The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-26

this community was held so long in vassalage of
shame and day after day some striking fact illus
trates, more and more the universally of our reac
ton into sefrespect and good government.
The New York Tribune is not altogether I'M
known in this locality. While It's circulation in
Maryland has always been limited, the people of
this State familiar with its character
and antecedents with those of most of the jour
nails published in our city. Though at times con-
Quoted with marked ability, public attention has
been drawn to it, rather on account of the pecu-
liar and eccentric views it has ordinarily advoca-
ted, than because of the soundness vigor of the
arguments by which it has maintained them. All
the moral, political and religious theories that
were too filthy, or fantastic or extreme, to be de-
Tended elsewhere, have found favor in the eyes Of
Mr.. HORACE GREELEY. Fourierism, and free
love-abolionism, and woman s-rghts, and
score of other radical or indecent 'isms' of kim
dred nature have been openly vindcated or indi-
rectly encouraged through the columns fhis paper
1t seems, indeed, as if the Tribune had been orlgi-
nally established as channel through which the
impurities that were stagnating in obscure places
surface of society Like hydropathic practition,
er, GREELEY has regarded every fostering spot
upon the body polite as favorable symptom,
and he expects to regenerate humanity by first
rendering it loathsome. But Of all the moral and
political vagaries with which the philosopher of
the Tribune has concerned himself, those which
touch the slavery question have been the most alb
sorbing. He has never suggested any practical
plan whatsoever for the abolition of slavery in this
country, nor has he, so far as we know, ever man
Tested his love for the blacks otherwise than by
cursing and vilifying the whites. His philan-
thropic labors in this line, however, have been
constant and effective. If any one will glance
through the files of the Tribune he will find that
from the time when it was founded down to the
present day, it has done everything in its power
to stir up discomfort and sedion in the South, to
fan the flames Of fanatcism in the North and to
Sow hatred and discussion between the people OF
those TWO sections of the country. 1t has over and
over again made use of arguments and expressed
sentiments which, if they meant anything, were
intended to show that a serve Instruction was
iustifable aud that the blood and rapine which
would ensue, were events which the STAKEHOLDER
was bound TO look forward to as the natural conse-
quences of his position. has denounced with the
most opprobrious epithets the men and women who
hesitate TO repudiate institution which they did
not establish and which they have been taught
from childhood to regard as lawful, and not un-
just, and which they could not at once get rid of
even if they desired to subvert it. 1t has appealed
to the bgotry of aboitionists in the North and to
tba If hold in tbp
has urged both classes to unite and at every haz-
ard to revolutionize the political system of the
latter section 1t has instigated men to resist the
execution of the fugitive slave law in the free
States and has palpably encouraged them to as
sail, with arms in their hands, their brethren Of
the adjoining slave States; for though, after his
expedition failed it family disapproved of JOHN
BRowN's proceedings, it did him homage as the
martyr, saint and hero, Of the age, and it con-
tinually magnified the cause for which he died.
Such has been, from first to last, the of the
New York Tribune. We do not now remind our
readers of these facts for the purpose of inaming
their minds against the incendiary journal, but we
refer to its past history simply as the standard by
which we think the public ought to test the integ-
rity and value of GREELEY's present professions
and promises. In order to forward the election of
Mr.. LINCOLN the paper in question has, like most
of that candidates supporters, disclaimed vehem-
emily all feeling of hostility to the South, and any
thing like wish intention to interfere with its
constitutional rights. 1t has even assumed an air
of injured innocence. 1t is indignant because it
has been classed among the fanatics and despising
alike consistency and truth, it has the audacty to
claim to be ranked among the opponents of aboli-
tionsm. Complaining of those who confound the
Republicanism as taught in the Tribune with the
tenets of the ulra-abotion school, it observes in
the most selfcomplacent way Imaginable:
Every ntempera illumination of the Garrison Ger
t Smith Aboltioni sts who are our deadly enemies is
though other party hates and maligns much
these Garrison Abolitionists do"
GREELEY is possibly we'll satisfied to repudiate GAR
RIsoN and SMITH now, and forswear their company
forever Having made himself known and infiu-
entail by pandering to the fanaticism of which
they continue to be the chief apostles he may be will
ling TO forego further innovations if he is permit
ted to enjoy in quiet the fruits of former trumphs
But he cannot by thus summariiy dismissing the
two above named worthless, destroy the record of
the alliance that so long existed between him and
them. He cannot by protesting that his views are
and patriotic now, cause men to for
get the undeniable fact that he is as much as any
other single individual responsible for the increase
of the andsIavery agitation and for the existence
now in the Southern States of the excitement and
alarm at which he sneers. Nor are the structures
of the Tribune upon what it calls the 'treign of
terror" at the South, less nsolent and uncaed-for
fbon he
that have been adopted in the Slave States. Says
the Tribune: M
We are Systematically denied hearing in those States
our newspapers destroyed by mob dictates violation
of the Rights of Property, OF which adversaries
speakers assailed and sienced-even natives and life
long citizens of Slave States robbed of their possessions
and hunted into exile because of their Republican faith
while rbald and lcentious press habitualy fills the
Of the South with charges against of every crime
every abomination and every infamous purpose"
Now if the South has, in the excitement of the
moment or out of superabundant caution, taken
stringent steps to protect itself than the exi-
gency of the occasion requires, it has, we aver,
been induced to assume a defiant attitude solely
because OF the aggressive position which the abo-
ton party has lately occupied But a little while
ago papers and pamphlets were delivered by the
cart load at the post offices in the South. and no
one asked whence they came, or what m;gbt be
the nature of their contents. The slavery question
was freely debated by the people of the several
States whenever and wherever they thought proper
IN discuss it, What has wrought the change in
this respect which we are compelled to recognize,
but the violence with which the topic has been
handled by the abolition party and the abolition
press The Southern people could not be blind
IL oil ala lie thar,