The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-03

vi all the Northern journals which have essayed
| to ane'rnr Tho rnmnlainta accusations nf .la
South, the New York Tribune has adopted the
most offensive tone and resortcd 10 the most I'm.
| candid arguments. For sometime prior to Mr.
LINCOLN S election it assumed more conservative
character than usual, but it has, apparently, de-
termned, as offset to that period of selfimposed
restraint, to indulge, for season, in the largest
| liberty. 1T no longer endeavors to conceal its
real sentiments, and its readers have, therefore,
been lately treated to series of articles in which
extreme views and scurrilous language were most
! happily combined. Whether the Tribune desires
to drive the North and South further asunder than
they are now, or hopes to convert the latter from
the error oft ways, by villifying it continually
we Will not stop to inquire, as we are neither soil
cltous to understand its objects nor to expose its
| motives. Bat as that journal exercises no incon-
siderable influence over the mass of the Republican
party, justice to ourselves requires that we should
so far as we can, correct its MISREPRESENTATION.
If we can satisfy the Northern people that we are
not quite as unreasonable and reckless as that I'M
scrupuous organ reports us to be- it is our duty to
do so. The interests that we have at stake are so
vast and important that it would be neither manly
nor becoming to allow pride or passion to con-
strain us to sullen silence Whatever of indIgna-
ton or contempt, therefore, we may feel towards
the journal in question, we must still repel its in
situations and reply to its arguments.
few days ago the Tribune, in article enti-
titled "The Southern Grievance undertook to
set forth what it affected to believe was the mate
rial point at issue between the North and South
1t informed its readers that, if they would ''wade
through the columns of Southern datribes
against the North, they would find that ''the
'master grievance" therein alleged against the
people of the latter section was their deficient
''alacrty in catching and returning runaway
''slaves." 1t went on to say that "the mass Of
''the people of the free States never did heartily
cooperate in negro catching, and never wilr
that of the fugitive slaves who cross Mason Il
Dixon's line "nine-tenths get safely to Canada, if
''they really try, as they always did, and always
"will;' and that, by the repeal of the Personal
Liberty Bills, ''the South would not be profted
Gone silver" All this, it is further said, "South
FERN politicians do not comprehend" and lest
they should propose to 'daub the cracks in the
Union with the untempered mortar of n new
compromise, they are informed, for their future
guidance, that 'a stipulations for greater alac-
''ity and efficiency in slave hunting on the part |
Hot the free States will prove an illusion and q |
'tsham'' .a
In reply to all this we have only to say that |
Southern politicians and the Southern people
do comprehend much better than the Tribune
seems to do, their own situation, and that of the
inhabitants of the free States, and also the nature
of the obligations the latter are required to dis
charge. 1t is not true that ''he graaaaaea of the
offence, y with which the North is charged, is its
'repugnancc to slave catching" The South does
not complain of the simple "repugnance' of the
North to the rendition of fugitive saves-she does
not expect to allay that feeling-she does not in
slst that all the citizens of that section shall aid
in securing such fugitives-and she does not ask
that any one man north of Mason & Dxon's line
shall, at her dictaton, abandon his individual,
opinions concerning the institution of slavery
But the South does demand, and will have JUS
tice-and she has nexorably determined that
while the Union lasts, the North must honestly
abide by the Constitution and the laws. She says
to the people of the free States that, whatever
may be their views about slavery or their unwil-
ilngnesS to make any personal efforts to arrest
tugitives, they shall, at least abstain from insult
outrage and aggression towards those who differ
with them. They must cease to murder and i'm
prison Southern men, for attempting peacefully
and legally to maintain their rights--they must
curb the mobs which assail, with brutal violence.
the officers of the law for daring to grant the
STAKEHOLDER the redress to which he is entitled
they must prevent their Courts from fraudulently
using The process Of the several States for the ex-
press purpose of deleatin the remedies which an
Act of Congress has provided-they must refrain
from encouraging and applauding the ruffians
who incte seditions and instigate murders in our
must cease to scatter the most incen-
diary and abusive documents broadcast through
out the South-they must not nulify the statutes
of the land, deny the authority of the Federal
Courts, and repudiate the guarantees which the
Constitution framed for the protection of the
Southern people. In other words, they must fairly
and frankly recognize our rights, and fulfil in