The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-27

Inc boston Pilot would have delighted DR.
JOHNSON, for he loved "a good hater.u The
riot has this merit par ercelleace It hates with
VIII fiercely, vehemently England is ifs bete
"oT-lts beast Of the Revelations. We shonld
'nuse' moreover, from the language used by the
"o' III expressing its detestation of Madame
britannia mat 1t scouts the proverbia belief that
curses, like chickens, always come homo 20
roost, for its sentences are profnselv ,oraoa
with maedictions. We are no indiscr;m;rato
apologist for England. We neither like her mis-
doings, which have been many, nor her spirit of
territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT, which has been insa
liable But railing at her like a common scold
is certainly not the way to bring her 10 the stool
of repentance. If curses were cannon balls. if 10
very possible that Celtic imprecations would he
dangerous missiles. But happily or unhappily-
as the case may be-curses are not cannon balls
Ihey are merely windy suspirations of forced
breath, and should be left to those who, ac-
cord'ng to SYDNEY SMITH, follow d" the apostolic
" occupation of trafhcking in fish, Yet the Pilot
benevolently assures its readers that "mauv n
deep, fervent, scathing CURSE is hurled at Enr
land-that "every Irish emgrant vents more
than ten thousand in the course of his life. -
and it sorrowfully acknowledges that, ain
''spie of the perfect Pidy and unicersalty of the
"Hibernian imprecation, it has not yet lifted the
"rod of Divine vengeance" We object to the
perfect piety'' feature; we doubt the "univer-
'sality of the alleged custom and we certainly
do not think it at all surprising that Divine ven
geance should fail TO respond to an invocation
couched in the guise of a curse But we have no
idea of venturing into the domain of Theology.
We should not indeed, have referred 10 the mat
ter at all, if it had not been connected by The
Pilot-not by us-with another and very differ
ent subject That subject is the claim of Marshal
Mcmahon to be chosen King of Ireland. Upon
those claims, as put forward by some anonymous
French pampheteer The Pilot deliberately throws
any amount OF cold water. Not exactly clean
water eithei ior IL CONTEMPORARY calls the brave
Duke OF Maeehul "a French lieutenant with
Irish oiooa IN us VEINS" and emphaticalIy
denounces the pamphlet which has been ,vr;,to,
in his behalf as scarcely better than a sensat;on
"humbugu This too, be it remarked, is COL =.
relation to man who has recently been presented
by his admirers in Ireland with costly sword
Oh! Pilot of the Bay Stale, s'call you that back
''ing your friends? A plague upon such backing"
But if MCMAHON is not to be King of Ireland,
who is to be chosen? "There are many men"
responds The Pilot, ''who have better claims 10
''the throne than he--the o BRIENs, the O'NEALs,
1.-THE ODoNNELL's and the o. CoNNoRs-and the
irish wouie sooner rebel for some royal scion
81 higher lineage, who was born and reared
among themselves, than for McMAHos.',e The
Duke OF Magenta may, therefore, consider himself
put out OF the ring. But the trouble il that
those who are within the recognized pale a. con.
aapgunity fare no better than the ssldier who has