The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-02-23

G GGnoose to which side he will deGnitiyelv odboro
h bhuS III the settlement of the Kansas onestinn Nv
- liia Is rlsking his northern support bv throw,
iis "hclal influence into the scale of the Sf1tb
@ miie senator Douglas, the able candidate for tbe
LI. LFoioI' on the same question thinks if safe to
oreaN with the Southern party he has bitbo,t - W
Gu ana support the Free Soil party The nn1barrass
lheht OF Nicaragua and its expelled and contnrad in
'auGr lisa new difficulty for Mr. Bucbanan,s CoLino+
worse that it cOmpcls action. bnt te Tnai i
nlhcance Is the old issue between Nortb ord 81
involved in it. Practically it NAV bo Gn'btod
whether the South would gain either voaItb ~
power by any present addition of territorr in r,,
Gfal America The fiery leaders of that section in
ueed make 1t rather test of their riobt To cytond
thelr area than question Of profit from tbe ev
tension. 1hey eXaggerate the importance of tboir
aostIacI rights, and wholly disregard. if they do
not desplse, eXpediency Not single slave nrCGnr;
Gtor has emigrated with his property in Iabor 70
hanSas Tor the simple reason that sugar and cotton
pay better than wheat and potatoes and Kansas if
erected INTO slave State, would contain no slaves
but not the less do the Southcrns insist on tbair
right to embody slavery in its Constitution and
they are driving things to the verge of civil war
rather than abandon this barren provision. Tba
l value OF all the runaway slaves recovered in the
FREE States by the operation of the Fuuitive slave
Law, or of all who may be so recovered for tho an
SUNG ~ years, would not compensate for the i'll
lGehng bitterness of spirit and alienation between
ne TWO sections of the Republic created by the vio
lence done by that law to the feelings of the men f
the North, who regard it as an outrage and bnmiiia
ton, and dangerous besides as it denies tba fIn;
tive any trial by Jury.
FROM the three great movements of the Soptb ,f
me ine psT @ lteen years it has actually gained moth
g' ana ny now identifying itself with Filibuster-
Ism 1t will gain as little. From the States of Cen
trai America and the Isthmus, Mexico will he a
land OF retuge-a Canada without a belt of terri
[or4 III Whlch Fugitive Slave Law can be enforced
ny United States Marshals and the armed force of
the Federation. A planter would see his slaves dis
appear among the hybrid population of Costa Rica
ana Guatemala without a chance of recovering
them; they could fly South and North and find
sympathy, protection, and existence in every
direction. The ''area" of ''slaverv' MIGHT ba in
creased but any number of slaves settled an tho
'aid area would rapidly diminish. 1t is not \
SAFE soli Tor the shareholders: nor did anv slave
;" lT IGr Ghoer walker auspices ever go there
healiy the best policy, if the South would recop
ll|e IT. IS that OF Mr.. Buchanan-to repress all Law
GSS GSS FlIlbuSterism under Walker. or his like. TO
Dptah by treaty secure transit across the Istbmus
y roauS ana steamers, and thus encourage settle
heht ana cultivation by Americans with sucb
means as the country affords; but a conqueror with
slavery IN his train, is certain to meet continual re-
'stance from population which, idle and inert by
nature, fears enforced labor still more than death
ina determination. But, as question of tba rinbt
% expand. and the power of the Federal GorHrnt
hent TO interfere with and prevent expansion the
capture Of Walker has been elevated into a great
party contest at Washington, Introducing some
loVel constructions of international law to evnIon
out of the way Of progress and 'manifest dasti
~" The Filibusters, who have violated il against
he people of Nicaragua, have appealed to it for
protection against Federal interference in the stvIe
II Paulding.. They declare virtually that it isan
outrage on Nicaragua-an invasion of it's tsrrit,r
me complaints OF the outrage come from every
.ody but the parties really injured. They seem
title likely to complain When the police follow
burglar on to the premises and take him by the
ollar :" Tagrd"te, the proprietor whose plate has
'een saved from the sack and melting-pot does NOT
eel violently aggrieved by the trespass nicaragua
lr buchanan aliirms has sustained no Injustice by
he action of the United States force: on the con-
rary, 1t has .'enured to her benefit and relieved
er from Il dread mvasion:" an as '.sbe alone
'ould have right to complain, the case for the
rosecution falls to the ground.-London Times.
January %.