The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-27

OF South Carolina with all honor and courtesy and
respect. 1t was an invitation from another State
to US, produced by the !oray OF 4 band of nccnda-
res, fanatics, and assassns upon territory and
to the injury of our citizens. Virginia chose to
punish these rulfans under her own laws
which she did to the entire extirpalion of the
whole band-and to provide for her safety
without troubling other States, or calling upon
them TO ayenge her wrongs or take up her
quarrel. That she did well and wisely we
have no doubt, and all honor and thanks to the
patriots in the Legislature who then directed her
counseis and shaped her action in this matterl We
have now no doubt that, had that invitation been
accepted, the disunion movement would have COM
menced then, and Virginia been expected to head
and lead it on! Is 1t the failure to Glitch iu'' Vr
gina then which has produced the outbreak of the
MercWy and its diSuniOn friends nol0 Let that be
as it may, we repeat that the Mercury will take
nothing and make nothing By its exposition of the
feelings OF the South Carolina disunionstS towards
Virginia and the other border States. On the con.
traTy, Its remarks will disgust and turn away from
all sympathy with their course tn housands of the
citizens of Virginia, wno admitting the injuries
inflicted upon the South by Northern Legislatures
and Northern people, will not suffer patiently the
arrogant air, tone, and pretensiOns assumed by
the South Carolina coteries.-Aierandria Gazette
Of Nov. 23d.
THE EXCITEMENT TEXAS.
A correspondent of the Galveston Cirilian writes
as follows from Austin, on the 18th:
On Sunday we had much excitement and MANY
Tdsl ueCiafallonS were made. A Lone Star flag
was put out o the hotel window by stranger: and
during the day one raised on the avenue by a num-
Der OF persons, Major Johns, comptroller, partic,
pating.
There was some talk of putting the Lone Star
flag on the capitol, on Monday.
Much diversion of sentiment was apparent on
Sunday, and towards night it clearly to be seen
that rash measures would not be countenanced by
any respectable number of persons.
On Monday morning no flags we're seem nor have
any been raised since.
Yesterday evening a handb, issued by the Ga
sete Office, appeared calling meeting of those in
favor of pettioning the Governor to ca the Legis-
lature together, that they may submit the question
of submission or resistance to the people.
To-day call for military company is posted up.
The people here are saddened, and most of them
silent. Political leaders find that party lines are
broken up, and a number who voted for Breckin-
ridge have already declared against disunion. The
meeting on Saturday will develop the secession
feeling; but it is clear that numerous party here
will oppose it.
Even those in favor of secession are divided
some for the Lone Star, some for a Southern con-
federacy.
find the old citizens counseliug moderation and
calmness. The Union men are pursuing a concia-
tory course, and while they express opposition to
convening the Legislature, endeavor to allay ex
element
NORTH as. SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Raleigh Register, of Wednesday, asks what
claim South Carolina has on the cooperation of
Nortn Carollna, and adds:
1t is manifest that in her secession move South
Carolna has taken counsel only of what she deems
her interests and has not paid any or the SLIGHTEST
attention to the interests of other States. She
wants free trade and cheap negroes and she secedes
that she may get them. As far as North Carolina
Is concerned, we do not remember to have seen her
name mentioned in any of the speeches and proceed
lngs In South Carolina 1t is "Cdrolina'' and the
cotton States all the time, and the existence of
North Carolina as member of this confedet acy has
been ignored by her arrogant and pretentious
neighbor. Why, then, should North Carolina
tuck herself to the tail of the great () nation of
South Carolina, and share the fate which her enor-
nous foIies will bring on her? North Carolina
we apprehend is not enamored of either free
trade or cheap negroes to leave the Union to get
to them. Her interests are exactly the other wav
in every particular, and if the great nation of q
Carolina consults her interests, why NAV not her
more modest and unpretending neighbnr consult
her interests?
REPORTS FROM wAsHINGToY.
Letters from the South and Southwest continue
to pour IN upon every Of position and influence
here, treighted with the hopes and fears the wishes
and determinations of the people of those sections.
Would that were permitted to spread before the
readers of the Herald the expressions of devotion to
the Union which come up from the hOspitable homes
there, all breathing prayers and confident hopes
that those whom the people of the United States
have entrusted with their government in the diff
terent branches thereOf-legislatve, judicial and
eXecutlVe-may remember the obligations imposed
unon them, and not be diverted from the discharge
OF their duties by any temporary eXcitements, or
by the persuasiOns of gangreeped bv State
jealousy, or moved by personal ambition, and, least
OF all, by the ebutliliOns of adventurers who with
out any acquaintance with our national or State
politics, undertake at this time to speak for the
South. The t0rwardness of this latter class de-
serves more formal rebuke than the Herald has
yet given.
Virginia does not at all accord with South Caro-
lima The indiscreet article of the Charleston Aer-
cury to which referred in a former despatch has
had the effect of turning thousands, in every part
of the Old Dominion, against the whole secession
movement. If South Carolina wishes to make her
separation cause reputable in the eyes of men who
acknowledge her wrongs and sympathiZe with her
titles to redress, the she dscarGs the Nercu-
ry and all of its crazy counseors, the better
They as bad the GarrisOnS and Wendell Phil
lips of the North.
Notwithstanding the conservative and Union
loving tone of the letters alluded to- regret to add
that our hotels filled with herd of politicians
who seem bent on forming a Southern c0nfederacy.
Their talk is OF nothing but the power of South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Misss-
slppl, the fitness of these States to form Southern
government, n nucleus around which all the slave
holding border communities must inevitably clus-
ter. The disunion sentiment is evidently growing
among these excited children of the sun, who de-
light in banners, blue cockades, Palmetto and Lone
Star emblems, rattesnakes, &C., &c.
Three Bell electors in Georgia-Law, Douglas
and Wright-have yielded to the current, and
changed from Union men to secessionists.
From Alabama there comes voice of hope for
the Union. The Hon. j. L. NJ. Curry, who won
at the last session a reputation for judgment and
information worthy of the best DAYS of the repub-
lie, has taken the stump, and will oppose the Sc
cessionists.
From Tennessee there come the strongest re.
mOnstrances against secession. General Pillow
plan, however, receives little favor. He is not ex-
actly qualified by talents, education statesman
ship to be adviser at the present crisis and the
restless vanity which his gratuitous letter disclosed
has not been proptious to his plan. He is better
qualified for farming on Duck river than for coun-
selling the nation.
From Kentucky all we receive is conservative.
The Lexington Statesman, the organ of Mr.. Breck-
inridge, says emphatically: "The secession of five
or six States would be an act OF egregious folly and
gross ingratitude. ."-Herald Correspondence.