The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-01

Dir. JeferSon.-Holliday Street Theatre will no
doubt be crowded tonight on occasion of the last
appearance of Mr.. Jefferson. lie takes the char.
acter of Norman Noggs, which is conceded to be
one of his best parts. He also appears in the CAPT.
tai buresque farce, The Lady of the Lions, assum-
ing the extremely comical part of CIod MeddEenot.
On Monday the new sensational play, the Dead
Heart, will be brought out at great expense of new
scenery, properties, auxaries, &c. This piece is
termed by Philadelphia and New York critics as
the "greatest emotional melo drama of the ay."-
The scenes being laid in Paris at the time of the
French Revolution, afford rich and ample material
for the stirring drama.
[COPRESPOYDENCE or DAILY FFrryaycE,
ANNE ARUNDEL Co., ND.
Nessrs. Editors Of the Daily Exchange of Baltimore
GENTLEMEN-I am well known to you personally.
and cannot but hope you have full reliance upon
me as a friend to your paper. Your course, gen.
orally since it was established, has been honorable
to your heads and to your hearts, and hope YOU will
moult no feather of your plumage, in the course
parties are about taking in relation to the great
events Of the day. No joarnal has ever deserved
than yours for its untirng efforts in favor Of
reform. ] believe your old opponents will now
accord to you the merit of having in a great de
gree, brought about the reform in your CITY and the
This is at least my opinion, and | am not little
surprised to find in your editorials of late a tona
that fear is susceptible of being interpretcd into
hostility to the South. ! aude to your remarks on
several occasions upon the position that South Car
DINA has assumed in regard to her rights. AS a
legal question it is your right and duty to canvass
the merits of her acts critically; but it strikes me
this should be done by you editors of Southern
Journal with due respect and consideration for Tho
feelings of this gallant State
In some of your editorials | have read such lam
guage used towards that State that | almost
thought ! was reading one of the Northern anti
slavery journals. doubt not that your paper is
sound and true to the South but it seems to me
queer way of showing this by your using language
towards South Carolina capable of wounding her
feelings. She is one 0tus. She has had as we all
have had, infinite cause of discomfort and amer
towards the North. She is high tempered GAL.
liant, independent; and shall she be snubbed or
ridiculed for doing what we all admit to be right
IN principle, though differences may exist among us
to the time and mode of acting? 1t might be pre
sumed, from the tone of some your articles that
Maryland is not Southern in her feelings and will
not go with the South. This belive to be errone-
Gus and calculated to do harm-it will DISCOURAGE
the South and give aid and countenance to the enc
my.
The defeated parties in Maryland-the Bell and
Douglas parties-are smarting under the pain of
their defeat, and looking around to see how they
can best annoy the party that has been successful
This party, from the nature of things is the "smon
pure representative of the South. 1t is not the
old Democratic party of 1882 sc, but a sound con
sttutlonal party, devoted to that keystone of the
arch ''the institution of Slavery by which alone
can the Constitution be preserved, and the South
remain in the present Union. These are not times
Tor men OF character to be "cutting and trimming"
Let every man show his hand | am pro-slayery
up to the hub. There was time when thought
differently, but now, the fanaticism of some and
the diabolical intentions of Others in the North,
have made me know that for myself, my friends
my State, and for the entire South l. and the party
L nave honor h. but
move to make-that is to meet the aggressors half.
way, and to defend our rights to the last hour of
our existence.
In the South, it nov appears, that most of the
Douglas and Bell men are as good for secession as
the breckenridge men. There, this sentiment is al
most unit-in Carolina it is remarkably so. Why
then desplse the sentiments of our Southern
brethren? They loyal to the South and loyal to
the Constitution; if they cannot maintain the latter
In all its provisions, it is not from want of will
but from want of political porer; and it is pre-
cseiy because this balance of power IS lost to them,
or is about to be lost that the South begins to feel
the necessity of placing herself in safer and happ-
position.
1t is all nonsense talking about the glory of our
ancestors and the poetical idea Of one grand re-
public standing out in high relief before the world
beautiful and very desirable, if possibIe-but we
have tried to preserve this beau ideal of our fore
fathers, we now see it can't be done. The fanat-
lelsm and antipathies of the people of the North
have revealed this plain fact by the election of
Lincoln Not that he as President can do
us any great harm, but he is the representative of
aparty that has hostile feelings to and to our in
stitutions-a party that has been for forty years
working day and night, in the social circle in the
pulpit, in the workshops, in their Legislatures and
at their mass meetings to overset social system
For two generations it has been their song, from
the cradle to the grave, to pronounce the slave
holder sinner and an aristocrat 1t is, therefore,
high time to act.
Sad news will it be to the philosopher and the
lover OF liberty, in Europe, to hear of our great
family On1rrpl. tpill fha
hail it, and the manufacturing interests of England
also will rejoice that great political power is de-
throned, by which severance each section will be
reduced to second rate power, and the changes
which will follow in the course of trade and manu-
featuring will assuredly change the relations of all
parties to each other, and bring ruin to thousands
But the sin is not ours. The South has long
sounded the solemn notes of warning. Cardinals
voice has rung like clarion on the breeze. Her
prophetic words were unheeded by the North, let
them not be treated with contumely by sister
state Moderate her, il you please, as one brother
should speak to another but use no harsh or unknd
words. Yours,