The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-30
POLITICAL

election. To-day we give the sentlmett OF such oil
the conservative journals as have reached us:
The Nashville Gazette says:
owe intend to meet this great question calmly
look the danger in the face. The problem of the
safety of the Union will not be solved if solved
all, by politicians greedy for office; it will not be
solved by fanatics at the North, or the disunonists
of the South; it must be solved by the great body
of the people. Just now, as it appears to u.s. there
is arrayed against the Union, as the supporters of
Lincoln and Hamlin, about one-half of the North
the other half and all the South stand opposed to
them. This is not so bad as some of us would have
it. We talk of the North as whole, while the
| North numbers one-half, nearly so, as politi-
cally friendly to the South; besides, we can
see how much of trick, how much of old
party antipathies have been brought to bear in fa
vor of the Republican movement; and looking at all
these powerful aids, and keeping in view the main
| spring OF the mOvement-the fanatical feature OF
the question involved-we surprised, not at the
small maorities of Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania,
| but surprised that they small. If the KEY
stone of the arch does not give the Republicans
fifty thousand majority in November, it will not be
| the fault of the platform. There is magic in the
word tariff, to the men who still vote for Simon
Snyder for Governor, and General Jackson for
| President
With the Senate opposed to him, Mr. Lincoln
| can do no harm; and with small and steadily
decreasing ma jorty in the House, he is powerless
for evil; BESIDES his party is built of the most in
| compatible notwithstanding cOngruous, nothing
harmonious in their compositions; the very ground
work is combustibe in its nature and will explode
any addition of the simplest element OF
national policy is made.
We have been patient heretofore under the sin
| gular workings of majorities; must be patient
under the rule of Executive elected by a mino-
rty, if we that in his election errors of the
most dangerous nature will sink forever, and carry
their authors with them into the profoundes depths
| of political oblivion.
The Memphis Enquirer enters into cool cacula
lation of the cost of disunion. 1t says:
| But let US suppose Mississippi out of the Union.
| She must have Government; she must have her
Congress (who would call it Legisature2) and
| she must have ministers and ambassadors. She
must have an army and navy, and a Post-ofice De-
partment She must have Secretaries of State, W ar
Navy, Interior, ard Postmaster General. There
would be glorious contest for all these offices; and
| such canvass would be entered upon as was never
| seen on this Continent before.
All this would cost money, and somebody must
| be taxed. 1t would not do for Mississippi to issue
her "Treasury notes, for she owes millions on that
score now, and she could get no credit until these
| are paid no. Indeed. standing alone, without the
protection of our national flag, Holland might send
| over here and lombard some seaport mississippi
| City, for instance), and compel the payment of
| those old Union Bank bonds to Hope & Co., of
| Amsterdam.
Taxation, then, would be the only remedy; and
| that would be pretty high. Our Government now
costs one hundred millions in its administration ;
we have, say, thirty three millions of people; this
is three millions of dollars to million of people,
as it now stands inthe Union. When out of it, the
amount required would be treble that sum; and let
it be remembered that in this estimate there is no
account taken of foreign taxes, &C. 1t is only for
| general purposes. as nation.
Suppose however, it all does not exceed the sum
of six millions annually; what is the per centage'of
taxation? Let us see The taxable wealth of the
State is about S6,OOO0O0; if she has to raise six
millions on that, it is just one per cent, or 81 on
every hundred worth of property. The present tax
| is not one-fourth of that.
Do our readers believe the good people of Missis-
sippi are going into this absurd dsunion movement
only to paym5re tares2 Will any other good come
out of it, even if that be regarded one? 1t is
idle to think of it. The masses have too much at
stake and too much intelligence, to risk such con-
| sequences. The Union is safe.
Elsewhere the Enquirer remarks:
Our exchanges tell us of the twenty members of
the South Carolina Legislature, lately chosen in
Charleston only four with the extremists; and
only one, the editor of that fireeatng journal, the
Mercuy,) was for secession upon Lincoln's cleo
tion.
Another candidate who openly proclaimed him
self an ultrastgot but 600 votes out of about 2,500
This is all significant. 1t s the American charac-
ter speaking out in its practical mood.
A correspondent of the Atlanta (Georgia) Amer
ican makes the following calculations of the results
of disunion:
l. The bare prospect Of 1t has now reduced the
price of cotton $40 per bale below its value and
500 900 bales will be sold before the 9th of No
vember, the loss will be S5,000,000 to the South
from this cause alone. This is below the figure
every cotton buyer knows it.
2. All the Southern Banks hare closed dolUn, shut
up shop, and now refuse to put out their bills to
pay for cotton bills of exchange, payable at the
North after the 9Th of November, because no
Northern Bank will take Southern Bank drafts or
bills payable after that date, for the that
disunion and war would cancel and annul the debts
of belligerents. Hence a money crisis is on u.s.
Cotton is going down here, whilst it is rising in Eu-
DENTAL election comes of the 9th OF November, and
dtsunloH IS threatened.
8. If iisunion should come, bacon now sixteen
cents would then be so to IS cents per pound corn
then So to SIS per bushel and money to paw for it.
There is not bacon and corn enough in the Gulf
States to feed our people until the lSt of March. We
have to buy from Illinois, Ohio Indiana, and other
Nothern States, or stdrUe.
4. Disunion is civil ,oar. We are splendidly pre-
pared for it-animis opibusque parati Let US see.
We have no muskets, rifles, no cannon, no bacon
and flour to feed an army No implements NUM-
tions of audr! Is not this true2 Let every honest
man answer the question.
5. When disunion and ciUI come, what will
the thousands do who have no bacon, no corn, and
no money to buy them with? Will they starve, or
form brigand clubs and rob- steal and murder be-
fore starving? Who could blame them? Would
the Northwest send US bacon and to stop star
vation here, while at toar Nth as! No. The idea
is absurd.
6. AL aoho are IN fdvor of cirI ,gar, starvation,
ruin, desolatiOn, robbery arson, murder, and the
utter destruction Of the South, should go for disunion
# Lincoln as elected.
The New Orleans Crescent of Wednesday says:
We would be among the last to purchase peace
at the price of honor. But the integrity of the
South, and all the essential rights of the South,
may, think, still be preserved within the Union.
Can we not fight, If necessary, for rights
IN the Union well as out of it? If the worst
to the worst and the gage of battle is thrown
down, may we not follow Wise's advice, and fight
before dissolutiOn-and if we be whipped (an i'm
possible supposition) dissolve then and not before
Is there nothing due to those true men of the
North who have stood by us, and are still standing
by US, and who would be the first to resist at
tempt to subdue us by physical force? Are We to
repel their efforts to u.s. and chill their zeal in
the holy cause, by threats of calamity, to them
most appalling-the severance of these States?
Let the people of the South, the commercial
classes especially think of these things. Let them
look at it, not in the light of interest alone, but in
the stronger light of patriotism also. Let not the
recollection of the wrongs of tho South betray her
people into any passionate excesses 1t is time
when the South should be assured that the position
she may take will be correct and defensible
We cannot afford, by unwse and precipitate ac-
ton, to place ourselves at disadvantage before
the nation and the world. The duty of a wise con-
servatsm in the disposal of our votes was never
more imperative.
The Picoyme says: With such prospects before
us, the public mind cannot be unexcited, but it
need not be bewildered with uncertainty. A plain
duty lies before every voter in all the States, to
labor for the safety of the Government which has
been so benefcent, and to which all we have of
national character, of general prosperity, of ind-
vidual happiness and of future hope, clearly
due.
FLORIDA ELECTION.
All the counties have been heard from except
Volusia, Suwannee, Sumter, Putnam, Orange
Manatee, Levy, Holmes, fernando, Dade, Cal
houn and Brevard. So far the vote for Governor
stands
For Milton, 6,295
Z" Hopkins, 1892
Majority for Milton thus far, I,403
The remaining counties expected to increase
| this majority to sixteen seventeen hundred.
| The vote for Congress far as heard from is as
| follows:
| Hilton, 6,537
Majority for Hilton SO far, 2,O85
THE CANVASS IN NEW YORK CITY.
The Presidential canvass in New York is being
fought with unusual animation on both sides On
Saturday evening there was an immense Union
thusasm prevailed round about the building, and in
! the early part of the evening rockets were dis
charged in front of the Institute. Mr.. Joshua j..
| Henry presided at the meeting. The first speech
| was delivered by the Hon. Charles J. Helme, of
Kentucky, who was followed by Mr.. Gerard, of
| New York city, and the Hon. Mr.. Stevens, of Ore.
| gOn, the chairman of the Secessionists' National
| Committee.
SPEECH OF HERsCHEL v. JOHNSON AT RICHMOND, VA
| RICHMOND, Oct. 27.-Herschel V, johnson spoke
| here tonight. He stated that those who sought to
oppose Douglas were the disunionsts-that the true
national Democracy were those who nominated
| DOuplaS-that the saPadno 1eeoatas were eycud-