The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-19

ana records OF Court sOme Of the latter containing
important history of South Carolina while vet a
Colony, which it is my duty and intention safely
10 Keep until this State. having withdrawn from
her present unhappy alliance (at a short day,
hope)j will then turn them over to her, or any
agent or officer whom she may please to appoint.
Henry Y. GRAY,
Cierk oil U. ). Courts for South Carolina
From the Mercury1
A FLORIDA MINUTE NAN
A Florida Minute Man has arrived in Charleston
charged to the Mercury office. All gentlemen who
are disposed to learn what Florida can do had bet
ter can and pay him visit at our office tomorrow
morning. He will remain in town for some davs
A stalwart fellow he is-dangerous and desperate
IN appearance. In fact, it takes man of pretty
strong nerves to approach him. He bears upon
MS persorthe dangerous insignia, ''noH me tan
gere.' His very presence, we confident, would
make a Black Republican quake in his shoes
oeek and handsome he is in his outward dress, yet
W what might well be called an "ugly customer."-
lie is here to be seen. None need have any deicacy
upon the subject
lie is, in short good representative of the spirit
ana prowess OF that gallant young State South
Carolina is proud of her daughters for she does in
ueeu clalm FLORIDA as one Of her fairest children
Nearest to her in her affections her Youngest child
VIII succor the parent State in the hour of need.
heart to heart and hand to hand.
From the Courier
THE BADGES OF LOYALTY.
The scarlet cockade and steel button, of which
we spoke yesterday, has, we learn been u unanimous.
ly adopted by the Edgefeld Rifemen and is now
pledge by them to resist Black Republican rule
in or out of South Carolina The motto is ''BIood
and Steel,-a reliable cure for present troubles.
We noticed yesterday quite number of gentle
men wearing plain blue silk ribbon on the coat
lapel. The Palmetto tree, the lone star and the
the badge.
From the NstgsJ
THE SPIRIT OF MARYLAND
According to order and request, palmetto tree
drawn in colors by Col E. B. White was sent to Bal
timore on Thursday by a mercantile house of this
city Adams Express was charged with the trans
mission of this handsome token of amity and friend
ship. 1t will be placed, as we understand, along
side OF the Colonial Flag of Maryland.
THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
The Macon Journal and Messenger SAYS: Should
the Legs lature of Georgia call State Convention
we presume but little will be done prior to its meet
ing by that body, for the members will hardly
waste their time and the public money in passing
laws that will be useless the moment the State Sc
cedes Even the new Code will be labor lost We
may therefore anticipate an early adjournment.
HON. STEPHEN A: DOUGLAS AND THE
CRISIS.
On Tuesday last note, numerously signed by the
leading men of New Orleans, requesting Mr.. Doug
las to address the citizens in public meeting, at
such time as he should name. was presented to him,
to which he replied as follows:
Gentlemen: our request to address the citizens of
New Orleans con the present condition of the af-
fairs of our country has just been placed in my
hands An invitation so numerously signed by the
most eminent business men OF this great commercial
city implies Il compliment which | duly appreciate
and am exceedingly reluctant to decline.
These are not the times for patriotic men to affect
Indifference, or to degenerate into despondencv or
to rush madly into violent and extreme measures
just IN proportion as our common country is envi-
roned with peril, it becomes the imperative duty of
every patriot IN the land to increase his efforts and
exert his utmost powers and energies to rescue the
Republic from the disasters which threaten its in
tegrity.
No man in America regrets the election of MIR
Lincoln more than | do; none made more siren
u0us eXertions to defeat him; none differ with him
more radically and irreconcilablv upon all the
great issues involved in the contest. But while
say this am bound, a good citizen and law
abiding man, to declare my conscientious c0nvic-
tiOn that the election of any man to the
Presidency by the American people, in accordance
with the Constitution and laws, does not of itself
furnish any just cause or reasonable ground for
dissolving the Federal Union.
1t is not pretended, as far as am informed, that
any provision of the Constitution has been violated
in the rcoont election 70 act has been done which
impairs destroys the constitutional rights of any
State or citizen. Nothing has vet occurred to re-
lease any citizen from his oath of fidelity to the
Constitution of the United States which is the su-
preme law of every State and of every citizen
But while it is conceded that no act has vet been
done which impairs the rights or endangers the
peace anu SAFETY OF any portion OF our country, it
is apprehended that the election of Mr. Lincoln
carries with it the assurance that the policy and
principles OF the party by which he was elected
VIII prevail ana De carried INTO practical elect IN
every department OF the Federal Government, and
thereby will endapger the peace and safety of the
slaveholding States. Is this apprehension well
founded? DO the results OF the recent election
justify this apprehension?
The President can do nothing except what the
law authorZes Ills duty Is to see the laws faith
m cd hn lie IN l,E,-I
will soon find himself prisoner before the High
Court of Impeachment. Fortunately that tribunal
is so constituted as to command the confidence of
the people OF the entire South, as well as of the
conservative men of the North. We have this se-
curity that the existing laws will be faithfully exc
cuted. have yet to learn that the people of the
South complain of the acts of Congress now on the
statute book, upon the subject Of slavery, appic
able to the States or the Territories, to the Dis
trict of Columbia. These laws were enacted, main
ly, if not entirely by the Joint action of the conser
vative members of the North and South, in opposi-
tion to the Aboitionsts and Free .soers, and have
been acqulesced in by the Southern people as well
as by their Senators and Representatives, under
the present and preceding administrations of the
Federal Government.
Consequently, it is fair to presume that the South
so far from demanding the repeal of the existing
laws upon the subject of slavery essential to her
safety and equality in the Union, will insist on their
being retained upon the statute book, and faith
fully executed. Nor are we permitted to infer that
the Southern people require any additional legsla-
ton by Congress on this subject, for the reason
that the Southern Senators and Representatives
have not introduced and advocated any changes in
the existing legislation upon the slavery question
under the present Administration, and that of Mr..
Pierce, when the Abnlitionists and Free-sOlers
were in the minority in both Houses of Congress.
Assuming, therefore, that the Southern people
and their Senators and Representatives deem their
rights and institutions entirely safe under the con-
stitution and laws as they now stand and ONLY de-
sire to be let alone, without any interference bv
Congress with their domestic concern the question
arises whether Mr. Lincoln and his party will have
the power even if they have disposition to disturb
or impair the rights and institutions of the South
either in the States or Territories or in the District
of Columbia? They certainly cannot do it under the
existing laws Will they have the power to repeal
or change these laws, or to enact others? Il il
we'll known that they will be in minority in both
bonseo Of Congress With tLr Sunrnma Conrt
anoinst tbenn
eTn tbo Nortbarn Stotes tbore boro baor oIactod
already snfficiant numher of Damocratic rnemhers
of Conrrass hold and frna national rnan nIodrad
to the Cincinnati platform, and the doctrines of
non-intervention by Congress with the question of
slavery in the States and Territories and thn Dis
trict of Columbia who added to the Southern Re-
presentatiyes will give at least twenty majority
AGAINST Mr.. Lincoln and his party on all these
questions In the Senate there is also decided
and reliable majority Hence no bill can pass either
house of Congress-. impairiug or disturbing the
rights or institutions of the Southern people in any
manner whatever unless q portion of the Southern
Senator's and Representatires absent Memseves 80 as
10 oire an Abolition maioru IN consegueRce of their
absence
In minoritv in bntb bougas of Congras, witt,
Tho cnnramo Torrt tn avnnrnd tbo Isc,s n,rG ra
strain oil ;IIan,I snd nnronstitutionaI ootS tbo
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