The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-12

we wished to see the slave States exhaust
every conceivable effort to obtain such as
surances before they asserted that the per-
petuation of our confederacy was impossible.
We therefore urged them to unite promptly, and
prefer their complaints and demands to the people
of the North, and we condemned in warm and
explicit terms the precptate action of the seeding
States. We are compelled now to doubt the wis
dom OF our course, for we have seen nothing TO
convince US that there has ever been the faintest
disposition on the part of the North to recede
from Its aggressive position, or to halt midway in
the anti-savery crusade upon which it has so ev-
ldently entered. All appeals to Congress or to
'he Administration have alike failed. The labors
OF the Senate Committee, the House Committee,
the Border State Committee and the Peace Con-
gress, have been treated with equal contempt by
Inc dominant party. 1t has been unmoved by
the threatening attitude of the Gulf States, and by
the remonstrances of the Border States, for it has
supposed it could conquer the former and cajole
the latter. The PRESIDENT has manifested the
same infexbe resolution. He announced
in his inaugural address his purpose to
disregard the decision of the supreme tribunal
of the country, and he will of course appoint men
TO every territorial office, judicial and executive
who will treat it with similar contempt. He has
surrounded himself with advisers who have long
looked forward to the irrepressible conflict and
who desire to make no compromise with slavery
He has utterly ignored the slave States since he has
been in office, and as if to indicate the slight i'm
portance he attaches to the opinion of their PEG
pie, he has appointed as our representatives abroad
ANsoN BURLNGAME, who blasphemously clamors
for an "anti-slavery Bible and anti-s!avery GoD,"
JOSHUA K. GIDDINGs, who has declared that every
man who attempts to execute the Fugitive Slave
Act ought 10 be hanged outright by the negroes,
JAMES ). PIKE, who, month ago, threatened the
South with a serve Instruction, CARL SEIZURE,
who has cursed the fathers of the Republic because
they did not make negroes our political equals,
and some half dozen other fanatics of the same
extreme class Such is the government to which
the South is now referred for protection and re-
dress. We must admit then that the events of the
past few months go far to vindicate the wisdom and
prudence of the policy pursued by the seeding
States. We are now altogether satisfied that it is
useless TO expect the abolition faction, with the
army, navy and treasury at its back, to make,
willingly, concessions which it would not grant
when it was comparatively weak; and the South
| cannot remain united with the North, and still
procure such guarantees as will suffice to protect
it against future aggression, unless il EFFORTS
them.
Under all the circumstances to which we have
here referred, we cannot say that the Confederate
States had not good and sufficient reasons for dis
severing their connection with the North. On
the contrary, we do solemnly believe their cause
to be as just one as men ever battled for in any
age or nation. The South has never sought to
assall the institutions of the free States, nor to
annoy or injure their people; while the wrongs it
has endured at the hands of those who should
have been lis firmest friends surpass those nfic-
ed upon her colonists by England, and the rights
OF whose violation it complains are of that clearly
defined class which eyen an absolute monarch
would have respected. Before, therefore, the war
upon the Confederate States puts an end to further
debate upon these questions and closes the door
to reconciliation between hostile brethren, we
would here record our convictions that right and
justice are on the side of the South, and that
whatever be the issue of the contest, our sympa-
thies are with her people