The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-03

twas not unnatural that the public should mani
itSt considerable interest in the late prize-6ght,
however much the fact may be deplored The pub
lclty given to the proceedings of the combatants
for months anterior to the encounter and the
international character which, despite the absurd
ly OF such Il thing, the promoters of the fight
managed to give to it, could not fail to excite
universal curiosity. This being once thoroughly
aroused, the community became, us a matter of
course, intensely interested in the result of the
contest. A long time had passed since similar
occurrence had attracted very general attention,
ana 1t may be doubted whether any such event in
modern times ever attained to equal notoriety.
The present was, therefore, considered by most
people to be an exceptional case, and if they
visited those engaged in it with comparatively
mia censures it was not because they had in any
degree modified their opinions about prize-fght-
ing As they did not expect a succession of like
exhibitions to follow the one in which HEENAN
ana SAVERS participated, so they did not intend
'heir liberation on this occasion to be construed
mo Il tacit encouragement Of pugism generally
society happened to be in one of those careless
ana good-natured moods when it was indisposed
10 crluciSe harShy those who were catering to its
eAclleiheht or amusement, even though they vio-
lated propriety and right in so doing 1t
nurmured its Misrepresentation of the contem-
PN''eu meeting very family indeed, and it is
useless 10 deny that it has devoured with immense
aVldi'y If not keen relish all the details of the
bloody combat. To have gone thus far is to have
gone TAR enough. 1t is time for the public and
the press to pause, unless they mean IN a,,ob,a
ruilanism, and to elevate brutality to q nlaco
among the virtues The miserable business 10
over now, and right-mnded persons must sureIy
regard lit henceorth only with feelings of disgust.
Whatever allowance may be made for the coun-
tenance which, in moment of excitement the
community has apparently given TO the affair, its
better Judgment must resume its sway and the
persistent effortnow made to transform these gladj-
ators into heroes should meet with the unmeasured
Reproduction itdeserves. The swelling phrases in
which two DULLES are lauded, as honest and hon.
orable men have seldom the luck to be in this CEN
serious world, as full of falsehood as of fool
ishness To talk about founding an estimate of
the qualities Of two great divisions of the human
npon the respective merits of the belligerents
in question, is to utter to our poor seeming
arrant nonsense And, yet, we have read in nu-
merous papers grave arguments upon the capabili-
ties OF the English and Americans, and the
premises from which they are deduced are the
''gameness, 'ipluck" and endurance of
the champions who belabored each other at
marlborough. The stately London Times has
condescended to remark in allusion to this battle
that nations without great qualities could not have
brought together two willing to pass through such
pnrla D a-rfIln 80 T,,aa
How such trash found its way INTO The Times is
somewhat extraordinary, and lis publication is
only to be accounted for upon the presumption
that like the rest of the world that journal was
carried away by an excitement from which If has
not yet recovered. The willingness of two men
TO 'pass through such an ordeal" AS that mention-
ed is deliberately accepted by The Times as the
test of the 'great qualities of two nations and it
is scarcely possible that the most irrational writer
could put forth more absurd proposition How
many nations are there on the face of the earth
when conld not lnrnlSh two men who would pass
through ten times more than HEENAN and S.ypRs
endured? Have we not read of excruciatipe and
prolonged tortures, which have been inflicted on
men in every age and every country, and which
were borne with unhinching caimness and resolu-
ton? The Chinese, the Hindoos, and the North
American Indians will often suffer pain and meet
death with stocism that civilizations "noble
"army of martyrs has not surpassed. If
the ''great qualities of nations are to be
measured by the brute courage of any one re-
preventative of each, where, it may be asked
sha' we md the people who could be thus tried
anu iouna wanting2 And if all are shown, by
'u'S S@nuard, to possess "great qualities" to
wna' purpose nave America and England been
selected by The Times as worthy. at this moment,
OF especial praise2 The eouclusio,. - M. 1;,,os
are not less ignoble than the theme on which -
mas chosen thus to moralize. If we have snol,.,,
lightly OF this fight, it was simply because NO