The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-20

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house resolutions offering sympathy and encoul
agement to such States as may secede from tn
Union, and which had been previously adopted
were re considered after an animated debate bv
vote Of so to 47. They are not likely to be reache
again during the session. In the House, on tn
same day, qualification BILL to set aside temporar
judgments of the United States Courts, was lost
ter a long discussion by a vote of 62 to AZ.
The Savannah Republican accepts the recent lie
ters of Hons. I. Il. r. Cobb and ROb't Toombs, tl
leaders OF the resistance army of Georgia-as It
unmistakable indication that "the wild and incon
sIderate scheme" of immediate secession has bee
abandoned, and course decided upon better il
Keeping with the honor and dignity of the State.
| Madness, says the Republican, has "ruled tn
hour but, thank God, it is giving way to en-
hghtened statesmanship, sound discretion and com
mon sense. The party who are for thrusting Geor
ga neck and heels out of the Union, without mo
ment for thought or consultation, without giving
| our enemies even chance to redress our wrongs
Is fast wearing away, and Georgia is likely, witt
an unanimity unexampled, to present herself to the
world as she is-a proud, brave, resolute, yet
sensible and reasonable State.
COERCION.
| The Rome (Ga.l Adrertiser, in an article on the
| Northern threats of coercion, says:
''COercion." We hate to write that word? Its
| associations make our blood boil.
Talk about coercion; it is the most insane idea
! ever conceived. The South wants nothing but an
attempt at coercion to put her whole population in
| a blaze.
In the Cotton States the feeling of secession is
unquestionabiy in the ascendant-largelv so-a
little coercion Will make us unanimous Let South
| Carolina withdraw withdraw she will, and let
the authorities at w ashington dare attempt cocr-
c'on, and the gallant Palmetto State has not terri
! tory enough on which to encamp the troops OF
brave and loyal Southerners who will flock TO her
| rescue.
NO CONFERENCE WITH VIRGINIA OR MARYLAND.
The Charleston Mercury, in long review of zen.
Quitmans biography, says:
"0ur popular instincts, which boot at the idea
OF Unlon-sayers coming among US, are right How
can Virginia, or Maryland, or any other State now
have the face to invite South Carolina or Missis-
sippi to conference? They would deserve to be
hooted out of every decent society," They refused
to confer when conference might have saved the
contederacy, and would they now come to persuade
US to new compromises simply to save the flesh pots
OF their pap-seekers at Washington Yesl Hear
them, if you please-treat them with civility-feed
them, and drench them in champagne, and let them
go Let us act as If they had never cOme-as if
they had not spOken-as if they did not exist: and
let them seek to preserve their treasury pap
through some more supple agency than ours. The
time has gone by when the voice of a Virginia
politician, though they coo like dove, should be
heard in the land OF patriotic people"
THE FEELING IN NEW ORLEANS.
The Crescent of the 18th inst says:
1t will be well for all operators, or would-be ope
ratOrs in cotton, exchange Dealers sellers and
drawers Of exchange, cotton factors, tobacco fac
tors and sugar factors, as well as all would-be buy
ers OF these several branches of commerce. to con-
slider the question of secession, a division of the
Union, fixed fact, and make arrangements ac-
cordlnglY. We are not aware that any extraordi-
nary change in the manner and mode of CARVING
on our great trade will be necessary, no innova-
tions the old beaten course Therefore. we
agree with the ott-repeated remark, that there
will be no changes in the regular course of trade
We have realized the preliminary movements and
are prepared for the future.
ITEMS FROM THE WASHINGTON CORES
PONDENCE OF THE NORTHERN JOURN-
AIS.
The new Governor of South Carolina, Hon. +.
w. Plckens, who Is strong secessionist, has
pledged his word to the President that the forts
will not be mOlested nor the collection of the
revenue interfered with.
The people of South Carolina will not plupre
their State into war with the General Govern
ment, unless coercion is attempted, ard then they
will act on the defensive. But as the President
does not mean to attempt coercion, there need be
no fear of any collision. Major Anderson, with
his handful OF troops, is just as safe in Fort Mou
trie he would be if he was encamped on the
banks Of the Connecticut river. He is verv popu-
lar with the citizens of Charleston; he is as brave
soldier as the army can produce, and there is not
the least danger OF his being murdered by the Sc
cessionists.
If the forts in Charleston harbor are surrendered
to the State of South Carolina they ,ciU be surren-
dcred PeacedJly The State is not anxious to have
them, as they are OF to it in time of peace,
and there is prospect of its going to WARRIOR the
next year or two at all events.
From the various private dispatches received by
Government officials and others, it appears that
South Carolina is determined to maintain a peace-
tui dignity in all her movements.
The matters before the Convention will be dis
cussed cooy, calmly and deliberately by the wisest
and most patriotic men in the State Even Law
renee NJ. keitt, one of the most determined of
Southern hre-eaters acknowledges the solemnitv of
the proceedings, and cOunsels that prudence NAV
guard them at every step they may take.
The details OF the act of secession will have to 90
through all the circumlocutiOn offices of the Fede
raj Government, and this will take time
In the meantime, from the popular sentiment
which now prevails here, the people will, in their
sovereign capacities, call together National Con-
venton for the settlement of the whole trouble By
the time this takes place, the bitter sectional feel
ing which has prevailed will be mellowed down
reason will resume her sway-argument will be
listened to, and the Union saved and that too,
even if the government has to be reconstructed.
The days OF tanatcism are numbered.
South Carolina members have been notified that
one of the first acts of South Carolina after assu-
ming sovereign position, will be to send Commits
soners here, to officially demand the rendition of
the United States Notifications, custom houses and
post-oifices within her limits
On this question a debate will arise that will
throw all other questions into the background and
an attempt will be made to throw the responsible
ty OF guarding the public property on the Presi-
The following resolution of Henry Winter Davis
has passed unanimously in the Committee of Thirty
three:
"Resolred by the Senate and House of REPRESENTATIVES
That the several States be respectfully requested cause
their statutes to be revised with view to ascertain if
any of them in conflict WITH tend to embarass or
hinder the execution of the laws of the United States
made in pursuance of the I'd section of the 4h article Of
the Constitution of the United States for the delivery up
of persons held to labor by the laws any
Gaping therefrom and the Senate and House Rpresen
that
tendency be forthwith repealed, required by lust
of constitutional obligations and by due regard
for the peace of the Republic And the President of the
United States is requested to communicate these sou
tions the Governors of the several States with re-
quest that they will lay the before the Legislatures
thereof respectively"
If the South Carolina postmasters resign, as
they threaten, after secession, the mails will be
promptly stopped There is no warrant for the
statement in the report made to the Legislature of
South Carolina on this subject, that the Depart
men here will permit the service to continue in its
present form, when that act shall be consummated.
Mr. Holt has no inclination to coude with the con-
spracy and those engaged in it must take the con-
sequences. In twenty days after the secession
ordinance, if the seceders carry out their present
programme no mail will be delivered in South
Carolina, and no foreign or domestic vessel will
enter the port of Charleston. After some expe-
rence, the people will discover what consequences
have been entaed on them by ambitious leaders,
in pursuing their selfish schemes.
The statements that have heretofore appeared in
the New York papers relative to the disagreement
between General Scott the President and the Sec
retary of War, about the movement of the troops
are wholly and entirely without foundation-the
result of culpable ignorance more culpable mis-
representation. The most cordial relations exist
between the President and General Scott, and the
same relations have existed and do exist between
that illustrious chief and the Secretary of War
Probably no man ever pronounced higher eulogies
upon General Scott than pronounced by the
Secretary of War during the canvass of 1852, al
though not agreeing with him in politics,
An officer of the army despatched several
days ago by the Secretary of War to Char lesion,
to confer with Colonel Anderson, in command of
Fort Moutre, and also to convey some additional
instructions relative to affairs at that fort. The Of
ficer has Just returned and reported to the War
Department.
There is no hope to be expected from what the
Crisis Committee may suggest, for it is now a sec
tional organizations star chamber inquistion de
liberatng upon erparte statements and calculating
from erparte facts on the momentOus matter Of re-
storing national harmony and confidence 1t will
| not be surprising if it breaks up without accom-
pshing anything, less it be to sharpen the poll
tica agonies under which the country is now la
| boring.
Secretary Thompson, his friends allege, has not
visited North Carolina to advocate secession, but
| to recommend cooperation Of all the States of
the South to demand their rights, which ifrefused,
justify them in peaceabIy setting up government
| of their own.
Senator Critten den's movement in the Senate for
! the restoration of the Missouri Compromise line,
| introduced from the best and most patriotic mo-
tives meets but little favor from any quarter; for
as the lire was abolished the ground of uncon-
stitutonality its restoration must OF be re-