The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-27


cial necessity incapable of civilized life earth,
and of getting into Heaven when their sinful ex-
istence is over. Perhaps the idea has at last te-
gun to dawn upon intelligent people in England
that the Northern press and Washington State
papers are not the exclusive vehicles of history.
and the readers of the London Times NAV have
some curiosity to know whether the Southern
Confederacy Is really gang of "insurgents"
armed only with slave whips, or a nation of cul
uVa'ea and resoute men, understanding their
rights, and ready and able to defend them.
Inc truth is, our Northern brethren" had as
well prepare themselves to awake from many de-
luslons. Down to this time they have had pretty
lnuch their own way in the manufacture of facts
ior foreign consumption, and the tone of public
opinion abroad, as to American affairs, has been
given, in the main, by their books and Journals
The thing, however, has at last come to an end
Their supply of folly, fasehood and assumption
has at last over-run the foreign demand, and they
are doomed henceforward to have it rottine at
home on their own hands. The intelligent mind
of Europe has sprung to the sudden consciousness
that there are two sides to the question of North
ern superiority in craftsmanship, intellect, truth
fulness, virtue and manhood-all the substantial
elements of national worth and greatness.
1t has begun TO discover that, on the
one side, are self-assertiou, selc-righteousness
scfshnesS, and energetic thrift and men,
daclty-on the other side larger political
VIEWS a more generous nature, purer public
spirit, far higher grade of public morals, and an
Infinitely higher individual sensbitv 10 honor
1t may be some time before the statesmen of Ems
rope realize these things to their full extent but
the fact that new and vigorous people, full of
| magnificent resources for the manufactures and
commerce OF the world is knocking at their doors.
for admission to the great family of nations has
startled them into scrutiny of the new reyela-
tons which are before them, and has set them to
reviewing their traditional misapprehcnsions.
They will no longer take for granted what they
read in New York newspaper, or in one of Mr..
SCENARIOS speeches or letters. They will hereafter
examine for themselves, inquire for themselves,
and determine for themselves. They will trust.
no longer, those who have deceived them thus far.
They will hear what the South has to say for it
self, and see with their own eyes, and Judge with
their own Judgments, what it is capable of maxine
good. They have no interest in perpetuatinp q
puritan domination, or fasifying history to build
up the wealth of New York or New ENGLAND
Their interests are with the political economy
which the South has always supported-tbeir
sympathies must be on the side of what they shall
Ind out, for themselves, to be the right. What
wonder, then. that the correspondent of the lead
ing journal of Europe should seek at the South
the truth in regard to the South, and should be
unwilling to take lis feelings, resources and re-
solves, at second haud from the Galsehoods of lis
enemies? What wonder that any man who has =
perception Of the truth, should leave WASHINGTON
in despair Of finding it, after seeing the signature
OF the Secretary Of State to an official document,
lnstructing an American envoy to digrace himself
by asserting, that 'Me thought of a dissolution of
Fhis Union, Peaceadly or 6y force has necer ntered
into The m'nd Of any candid statesman here?''
Therei but one ground upon which we can con-
ceive that the proprietors of the Times may posi-
bly, direct Mr.. RUSSELL to return to New York
or the Federal Capital 1t is, that from his fmil-
iarity with the Sepoy war, he may be able TO COM
prehend, better than any other civilized Europeau,
the nature of the policy by which the commercial
Phianihropists of the North propose to win back
their misguided brethren" to peace, affection and
union.