The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-12

The debates in Congress, even under the opera
ton OF The Infamous gag Law by which all oppo-
stion 10 the measures Of the ruling section is
summariy crushed out, will nevertheless be pro-
ductee Of one good effect. They will prove to
the country that the men now in power are the
real conspirators against the peace prosperity, and
unity Of lie republic; that they seek to subordi-
nate to PASSION and prejudice, and intense secti
al selGahness, the supreme law of the land, and
that tue Constitution is TO be reverenced or spat
upon rs il happens to coincide with, or to be in
opposition 10 their policy. They have already
openly avowca, by their speeches and their acts,
that they are prepared to go any lengths to
achieve the ends they have in view. The man
Bh1-tO quote his own coarse langGage-"runs
''the machine," has called for four hundred
thousand men aud four hundred millions Of dol
lars, and a subServient Senateresponds by author
izing n levy Of five hundred thousand men and
appropriation of Eve hundred millions of
dollars, and Senator BAKER urges forward
the prosecution of the war upon The
seeded States in the following remarkable
language, which we quote from his speech OF
Wednesday last:
"forward, decisive movement until the war should
''ceose. Bayonas are shGrp arguments aud are mas
''uSe them. He was not quite certain that they
'wouid be able to overrule TIE South; it contain:
IA great and determined people, scho are Of h
''6elief that they are right, and will fight TO tn
'asl; but may hare to reduce her to the condition
of territories, and hare to place them Goucraor
''ot Massachusetts and Illinois 10 coatro! them"
has, heretofore been vehemently denied that III
North had the rernotest intention of aubugalin
the 5 Iuth. The war, it was alleged, was not 90
ten up for any such purpose. II R"rats, 10 pre-
thN6'tne Union. T5ese were the osiengible OF
Jects for which three hundred thousand men ver
summoned 10 ans; not conquest, not suhiuga
ton, but 10 put down Illegal combinations and t
give free voice TO the overwhelming, yet over
awed-we leave others to reconcile the paradox
Union sentiment in the seeded States Now
however, the time has come when the mask ma
be safely thrown off. A Republican Senator get
up in his place and boldly avows that great AM
determined people, who he acknowledges ''be
"iieve that they are right" are to lie forced f
swallow their convictions under the stsharp arm
''ments" Of bayonets; and if they heroicay de
termne to resist Northern dctation, they are f
be ravaged with fire and sword; their plan
tations are to be laid waste: their home
sic ds are to he burned their possessions con
hscated-a law to this effect has already bee
introduced into Congressman after they bav
been subjected to all the horrors of ranne ant
piage, and TO those awful atrocitie
which humanity shudders to record, the sa
remnant of survivors are to be reduced to terri
toria! condition, to be go7erned by Northern pro
consuls. Let IL be remarked, moreover, that thi
exposition Of the Republican programme, as ar
nounced by Senator BAKER, was made in h
presence of his Republican colleagues not one {
whom ventured to deny that it expressed III
views of the Government, or Of the section vbic
they claim to represent. They neither denounce
it on the score of bad policy, nor on the hicht
ground of inhumaniy. On the contrary, the
emphatically endorsed the propositions which II
Senator from Oregon had SO hardly rnaintaine
by promptly passing the bill that clothed II,
LINCOLN with power to call ont half q mi
lion of men, and which, ct the same time
appropriated and gave him unlimited contre
over five hundred millions Of dollars. VIII
now will dare to say that the oppositio
journals are not justified in declaring that tn
war which the North is waging against tn
South is a war Of conquest and subjugation? W
have repeatedly asserted that, whatever the pre-
text might be, the political and commercial domi
nation OF the North was the ruling motive. TIL,
question Of slavery was undoubtedly the ENTERING
wedge, and is as certainly involved in the issue
but hand finland with that goes The question @
Northern monopolies in commerce and mauufac
lures. Nothing less than The dread of the (j,tur,
independence of the South in both these resnectz
could have stimulated the merchants and canital.
lsts OF the Northern States TO so lavish an cxnend
ture OF money-lbough they claim to be only soIic.
ltous for the preservation Of the Union. and have
successfully used this rallyiug cry to cloak the
baser motive. Thus far--by the aid of Northern
fanatics cooperating with them for the attainmen,
OF their own ends-they have succeeded in eyas-
peratjng the Northern masses against the peonle Of
the South, and by unparalleled mendacity. and nv
resort to the most degrading tricks and sptter-
fuges, have kept The fever at its HIGHEST no;nt
bat that they will succeed as wei! in their ultima to
aim of forcing, by the ''sbarp argument of the
bayonet, the Southern States back into the
Union, or OF reducing them ''toa territorial con-
EDITION." we TO more believe than we believe in
the right OF Republican President to WELD the
powers of DICTATOR or in the possibility of recon-
structing tree from lis ashes.