The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-03-08
BALTIMORE.
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1859.

"The Baltimore Exchange seems bent on proving the
truth Of the adage that one renegade is than ten
Turks Ever since it aposatized the black republic
faction it has been teemng with bitter abuse of the
President and other members of the Democratic party"
So says The Union, which straightway proceeds
to furnish the public with what it calls IA few
q words of plain truth" and which are supposed
majesticay to demolish the force of the editorial
we thought proper to publish a week since upon
the reports of the SHERMAN Committee. If The
Union has given, gratis, to its readers an article
of such rarity with it as 'plain truth" they are
indeed to be congratulated the pleasant surprise
its reception must have awakened.
We should not have noticed its comments on
ourselves had they not been extensively republsh-
ed as triumphant replies to the views we felt boun
to express after perusal of the above mentioned
reports Lest our silence should now be construed
to be an assent to the semi-oical propositions of
our contemporary, we would merely remark that
what we have already said on the subject in ques-
ton we do not mean to depart from. On the contra
ny, we propose, at our leisure, to examine still more
carefully, the evidence, and demonstrate at fu-
lure day the soundness of our deductions
How far our columns have "teemed with abuse
and from the absurdity of that assertion they may
e.timate the value of the other ''truths" so POM
pously announced by the Union.
As for the ''other members of the Democratic
party" whom it is charged we have unjustly
assailed, it will be time enough to deal with
them when they undertake to defend the acts
which, in common with other honest people, we
have ventured TO condemn. Concerning the stale
device of banishing all those who choose to have
opinions of their own into the limbo of Black Re-
publicanism, we would only suggest that it may at
last result in the gradual improvement of that
hapess locality, until it becomes as full of respec
liability as worse place is of good intentions.
That sectional party will soon become national
one, if it shall be enabled to recruit its ranks by
the absorption of all those whose freedom of
thought or speech have rendered them obnoxious
to the Administration, and caused their exclusion
from the number of its supporters. But to say
that we have apostatzed, is preposerous Wehave
torsworn no VOWS. We have never been among
the 'many called" in Custom House-nor are we
of the ''elect' among the public printers. Wehave
heretofore given the Administration our support
be it great or smal-as far as we could consist
emily with those principles which are above, and,
unfortunately, outside of mere party allegiance
and, to the same limited extent, we mean to do so
in the future, for there is no other political Or
ganizaton in existence whose leading doctrines
are not repugnant TO our best judgment. But if
Democracy is incompatible with decency, and if,
as party, it is to maintain pecuaton as prin-
ciple, then do we unhestatngy desire to be ''read
aud +l,of,, 10 Go Sc
To say that we only wrote as we felt, in regard
to the disclosures of the SHERMAN Committee,
may be unimportant because we might have
erred in Interpretation of the facts therein set
forth; but it is something more serious, if we
should be able to assert that our structures repre-
sented the sentiments Of ninetenths of the people
of the country on this subject. And this we do
aver. We do unequivocally believe that the evil
dence presented by that Committee has shocked
and disguised all who read it, 10 an extent which
can only be aggravated by futile and foolish at
tempts to palliate, or to conceal the nature and
extent of its revelations. If the Democratic party
has not now the vigor and vitality, which char
acterised it some years back, it is because its
resources have been too frequently and freely
drawn upon, for the maintenance of bad men and
reckless measures. little more patriotism, and
greatly purer practice, are the medicines and
regimen which can again restore its power. 1t is
useless for it TO initiate the soicism of the Spar
tan boy, who concealed the stolen fox which was
gnawing at his vitals, for its end is then ordained
and imminent. They are its worst enemies, who
would screen from it its weaknesses, and applaud
the decentralization by which they profit. We
commend these ''plain truths" to The Union.