The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-11-17

RF SAs on PTR So as Maintained and
General Blaze. BY a SOUTHERN CITIZEN Baltimore:
Murphy K Co.
We have received copy of the above-entitled
pamphlet, the authorship of which rumor at
tributes, we do not know how truly to our distiu-
guished fellow citizen, the Hon. Reverdv Johnson
But for the difficulty of believing that any one
who had passed through the tribulation of
trying the bred Scott case and encounering its
antecedents and consequents, would ever willingly
go again within speaking distance of the subject,
we should be inclined to believe that rumor has
done Mr.. johnson no injustice in supposing the
Remarks" to be his. They adopt altogether the
line of argument and opinion which he has pursued
and ably advocated heretofore in connection with
the subject, and characterized by the down.
right vigor the lawyer-ike acuteness, and the
sturdy and somewhat pugnacious logic and style
which develop themselves in all of Mr.. Johnson's
productions.
In so far as the pamphlet concerns itself with the
respective personal merits of Judge Douglas on
the one side, and Mr.. Buchanan, his alter ego,
Judge Black, upon the other, in the "Squatter
Sovereignty" newspaper controversy, we confess
that it does not greatly excite our interest What
ever may be the stake which the people of the
Union and especially of the South, may have in
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stituton Of slavery has been made the parent, they
certainly have but little in the personal consistency
and controversial position of those public men, who
have meddled with the subject for the purposes of
political capital and Presidential speculation Nay
in view of the fact that so many of those very
questions have been dragged into the arena, from
their proper places mere abstractions-cothed
with Fictitious and perilous Importance, and sur
rounded with gratuitous exctements-solev to af
ford an opportunity for patriotic rant and dema-
gogcal compettion-we disposed to regard
the personal portion of the Remarks" however
well and justly it may be put, as rather detracting
from the force and influence of the admirable argu-
ment with which it is connected
1t is great and growing evil of our times to re-
gard poilti al questions, almost exclusively, in
their personal bearing and connecton-to deal with
them manly IN their relation to personal prospects |
ana results. Perhaps there is still greater evil
behind, to which the other may be but corolary-
we mean the abandonment OF political discussion
ana action py almost all, except those who engage
in politics as profession and therefore fashion the
principles and shape the ends, as they noint tho
controversies and direct the conduct of govarnant
altogether in contemplation of their indivduol 90
grandizement or success But be the cause what i
may, the fact is indisputable; and until it be made
the exception instead of the general rule, which it
now is, we must look in vain for a cessation of
that unworthy but perpetual strife and turmoil
which shake rudey and so frequently the pillars
OF our institutions. Until the people of the country
shall learn to look behind every puppet of cues
ton which is raised to madden and divide
them, for the juggler who is pulling the wires
and sending his hat round to collect the
pence, they may rest assured that questions
of the sort will never cease, and madness and
dssension never grow less. Black Republicanism.
Squatter Sovereignty, Lecomptonism, and the like,
would trouble the public mind but little in compar-
ison, it, instead of being magnifed and heated into
fraterna dscord and national peril or the reverse |
they were resolved into their original elements
and found to mean nothing but Mr.. Seward, Mr..
Douglas, or Mr.. Buchanan, and their respective
longings, animosities and ambitions. a.s.s
But we have no room to pursue these reflections,