The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-06

There is an old proyerb which assures us that
ssmen who are born to be hung will never he
udrowned,n and in this instance the truth OF the
sarcasm appears to have been, in one respect eX-
emplified. The wrecked flibusters escaped the
wet death, but the dry one they have yet to expe-
rence Let us hope that in due time they will
complete the circle of their destiny. For the
present, thanks to the generosity of Governor
SEYMOUR, who has acted with prudence that
cannot be too warmly commended they have been
returned to the land whose laws they have viola
ted shorn of all their budding honors; the expe-
dition has been frustrated, and the prospects for
another raid upon Nicaragua rendered gloomy in
the extreme. To add 10 the poignancy of their
humiliation, the ilibusters are indebted to the
courtesy of the officers of that nation-the presence
of whose vessels in the Gulf they had vehemently
denounced, and whose interference with the expe-
dition they had expressed their determination to
resist to the death OF course Mobile receives the
fortunate but un-heroc band with an ovation
Something appeared 10 be imperatveIy necessary
in order to salve their wounded feelings. So the
flag of Nicaragua was hoisted, procession was
formed, and Captain MAURY called upon to
make speech. 1t does not matter much
to know what the purport of his re-
marks was. Whether they were couched
in thankful strain for his unexpected preserva-
ton-as they ought to have been--or whether they
opened with deprecating the censure of bis audi
tors for the ignominious result of his adventure,
and closed with words 'full of sound and fury sig
nifying nothng''-as is most likely to have been
Iol
dispatches of a commander-in-chief, covering the
plan of the campaign upon which he was just
entering fallen into the hands of the enemy, they
could not have created more embarrassment than
this wreck of the Susan on a coral reef within
twenty leagues of the Belize. That the Mobilians
have found any cause at all for glorifcaton over
so lame aud mpotent conclusion, argues, as in
MARK TAPLEY, disposition to be 'jolly''
under circumstances predisposing, in ordinary
minds, to the lugubrious That they dc
honor to lawlessness, implies in them either
laxity of morals or an obtuseness of perception
But whether We regard these filibusterng
movements in moral or an international point O
view, nothing can be more utterly disgracefu t.
us as people, than this continued toleration no
only of the most fragrant violations of our Gus
toms and Neutrality Laws, and the forcible deten
ton of an officer of our navy whilst in the dis
charge of his duty; but of the reckless at
tempts to invade by force of arms the territory o
a neighbouring State. 1t is, moreover, a melan
choly commentary upon our national power ant
dignity to find the Washington Union rejoicing
over the frustration-tem porariy, at least-of til,
schemes of the filibusters, and venturing to hope
that, for two weeks longer, Sir WILLIAM GoRI
OusELEY may be permitted to prosecute his nego
Citations with the Central American Republics, I'M
disturbed by foray from the UNITED STATES
Let us join to this aspiration the further hope tha
Governor SEYMOUR may not, like Commodor,
PAUIDNG, be called to account for his unwarrant
able interference with the passengers of the Susan
and, above all, for his gentlemanly affectation O
disbelief in their lawless character. He has in
fiicted upon them the greatest possible grievanc,
imaginable; he has treated them with the utmos
kindness, and has thus deprived them of thu
sympathy which is usually accorded to martyrs.