The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-10

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tawdry flights of elocution, and virulent abuse of
political rivals. In almost every State, clamorous
candidates for public favor are on the hustncs
and the simplest questions are argued with wild
vehemence that leaves us in doubt whether the an
diences are wholly destitute of reason or the sneak
ers themselves have gonestark mad Col. PErrUs,
the democratic candidate for Governor in Missis-
slppl, thinking it not improbable that the Repub-
can party may have better success with their next
PRESIDENTIAL candidate than they had with FIRE.
MONT thus oreshadows the course he is prepared to
advocate in such a contingency:
He said he would be in favor of resisting the inauru
aton OF Black Republican President, elected by
uona party on sectional principles govern the whole
country He would tell the people in advance that he
would ask the Legislature fill the arsenal with arms
that we might be ready for the worst"
Mr. TooMBs in Georgia, reverts to the past, and
in telling us what he would have done to secure
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. he lets us
plainly unders tand what he is ready to do in the
future whenever Congress may pursue a line of
policy in which his wisdom or idiosyncrasies will
not permit him to concur. In the following burst
OF bombast we learn, for the first time, the
terrible disasters that might have befaen us if the
the views of the Senator had been thwarted:
Some conened that there was no occasion for the
formal appeal of the Sh section Missouri Compro
mise for rendered imperative by the Act of 1850
1t an unconstitutional statute: and il was the sor
duty of the President Judges Legislature Justices and
ConstabeS to oppose the execution an Unconstitutional
law and he would have wiped it out if it had been sealed
with the blood of his iather Fillmore had de-
clared that this repeal worse than Pandora;s
would have repealed it if it had opened ten thousand
DoXes he would have turned loose the ures of
hecate or uncapped the Internal regions o secne tbe
removal of such restriction
Full arsenals, Pandora boxes, and the f1ries of
HEcATE are now the only remedies for erroneous
legislation, or popular mistakes Vital issues like
those with which CLAY, MARCY, WEBSTER and
their compeers were wont to deal, and which they
laoored with patient and comprehensive intelli-
gence, to direct Alright, are weighed now by hands
tremulouS with passion and criticised bv minds
blinded with prejudice and rage Nor have we
only degenerated thus far. For not only are pro-
positions which admit of long and warm debates
among opposing politicians brought into contempt
by the rancor and folly of those who chiefly have
taken upon themselves to maintain or refnte them,
but principles, or rather measures are boldly re-
commended about whose dishonesty men could
not have differed few years back. Harebraned
fanatics have existed from immemoral time. who
never hesitated to denounce institutions of which
they dsapproved, and inculcate rebellion against
laws which they disliked and they have been suffer-
ed to live and labor in their little and uninfuentia,
crclss, alike laughed at and disregarded. But
strange notions are preached from high places in
our generation. Men who have held great Offices
and who continue to receive the rewards that fol-
low popularity, openly avow doctrines. that once
N lI c-aJ
and unknown extremists. What are we to think
when the Governor of Ohio strives to rouse his
people to resistance against the Federal Govern
ment, and heaps abuse upon the Federal authori-
ties, because, in the discharge of sworn duties,
they execute laws which he pronounces s!cruei
and inhuman P' What can we answer to the
reproaches of the civilized world, if Mississinni
sends to Congress a member so lost TO all sense
of the commonest political integrity and decency.
as 10 give utteranee TO the atrocious sentiments
contained in the following extract from recent
speech by Ex-Governor MoRAE who thus advo-
Gates the acquisition of Cuba:
There were three by which this might be brongbt
ABOUT me rst was by treaty, the time for which in
ms OPINION mad passed, and SPAIN more guarded in the
future than in the past would never permit anotber
portunity to offer itself by which reasonable nraePt
rnnp
but the inactivity of past Administrations had nern
these opportunities to by without awaiting
OF them The third, last, and most probable was bv fill
uustesm ana he could see no objection that mode if
1t was to be judged by precedent as our own tevo
ton would never have been achieved had FOREIGN powr
oeen prevented from assisting us. He concluded his
views upon this subjec-which were holder than ever
before expressedby avong the repeal of the neutra
ity laws " '''o Heo''"i-
Is tany wonder that our national character is 50
dIsparaged abroad, when the press of our country
furnishes that of Europe with an inexhaustibe SIM
ply OF quotations like those we have extracted
W hen Congressman and Governors are apneoI;n,r
N their various districts to the narrowest and
ollndest passions, and are not ashamed TO avov
doctrines wholly subversive of everything like no. |
III cal or individual honesty and honor, how can
we expect the world to discern craftsmanship in
our rulers or integrity in our people? That we
are oitentlmes unfairly judged by foreigners is no
doubt true, but we cannot complain when thew
take as the basis of their opinions the sentiment
uttered by many leading politicians and endorsed
by as many scattered constituencies. We do not
deny that virtue and wisdom exist amonc ne
perhaps, in ampler measure than ever heretofore
and that when critical period, more real and mo-
mentous than those which ambitious demagogues
laly endeavor to create and magnify shall arrive,
hey Will be forthcoming to save and redeem the |
waning glory Of the nation. But it would seem
that until such time comes our destnes are to he |
directed or influenced mainly by incompetent and
unworthy men