The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-12-23

The step taken by some three hundred of the
Medical students in Philadelphia, we conceive to
be unwise in itself, as well as particularly i'll
timed. 1t is not likely to result in any advantage
to them, and it can certainly do Philadelphia no
serious damage. If there a crisis in our political
affairs from which any disastrous consequences
are at all likely TO ensue, they will only be averted
by measures more comprehensive and more mod
crate than those the Southern students have thought
proper to adopt. When the present excitement
subsidies, we hope and believe it soon will, these
gentlemen will find that they have cut them
selves off, and to no purpose, from any
future connection with the colleges which
are supposed to offer the best facilities for
the completion Of their studies, for they will
speedily be deprived of the consolation of surprising
that Others attach that importance 10 their move
ment which they themselves are naturally enough
disposed to give it. They will find, before many
months over that the sacrifices which it cost
them something to make, are neither regarded nor
remembered by the country. The little triumphs
they may enjoy on their several journeys home, will
not be very lasting, nor will they compensate them
for their losses, if any they have incurred We
regret, therefore, the step they have taken, but
cannot blame them Any other body of young
men who had received, under similar circum-
stances, the same encouragement, would have acted
in precisely a similar way. When the GOVERNOR
Of State telegraphed them to come and be re-
ceived with open arms, and another despatch
announced that the citizens of Richmond were
prepared to welcome them with military honors,
the invitation assumed a shape that was irresista-
bic. That Governor WISE should have busted
himself in the matter is not surprising perhaps,
when we remember his proclivity for getting up
periodical excements, nor is unnatural that Rich
mond should desire to have few hundred addi-
tonal students in its College, but we cannot think
otherwise than that it is a pitiful and erroneous
policy that is now resorted to, to heighten
and embitter sectional animosties, and reap
a little profit from the divisions thus created
Such movements as that of the students and of
others who, in various States, have determined to
abstain from all intercourse with the North can
accomplish nothing whatever, so long as they are
partial and they can never become general until
the UNION is dissolved. While men are at liberty
to act they will buy where goods are cheapest,
sell to whosoever will pay them best, and they
will sojourn in the places they find to be the plea
santest. The channels of trade are no more to be
turned INSTRUCTED by the petty societies or asso-
Citations, formed for that purpose, than Richmond
is to be made the rival of New York, by the stu
dents or merchants who are at present hostile to
the latter city. Until the feeling of the country
has reached point which threatens the instant
destruction of our conederacy, there will be pur-
obo loft
ern manufacturers from starvation. We do not
believe the antagonism Of the sections is quite so
serious as yet, although ii may readily be madeso,
and for this reason we deprecate every speech and
every measure that, like this migration of the stu
dents, is calculated to produce no other result
than to scatter wider the seeds of discord and add
new embers to the pickering flames that are too
high already