The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-01

wise admonitions of Senator HAmMosD were scowled
at as pusillanimous by the fre-eaters of the South
whilst his views on territorial expansion, with
reference to extending the area of slavery, were
pronounced heretical. Some two DAYS previous
to the delivery of Mr.. HAMMoND's speech, CALEB
CUSHING in discourse, more deserving of common
dation for It's learning and eloquence than for its
regard for international rights, had expatiated
eagerly upon the blessings that would flow from
fbusterism on grand scale, and instead of en-.
arging upon the advantages to be derived from
the use of moving machines, or the cultivation of
marygold wurtZels, had expounded anew to the
Virginia agriculturalists the doctrine of manifest
destiny A little later we had occasion to offer
some comments upon the Mississippi barbecue
speech of Ex-Governor Brown, of that State and
Immediately following it came the speech of Colonel
JEFFERSON DAVIS, explanatory of his Northern
speeches, and indicating himself from the
suspicion of entertaining any very extra
ordinary attachment to the UNION. More
recently still, Ex-Governor ADAMS, of South
Carolina, has rallied to the support of the
hre-eaters. Not being able to be present at a
dinner given to General MCQUEEN by his constitu-
cntS, Ex-Governor ADAMS sends letter instead,
in which he compliments the craftsmanship of
General MCQUEEN, and his strict adherence to
States Rights principles ''Would to God"
writes the Ex-Governor 'that every Southern
member of Congress were as ready as he-G en-
'eral MCQUEEN-is TO PIT the South at once upon Ter
'destiny. The North would soon realize her
''weakness and dependence upon us, and her be-
''trayed people apouid turn upon her Gid7aqses and
'ber Setcards end deoour Mena" But the Ex-Gov-
ernor fears that two powerful motives will post
pone, for time, the ''deliverance and liberty" of
the South, the first being the natural desire
TO share in the customary distribution of the
five loaves and two small fishes, and the second
that patience in endurance which, according
to HAMLET and Ex-Governor ADAMS, ''makes us
''rather bear the ills we have than fly to others
''that we know not Off He thinks it would be
instructive at this time to know how many South
ern politicians "hope to be made President of the
''Republic-how many are longing for Cabinet
''and diplomatic experimentation many are
''speculating where they will be located under
1.-THE approaching census-and what their chances
care of being returned TO Washington" lie is
of opinion that politicians who have realized the
comfort of feeding from the public granary, will
| always be found to have grave doubts whether it
would be good policy to withdraw
from UNION whose history, he alleges,
| to have been one ''of repeated iniquities
and usurpatons." He sees no hope for the
South in The existing signs of the times, nor does
he expect any pause in the reckless career of IA
naticism. lie expresses his belief that Senator
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he said when he declared that the Government
Of this country must be ''either wholly Free Soil,
or wholly Slaveholding." And he intmates that
there many politicians in the South ''who
''would hold Office under GIDDINGs and SEWARD
''from Cabinet appointment down to that o
tide waiter" Unlike Senator HAMMOND ex-
| Governor ADAMS has no faith whatever in
Northern democracy, nor sees any hope for
the South in cautious conservative poll
cy. He prefers that the South should "assume a
'defant attitude and proclaim to her ncredulous
'foe her imperial resources He tells the South
ern people to beware how they daily with Republi-
canism. The rule Of q Republican President
would in his opinion, prove fatal to their instit-
tons At the close of the first term of such rule,
he predicts that they would find in their midst San
'organized Free soil party, backed and upheld by
'the overshadowing power and patronage of the
'Federal Governments" that ''sapping and mining
"would be the process of their ruin," and he
closes his letter by asking if the people of the
South fare prepared TO submit to the state of vas
''salage which will speedily overtake them ?" AS
evidence of the tone and temper of a small but
active party at the South the letter from which
we have so freely quoted, and the speeches to which
we have referred are at this time especially nocea-
BILE, inasmuch as they show a desire to revive old
issues and to keep up that system of agitation
which has already prevailed too long. We regret
this the more from the fact that generous conser-
vative spirit has displayed itself of late among
men Of all parties, and because believe with
Senator HAMMOND, that if the South offers to the
North no practical issue, but stands simply upon
her rights under the Constitution, the flame Of
Abolitionism will gradually die out for want Of
| fuel