The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-09-09
BALTIMORE.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1861.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1861.
Draymen are not usually persons of the most
refined or acute sensibilities. There are excep-
tons, of course, for there is soil of humanity in
which its most delicate flowers will not sometimes
blossom. But, on the whole, rough men apt
to have rough ideas and feelings, and they who,
as the Son of Sirach tells Us, "trust TO their
"hands," cannot as q general rule, he further
tells us, ''declare justice and Judgment" But
there are certain vigorous impulses which are apt
to be most sturdy in the toughest bosoms. The
sense OF freedom and fair-play; the sense of re-
sistance to gratuitops insult and the overbearnr
insolence of power; the brave uprising of the
heart and uplifting Of the arm, in defence of weak
ness overpowered and Observation-Disclosures are
developed often, in their manifest proportions,
among ''pain people, When, therefore, the Field
Marshal, Baron HAYNAu, was beaten nigh to
death by the draymen Of the brewery OF BARCLAY
& PERKINS in Loudon--when he was dragged
through the mud of the streets, by his long
moustaches, and kicked and cuifed into a KENNEL
in spite Of the police-the press of free England
welcomed and appauded the outbreak of indg-
toll had indicated humanity Baron HAYNAu
had done them, personally, no harm, and there
vas no danger that he could ever do them any,
He foreign nobeman-an officer of a foreign
service-and he had never laid hands in violence
Or insult upon man or woman who spoke their Ian
guage or had blood akin to theirs. Against him
therefore they could have no cause of personal ha-
tired or enmjty whatsoever. But, as the servant of
his Austrian master-as Governor of Pesth far off
IN HungarF-he had outraged those common in
shnctq which make the whole world kim He had
imprisoned and brutally treated, and sometimes
murdered unormed and helpless men, for no other
crime than the opinions which they entertained,
or were suspected Of entertaining. He had ar
rested, searched and imprisoned young girls and
women, and immature boys, for wearing obnoxi-
Gus coors, or hummng forbidden airs, or for
suspicious opinions and political proclivities. 1t
was even saidthough for manhood's sake it is to
he hoped uniTuly-that he had CAUSED women 10
he stripped and fegged for the suspected disoy-
atty Of themselves, their husbands, or their chill
dTen. It was against all these enormities that the
generous Anglo-Saxon spirit of the London brew
ers and draymen revolted, and it mattered not to
their sturdy sensibilities, that the men and the
women who had suffered them, were MGffARs
whom they have never seen or known The
crime Of HAYEAU was a crime against humanity,
and in their rough way, those rough, indignant
men ielt their hearts stirred TO punish it, They
violated the laws OF their own country in doing so,
but they took The consequences. They rendered
it impossible for any such ruGian to venture again
md
reached even the moral sensibilily of despotism,
ana rendered the preparation of such ourages
again, IN the face Of civilized Europe, improbable
not impossible. What the Government of Eng
and could not Teach-those rude brewers hands
reached and remeded.
Baron HAYNAU has never done the United States
Tie honor Of visit. KossUTH came in his stead
We all remember. how be was welcomed and
honored, and we can imagine the reception which
those who honored and welcomed him wonld have
given to HAYNAU. What would KossuTH have said
IN those eloquent speeches of his, if he had been
told that Washington would soon be the centre of
a police-system copied from The ~ stem of HAYsAu
at Pesth? If in going through the streets of the
Federal capital with Mr. WEBSTER, he had been
told, by his distinguished guide, that a certain
dwelling house they were passing would in a few
years be filled, as prison, with women arrested
for political offenceg-what would have been his
comment What would he have said if he had
been further told, that not only in Washington,
but in Baltimore and elsewhere women-virtuous
refined, pure-minded 8omen-suspected of dislov-
alty-woud be arrested, searched, stripped-shut
up as prisoners in the custody of men-attended
q c Dris nv
were men themselves? Suppose he had been told
that not only would articles of dress, of forbidden
colors, be torn from the persons of men on the
public streets by policemen, under Government,
authority, but from the bosoms of women and
girls also-that little children would be assailed
because of their stockings and their ribbons and
war be made on their mothers and nurses. for
daring to clothe them in garments of unlawful
stripe. Would he have believed it, if one had
come from the dead to prophesy it2 Would he
have credited any revelation that so foretold the
approach OF HAYNAU to the chair of WASHINGTON
Nay, it, knowing the temptations aud the proclivi-
ties ofpower he had believed possible for our
rnlers to attempt such things, could he have been
convinced that "inhuentia and honorable citizens,
anywhere would connive at and applaud them
that the sense of shame and manhood among any
portion of our people would die so sudden and
disgraceful death2 We can imagine the Hun
garian leader, at the thought of such a prospect,
turning, disguised, in quest of freedom and ciyili
cation, from the shores of ;'the model republic
to the beer breweres and trnchmen of London
Of the existence, in our midst, of the stare of
things to which we have alluded our readers are.
IN part, informed, as we'll as ourselves. Delicacy
and respect to female sensibility and public de-
cency, have forbidden US to give publicity to cir.
cumstances of aggravated outrage brought to our
knowledge as journalists, the very thought of
winch would lindle, almost to frenzy, the blood
OF every man who reverences the sanctity that is
around mother, sister, wife, and daughter. Even
the sacredness of private feeling cannot keep such
things secret much longer. All the contrivances
OF power cannot make men endure them, unless
HAYNAU's story is without moral.
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