Poison in the bowl-the Cloud athwart the sun
the Bravo at the corner-the Indian in the bush
the Tiger in the path-the inevitable b9te noir
He assures his Codfishing constituents that there
are at the South three hundred and fifty thousand
slave holding observation-disclosures every man of
them. They have never caught Cod or pegged
shoe in their lives. In fact, they dom t like Cod
and are even ignorant of Chowder We are
moreover, informed that in addition to the oil
garchs-the population of the South consists of
five millions of degraded non-slave holding whites,
and four millions of chained and abject bondmen
that in fifteen States of the Union, the slave
holding aristocracy has coven down the constitu-
tional rights of free speech and a free press and
rules absolutely, in the free States, as the
monarch upon any European throne. Let the Cod
fishers look to t-let the Cordwainers think of it
reflect upon it. This terrible oligarchy yelled in
thunder freighted clouds might swamp their fish
ing boats, tangle their lines, blunt their fishing
hooks knock out the bottoms of their salt watts,
scatter TO the winds their curing sheds, punch
holes in their upper feathers, make baby canoes of
their lasts and give their balls of thread and their
bundles of brstles to the winds and waves of the
Massachusetts Bay. Here even here, in 'our
Commonwealth of free speech, free press and free
'labor, where all men ought to think alike; but
'alas, my friends" adds the responding Senator,
drawing the back of his hand across his eyes to
clear them from the rising moisture, ''even on the
''so of Massachusetts, and under institutions the
foundations of which were laid in prayers and
"tears y | regret to say that there are men who
are obstinately selEopinonated. They won't
think as l do-they will sustain their constitu-
tional obligations, and they actually had the
audacity ''to coldly fold their arms" when the
storm of battle swept over the country-FvERETT
and CHoATE, and WINTHROP and CUSHING and
RUSSELL, and OTIs, and LoRNG, all of them degen-
crate sons of Massachusetts, 'coldly folded their
EARNS and looked ON while we fought the battles
of Kansas, taking no part with u.s. ''When the sun
'roSe on the morning of the lst of January, 1858,
Tits beams fell upon territory beyond the Missouri
'riVer of five hundred thousand square miles, and
THAT territory had engraven upon it the sacred
words-'Slavery shall be- and is, forever prohb-
ted The slave power looked upon that ter
'ritory nth hungry eyes. It,'-but we have no pa
thence to follow this Senatorial Mountebank in his
showmanlike description of scenes and incidents in
which he himself and ANsoN BuRLINGAME are made
to occupy the foreground of every picture, and to
figure conspicuously as fighting men of the first
quality, whilst as he reiterates some half dozen
times, the greater number of their Congressional
associates 'folded their arms and looked coldly
"on." Here is Senator who is sworn to legislate
not for a section of the Union, but for the whole
of the Coneerated States, striving to excite section
al luminosity by appeals to the narrow bigotry and
tanaticlsm of his auditors, and by resort to all
the low arts and the disgraceful chicanery that is
common to the meanest and most INSCRIPTIONS
OF demagogues. He cannot see throughout the
whole of the Southern States the least evidence of
virtue honor, honesty, or patriotism All that he
can perceive is "a slaveholding arstocracy; five
millions of degraded non-saveholding whites
land four million of bondmen clinking their
''chains." There was a time when Massachusetts,
was honored in her statesmen; but the selection of
such man as this to represent her in the National
Councils indicates, unhappily, how profoundly her
people have become vitiated by the fanatica teach
lngs of the Abolionists, and how lightly they are
disposed TO regard their Constitutional obligations
when those obligations are at variance with their
own contracted views
The Baltimore American-consisent only in its