The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-30
THE NEGRO-THE Tramp earn

In aforetmes-in days of old--when we came
upon the stage of action, the negro, Southwark,
was useful for raising rice, corn, tobacco and cot
ton; and Northward, for backing boots cutting
hair, waiting the table, and for other like chores
generally. The progress of the age, however,
with which it is clear we cannot keep up,-shows
that the negro Is occupied in a great many more
things than we dreamed of in our earlier days.
one of which is utility in all the elections South,
as great hobby horse, he bring the ambitious man
into Congress, and North, as like hobby-horse he
not only makes Congressman, but Governors Sec
retaries, &C., &C. Cotton growing, South, is now
as subordinate purpose for the negro, as boot
backing is North. How to use the colored man
most dexterously everywhere in the political field
is the chief end and aim of the politicians cate
chism. Hence politicians at both ends of the Union
the men of the extremes, insist upon it,-now more
than ever as President is to be made, that there
Is nothing to be thought of, talked of, or dreamt
OF, but the negro, the everlasting, the immortal
negro. Well, let us then talk of nothing else
Let us consecrate life thereto Let us all be I'M
happy together.
We are now led to these preparatory remarks by
certain spasmodic outgivings that we see in the
South. For example, there is a struggle going on
in Mississippi between the Hon. Jefferson Davis and
the Hon. Mr.. Brown, the coordinate Senator, to
be the great man of the State. Mr. Davis is, or has
been, "fre-eater." He went down to Maine last
summer, to breathe its summer inspiring air-and,
cooling off in the fog there, he became rather CON
secrative upon the subject of that "negro" 1t was
spite Of the Abolitionists and Republicans. The
Union not so horrible as it might be. Travel
improved him a little, and the Mainiacs were not
such maniacs as he supposed them to be. When
this news so reasonable to Mississippi, rolled back
upon the shore of the Father of Waters the Hon. Mr.
Brown mounted Sambo ,spurred him to the utmost of
his speed, and unfurled the black flag for the honor
and glory of Mississippi. He ate more fire than
Hon. Jefferson Davis ever thought of eating, and
blazed all red, with the red hot Goals within him.
Now the like fight is going on in Old Virginia The
Hon. Henry A. Wise is one great man there; the
Hon. r. NJ. T. Hunter another. Now WISE the
cratic Wise, but Wise the energetic too, 'went
anti-Lecompton" with Douglas, Illinois, and other
Democratic Congressman, and States, and thereby
damaged his Africanism little in Southern Lee
compton estimation. R. M. T. Hunter, or his
to mount the negro. Wise became suspicious in
the Southern eye, and the fatal mark of Abolition
ism upon him. Aware of the peril of a faint so
foul in the Virginian eye, he looks Southwark now,
boxes the compass, and the following ia his ulti-
matum:
GOV. wIsE's ULTIMATUM
. From the Richmond Enquirer Wise Organl
But we do not hesitate to assure the Republican
that in case the Charleston Convention shall Gre
ject' the doctrine of the power and duty of the
general government, and of each and every depart
ment thereof in case of need, to employ its proper
functions for the protection of persons and property
in the Territories, if the Charleston Convention
shall thus authorize the platform to be interpreted
according to the doctrine of the Lynchburg Repub-
lican, which doctrine the Eli Thayer wing of the
black republican party has already acceded to and
endorsed as the best and most practicable means of
excluding slave property from the Territories, in
such case, we say, we regard it much more prob
able that the conservative Democracy, not only of
Virginia, but of the South and of the whole Union
will refuse to vote for the nominee of the Charles
ton Convention.
There No Southerner now can beat that Who,
for example, conjure up backer hobby p
Hunter shrinks from it. it is said and though he
n n hnapt and har o,ll SO
had his way, so black plank in the New Demo-
cratic platform. Wise thus trumps Hunter, as
Brown trumped Davis in Mississippi.
And SO we go. Judge Spalding lays down his
plank in Ohio; and would not have even a Judge
there, that would recognize as constitutional Fed
eral Law declared not to be constitutional BY the
Federal Courts, and by every high State Court in
the Union, except that of Wisconsin o. and Mr.
Wlse's party won't vote for the nominee of the
Charleston Convention unless slave code platform
in thereon.
Now, it is neutrality-suspicious. to everybody North
and South that the negro is no longer cotton
grower, nor boot black but the great and the only
politican,-and that we, twenty-five millions of
white people North and South, must think of moth
ing else than that omnipotent, omnipresent, if not
omniscient negro? Parties must hinge upon him,
and upon that colored pivot, we must all turn
About dozen or twenty ambitious men South and
North say So,-the Rhetts one way, the Stewards
another,-and what they say, so must it be. And
so will it be, unless the machinery of party is bro
ken up North and South, and a Presidents set I'D
in spite of the machines. The moment, however,
great white mans party is formed North and
South, that moment, then, the machines will burst
and the negro will resume his subordinate social
and political position. Parties then will turn upon
other pivots and other hinges, and we shall have the
war cries we had from the foundation of the republic
until these latter days. When we can agree to dis
agree upon negro slavery, fathers did, the
good old times will come but until then, Sambo
will turn the crank and the machine will grind out
the white mans President Southern Ga Recor-
der.