The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-02

Knowing what the Federal Government is capa
BILE of and the sort of tools it works WITH thu
arrest and Imprisonment of the gentlemen com
posing the Board of Police Commissioners Cal
scarcely be regarded as a matter of surprise
is in the very essence of all usurpatons of power
that every evil act should give rise to a multitude
of others, each more infamous than the one that
preceded it, for there is progression in despotism
as there is in that meaner species Of crime, where
the petty thief hardens by degrees into the daring
burglar, and finally rpens into the cold-blooded
assassin. Not once alone, but often, we have
warned the people of Maryland against putting
any trust whatever in the pacific professions of
the man who now occupies the Presidential chair.
His speech at Indianapolis indicated the temper
which animated him towards the South, whilst
his subsequent wayside discourses set at rest all
doubt as 10 the perfect ease with which he could
be moulded to the wishes of a sectional and fana-
teal party. In the blessed name of "Union,n he
has revolutionized the government usurped all
its functions, broken down the sovereignty of
the States, instituted war upon scale hitherto
unknown in this country, and stigmatized as
rebels and traitors all those who have had the
courage and manness to denounce his reckless
and persistent violation of his official oath and
his wanton and lawless attacks upon public and
individual rights. In spite of fraud and treach-
cry, and lies, of espionage and repression, of black
mouthed cannon and cleaning bayonets, the
truth will make itself heard, aye and felt and
remembered. The day of retribution will come
aud when it does come in earnest the reckoning
will be fearful. We here, in Maryland, have es-
pecial to treasure up the recollection of the
''tender merces' of the man whom the North has
appointed to rule over US. We had strictly kept
our Federal obligations and therefore we were to
be vigorously dealt with. We had broken none
of the provisions Of the Constitution, but what of
that? We were guilty of the crime Of believing
that the South had grievances, and we were there
fore amenable to punishment. We were weak and
therefore easier to tyrannize over. We had a
prosperous trade-where is it now? We had
noble avenues to the INTERIOR and an unsurpassed
water communication with the ocean-they are
olockaded against us. After a long struggle we
mao succeeded in redeeming our chief city from
the system OF terrorism which had made it bye
"oiu anu reproach-and now it has heen forced
O'.A upou US at the point of the bayonet,
anu WIN me rufiians that upheld it.
We are uhuer the benign rule of
Federal satrap, who repeals at his will
the enactments OF our Legislature nnts b;s oo,-
umns in motion during the darkness of tho n;,,ht
and takes our citizens from their beds on,;u
mures them within the walls of a fortress w;hor,
warrant of law or any color of authority, beyond
what may be derived from the orders of his supe-
riors at Washington. There will be an end of
this thing soon. The people of Maryland will
never allow themselves to be ridden over rough
shod without taking such measures as will bring
tnem sffectual relief General BANKS and his myrmi-
dons may think that the commouon on the surface
IL perfectly manageable, but we know better. Let
them beware Of the strength of the under-tow.-
II our State s to bear the brunt of Executive vim
dietlveness and military insolence there are thou
sands Of her citizens who will know tba rsooo,
why. When that time comes, as come Il must
for men will not bear oppression forever-wo be
to those who have made themselves conspicuous
In forging chains for free people