The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-12-17

The latest UNION demonstration in the city Of
Philadelphia has certainly not been of character to
merit the appreciation of good men and honest
citizens in any portion of the country. Unless the
loyalty of the Philadelphans can be attested in
some less Objectionable way than by stoning a
building in which an Aboitionist lecturer is adver-
tised to speak, we think our neighbors had better
let their patriotism be suspected, than incur the
reproach which such lawless proceedings are GER
tain to entail A mob like that which gathered
and ragged around National Hall on Thursday
night, on the occasion of Mr.. CURTIS lecture, is
scarcely in accordance with what should be the
pacific character of the ''Ciy of Brotherly Love-"
and clearly in conflict with the mild and tolerant
tenets of its founder, Penn, If the action of the
ten thousand people who then and there assem-
bled to testify their disapprobaton of the senti-
ments of the lecturer, savored somewhat of mob
violence, and recalled passages in the past history
of Philadelphia, which were best when soonest
forgotten, the course of the MAYOR and SHERIFF
of the former in ordering flag to be removed
which was suspended in front of building in
which Abotionst Fair was being held,
and of the latter in attempting to break up
the Fair altogether, partook strongly of the
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ing was calculated to promote the cause it was in
tended to serve, and both, therefore, were unwise
Once make martyrs of the Abotionsts and their
cause will spread with ten-fold rapidity It is not
merely the Saxon love of fair-play and that
honest hatred Of oppression and sympathy with
the oppressed, which we believe to be part
OF human nature, at its best estate, which
will contribute to this result. 1t is also one
of the perversties of our nature that error when
dscountenanced and discouraged by laws and
governments finds most favor in the eyes of it
converts, and least difficulty is adding to their
number. The history of all forms and shapes of
fanaticism attests the truth of this observation,
which is best embodied in proverb too trite for
quotation. Not only therefore, was the course of
the Philadelphia authorities and populace wrong
it was impotic The South will suffer more
from such manifestations of indiscreet zeal on the
part of its friends, than from thousand assaults
of its enemies. In thus expressing ourselves in
condemnation of an outbreak of mob violence in
a sister city, we are aware that we expose our
selves to that retort which the presumption of a
certain parsonage undertaking to reprove sin is
likely TO provoke Wemay and DOUBTLESS will be re-
ferred to Inc beam which is in our own eye, and
have our good counsels repaid with the Injunction
-"Physican, heal thyself." But the disgrace of
Baltimore does not lessen the shame of Philadel-
phia. We have personal interest in preventing
our cause.-the cause of the UNION and of the South
in the UNIoN-from being injured and dishonored
by acts of unseemly violence or petty persecution
We DO not wish our faith in the sincerity of those
professions of devotion and attachment to the Con-
stitutiOn, which we are daily receiving from the
North, to be shaken by an exhibition of zeal,
which is so excessive to excite doubts as to its
genuneneSs. We want no simulated PATRIOTISM
no counterfeit loyalty. 1t is impossible that Phila-
delphians can take the same pleasure in mobbing
an AbolitioniS lecturer or have the same motive for
resorting to extreme measures to prevent the dis
semination Of Anti-Slavery principles, that men
would experience in an interior village of North
Carolina or Tennessee 1t was great merit in the
Boston resolutions, so we thought-those passed
at the late meeting in Faneuil Hall-that they did
not express any sentiments which their authors
might not be supposed to feel, ana that while they
extended to the South the assurances of stead
fast attachment to the Constitution ard the UNION
they made no profession of q love of Slavery We
hOnOred the men of Boston because they overcame
their preudices in favor of the slave in order to
do justice to the STAKEHOLDER. Our PHILADELPHIA
friends, on the other hand, have we fear, some |
what overshot the mark. They have carried their
protestations fsympathy with Slavery to length
which NAV almost justify suspicion of their sim
cerity. They are so exceedingly friendly that we
scarcely know how to take them at their word
particularly when, in the very heat and fervor Of
their patrotsm-the very torrent, tempest and
whirlwind Of their passion-they have not forgot
ten, it seems, 10 keep sharp eye to windward.
Wise in their generation, and noted for their thrift
and close attention to business, the children of
PENN have ever been, but never, we think, did they
manifest the force of early training more strongly
than when they directed the proceedings of their
late UNIoN-meeting at JAYNEs Hall, to be pub
lished in the Philadelphia Commercial List. and or
dered centy thousand copies for distribution among
Southern merchants! If our friends and neighbors
would have credit for honesty and good inten
tons, they must take heed to let their patriotism
smell less strongly Of the shop, advertise it less
widely, and manifest it not quite so uproariouslv
Fewer pavingstones, Messieurs, for the heads of
the Aboltionsts, and fewer and less TRANSPARENT
bids for Southern custom, and perhaps. we. of
the South, shall respect you more, and not confde
in you less
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