The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-14
CITY TNTELLTGFNEE
UNION MEETING.

DNION -HEE1IAG.
In pursuance of a call published in the daily pa
pers, signed by the Presidents Of the several
Young Mems Christian Associations of this city,
quite large audience of ladies and gentlemen as
sembled last night in the Central Presbyterian
Church, corner of Liberty and Saratoga streets
The meeting was opened with singing and prayer,
when j. Dean Smith, Esq, appointed to act as
Chairman, arose, and stated that the meeting had
not been called for any political purpose, but they
had assembled as Gods people, to commune to-
gether in regard to the dangers which were now
| threatening us, as great nation.
| Mr.. Smith then introduced to the meeting, the
Rev. DR.. Fuller, who delivered a most eloquent ad-
! dress, as follows:
All who know anything of so humble an individual as
myself know my devout attachment to the Union as es
tdJshed ty forefatters. But this is not the time
for panegyrics when love is is in danger of dy-
ing business is not to euogze, but attempt
to save him. And he who this night spends your time
in extolling the Union, in utering poetical political
topes metaphors about Eagle the Stars and
Stripes would in my Judgment be doing that which
profit woman. Revolutions not to be
treated with rosewater and lavender; and in the
midst of revolutions.
1t is openly boasted by the abotonists that an entire
revolution has been achieved and rghteousiy, through
the baot-box As if, under a constitutional govern.
ment, a majority have any more right to pervert the
government into engine of wrong and persecution by
the balot-box, than by the catrdge-box. / wish to
speak harshly Of nobody Bless them that curse you;
abuse you-that is the only revenge Christian ought
to know But appeal to the candor of all who hear
Has the South nterfered with the North9 Has not
the melancholy change behold been the result of
unremitting and wanton assaults upon the South by
Congress upon her and her nsttuOns-with which the
North have concern than they have with the a
| fairs of France Russia?
There is noble conservative force at the North among
Republicans as well as Democrats but psvco logically
tn is element there which unless 1t
prosecuting somebody for conscience sake. 1t is
spectacle for sincerity is always respectable but it
| nost wOrn as
witches for concencesake persecutedthe Quaker and
Baptsts and drove Roger Williams off as exile, for
conscience sake 1t has the South in the wind,
conscience sake and matter how fearful the catas
phe to and women-o masters and servants-it has
| one answer; "Liberari animam mea'n' II have delv-
cred my soul" 1t is fierce. nexorable cruel
| lenting. Lord Bacon has well said that without "sc
| No man has a right to talk of conscience, until he
has examined, and cOmprehends the subject in all its
know nothing of the South They follow conscience
the driver follows his horses guiding them at his will
So those deliver their conscences up to blind fierce
passions and they say they are following conscience
After glowing eulogy on South Carolina, "tbe
very dirt of which," be said, 'was dear to him."
| DR.. Fuller remarked:
have received letters from various quarters asking
she ought not to wait and consult other States?
not for to speak of her am to pray for her
| But her answer you know. She has waited-waited
long-for her sister States, and has than
rendered her convictions to their counsels But she
feels that she must actif at alaone and for herself
Others have said, has been complaint every
where, that South Carolina has suffered little moth
ing by the loss of property and therefore ought not to
act. Is it to this? Have body polite but
soul polite? Do people so little comprehend honor and
principle? This is her glory that she is acting sincerely
principle Libeed she has been by Massachusetts
Senator who to burn with malignant hate at the
very mention of her name yet is historical fact that
| in the Revolution Carolina did not act upon cacu.
lation of loss and profit She pet State. But
Boston assailed than she forgot herself and
| hastcned to take up
such is her delicious climate and such the happiness
of her slave populaon that know of but one fugitive
vbo has Hsl ipoT1 T1ira
all into this matter She is acting principle not
upon arithmetic. The Constitution has been trampled
under foot People saying, "0h, for hour of Web
now" But we had years Of Webster who denounced
the statutes nullifying the fugitive slave act down
right legislative treason. What his reward? Con-
tumely calumny, insult to his person while livng-to
| his memory when dead. Faneuil Hall, opened to
those who wish to commemorate the bloody deeds Of JnO
Brown closed against Daniel Webster, because he
advocated the Fugitive Law. Fanatcsm and hatred
banded together to reduce the South to the condition of
conquered province. So Carolina thinks and surely this
is enough.
DIR. Fuller had declined speaking at the Mary
land Institute as he did not wish to appear in any
| political meeting, and he only consented to speak
in this place, and under the auspices of this Asso
citation.
The ground taken by DR.. Fuller was that the
Border States are placed, by God geographically
| and morally, between the North and South, as the
proper umpire to say, There shall be no Jloodshed,
and that they ought to propose and insist upon a
reconstruction of the government, with such
| amendments to the Constitution as win meet the
demands of the South which las never assailed the
| North, and has never demanded more than that
tranquility that cessation of all intermeddling that
perfect equality, which is her right and which it s
| hoped all true men at the North will be ready to
| concede uhicb must be conceded by all the States
that will be admitted into the Union, thus brought
| back to its original construction.
Judge Giles next addressed the meeting.
He considered that dangers which surrounded
should be met by us here in Maryland men should
meet them. We must not look supinely on, while
great events were transping around u.s. and not raise
voices The Middle States should act at once, and
Tie Governor of the State should act He should call
convention of the people, and through them delegates
should be appointed to meet the other border States Vr
gna Kentucky and Tennessee and let them plead with
South Carolina to pause before she takes the step which
will dissolve the Confederacy. Maryland
should take the first step, and doubt appeal to
South Carolina from her would be considered with
| spect and treated mpartially
The speaker then paid beautiful euiogy to the Cnnst
tuition and the Confederacy of the States framed by
forefathers, and contrasted the Union of bygone
times with that of the present day His sympathies
with the South, and he believed the South had been
wronged, but thought that severenance of the Union
might be averted the border States acted at
| Unlike his friend who preceded him. he saw some
CLEANS of light through the dark clouds which hovered
around the political horizon He saw light in the East
| Boston was redeemed Already q change ia taking
place in the minds of the people If the South pauses
ana the Middle States act once the North would
be feet in sixty days. We must do something;
must know true position. If going to ruin,
let's look about and see what is best to do and declare
what we intend to do.
The Judge said ne was opposed to Maryland being
border State; if the Union is ruptured, he want
ed her to be central State of a confederacy. He
favored the formation of confederacy, in the
above event, of the States North and South of the
Potomac, and East and West of the Ohio. Nir-
ginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Pennsy lvania,
New JERSEY, Tennessee, and others, would call
them the United States, and if other Southern
States wanted to come in, he would take them.
The Judge concluded by again declaring the i'm
portance of the border States taking action spec
Oily in regard to the momentous questions which
now disturbed the country.
flor ba pf Ind RI
Mr. Joseph Snyder addressed the meeting, and
offered series of resolutions, the purport of which
were, that committee of five be appointed by the
chair, who should visit the Governor, and request
him to consult with the Governors of the several
borders, as to the policy to be pursued by them in
this emergency.
The resolutions were amended in several ways,
and afterwards rejected by the meeting, which then
adjourned.
The FIRE OF WEDNESDAY, NIGHT.-The fire of
Wednesday night was fully as destructive was
reported. Most of the loss which it is thought
will amount to SIZE, 900, is covered by insurance in
offices in this city and Northern offices, Messrs.
Fickey & Son have been injured to a much greater
extent than at first supposed, is also Mr.
John Turnbu Their goods were principally
damaged by water, although the former suffered
slightly by fire. The stock of Messrs. Merreield
Stinchcomb exceeded the amount of insurance 81.
600, and they will be losers TO that extent. Mr.
Daniel Stills, photographic, on the fourth story
the Waters building, lost all his instruments anG
will exceed $4,000. The rest of the sufferers are
fully insured.
Fire Commissioner Boyd was yesterday engaged
in endeavoring to ferret out the cause of the fire
but as yet satisfactory conclusion has been
reached. This is owing to the fact that when the
/ fire first discovered it had spread Throughout
the three upper stOres and the precise location
the commencement other than that it was in thu
third story, will no doubt remain mystery. Th'
tardness in giving the alarm the subject o
general conversation yesterday, and to it no doub
e nuch of the destructiveness is due. The Superin
n tendent of the Fire Alarm Telegraph, Mr.. William
S Barrett, contends that the proper box was in or
der, while the officer who tried to give the alarm
: from it, asserts that it was not There is no dis
pute in regard to its being out of order Sunday
: and the Superintendent does not say that he exam
n ined it from that time until the occurrence of tht
IS fire, although the box reported to the Contra
[, office on that day.
While the fire was in progress an attempt wa
e made to give general alarm from the box, but i
G failed. At four o'clock yesterday morning it wa
again tried, but would not work; and at seve
o'clock it was in the same condition. Mr.. Barret
N discovered that the wires were twisted togethe
=, near the pole, and they were righted, when a
a, alarm sent over the line, but at seven o'cloc
: last night the box still not in complete work
r. ing order.
N Yesterday morning, about balf-past eight, a
T. alarm was given, which caused by the re-kind
rs ling of the fire. A portion of the Department an
If swered and couple of lines ofhose were put t
work and soon put an end to the revival Most
the Fire Department remained on the ground dur
ing the night. The Hook and Ladder Compan