The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-13


of the most barefaced kind; the suppression Of
every species of testimony which might serve to
enlighten the Northern people in regard to the
true state of affairs at the South; perversion of
statement, and the publication of narratives so
grossly and VIGOROUSLY false to tax creduty to
the uttermos il these are the only weapons in the
armory of Northern journalists, and more par
ticulaGly those Of New York. then indeed must the
cause which they spouse be alike disreputable
and indefensible. They have persisently, and in
the face Of the most undeniable evidence to the
contrary, chroniced, time and again, the slaugh-
ter of nearly two hundred of the Confederate
troops in Fort Moultrie, by the guns of SUMTER
and have, by every species of refrigeration, sought
to delude their readers with the belief that the
UNION sentiment largely predominates in the States
that have seeded, and that the presence there of
Federal troops is alone necessary suppress every
symptom of the insurrectonary spirit which they
are obliged to confess exists in some localities but
which they have been in the habit of asserting is
of limited extent and is the work of few poiti-
cal conspirators. State after State has gone out
Of the UNION and they have still affected to believe
that the rebellious citizens were but few in num-
ber and that those few overawed the great bu k Of
the people to whom they ascribe an un1inching
devotion to the old Federal Union, and TO the
Constitution as interpreted by LINCOLN and ex
pounded by his Republican supporters. By art
full appeals to the passions, the prejudices, and
the patriotism of the North, they have succeeded
in inducing many thousands of ignorant and sus-
ceptible volunteers to engage in a crusade against
the South on the specious plea of indicating the
laws, knowing full well that the ruling mo-
tive of the capitalists and merchants and politi-
Clans who sustain and encourage the war is COM
mercal and sectional domination Every possible
form of argument that INSCRIPTIONS and ingeni-
Gus minds could suggest, has been made use of to
stimulate the ardor of the volunteers and to hasten
their enrolment. At first it was the Federal capt.
tai that was in danger of being seized by secret
bands of conspiraors in Maryland and Virginia.
and plots of the most diabolical character were
alleged to have been discovered which never had
any existence but in the fertile brains of few men
who hoped by simple lying to attain to popular
notoriety, and-as in the case of Mr. Superinten-
dent kENNEDY-tOa good fat office under the LIN
COLIN Administration. Facts which have recently
transpred, when taken in connection with the
confessions Of quite a number Of the men who are
now under arms in Washington, leave us no rea-
son to doubt that they have been grossly deceived
as to the true condition of affairs at the South or
the real intention of the Federal authorities That
some of the men who were thus deluded have re-
fused to take the oath which the Government, in
its excessive caution, has caused to be framed to
test the loyalty of its supporters, is too well
known 10 need more than passing reference; that
many others would have done likewise, but for
the moral cowardce which restrained them from
refusing it, is also freely admitted and it is like
wise matter of public notoriety that considera-
BILE portion of the volunteers who were ostensby
called into service for three months, consented only
to take up arms for thirty days, and that not one
fourth of the number now congregated at Wash
ingon could be induced to cross the Potomac
and carry the war into Virginia. They have
learned much since they left home, and they will
scarcely fail, when their period of service expires,
to profit by this increase of knowledge These
truths too, the New York journalists are begin
ming to appreciate, now that the excitement which
they have so materially aided in raising, is grad
ualy giving way, and reaction has set in. The
New York Times significantly intimates that the
purposes for which the three months volunteers
were called out has been accomplished; that their
services will not be needed much longer: that
they hare performed all that was expected of
them; that they have shown that the North is an
unit in support of the Governments and that, hay
ing periodically marched to Washington, there is
nothing left for them to do but to patriotcally
march back again. What will next be needed
says the Times, will be the forty thousand volun-
teers whom Mr.. LINCOLN has called out to serve
for a term of three years; and as it is probable
that sufficient number of Americans cannot be
prevailed upon to enlist for actual invasion Of
the SJuth-which would be by no means holi-
day ousiness-lt is discreety suggested that from
'seven to ten thousand of the Germans in New
york, who were subjected to military train
ing in their native country, might possibly be
had; and we presume that the remaining thirty or
thirty-three thousand are also to be of German,
or at least Of foreign extraction. We trust that
the preference which is thus given to the German
'elemen" will have its due weight with the par
ticular class of our population that is so conspicu-
ously singled out as the most appropriate oppo-
nent of the South, especially as the New York
Tribune confeSses that it has grievously under
ialeu Tue strength vi SOUTHERN movement, ana
the military power and efficiency of the Southern
States 1t, therefore, warns the Northern peopl
vi the desperate nature of the struggle in which
'ney are ABOUT to be engaged, and gravely ad-
mon'Snes them that ''they cannot make too great
preparations to meet it." We also are of a SIM
liar opinion, and we admire the mora tho u;so
precauoa of the Times, which would saddle mon
the Germans of New York and elsewhere tho at,...
of fighting the Northern battle. # 10 - ~
events, gratifying to discover that those ;orr,o,
lists, who have been guilty of the grossest decen-
tions towards their readers, are at length con
strained to take something like right view of
things; and that they are fast coming to the con-
cluson that if the North is to be beaten by the
South in the conflict that is impending, it will
certainly be pleasanter to reflect, in after days,
thai it was the Germans who were the sufferers,
and that the Northern people proper-those who
are "native and to the manor born''-were only
punished-vcariously
IF Governor Hicks has not now disabused his
mind Of the milton that MARYLAND oo,1J