The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-06

no pluuuet line could guage the measure of HE
deoradstion? 1t is not for US to say how long
the people of this State will quietly allow Northern
soldiers to lord it over them-but we have u firm
and abiding conviction that for the violation of
their dearest rights for the seizure and possession
of their capital for the military occupation of their
public roads and private estates and for the wantOn
and malicious arrests, from which no man can claim,
under the existing despotism TO be exempt, they
will deal with the Administration as becomes a
people who have been grossly wronged, and will
hold to a strict accountability its most trucking
time-server, THOMAS HOLIDAY HICKS. What if it
be true that the suburbs of Baltimore glisen with
bayonets; that the neighboring heights are
crowned with artillery; that our public highways
are infested with Northern troops; and that on the
line of route occupied by their encampments the
people Of the county cannot pass without being
challenged by sentinels, and escorted, under
guard, from point 10 point, until they reach their
place of destination? These arbitrary mea-
sures may restrain free speech, but though
the tongue may be silent, who shall say
what thoughts are uppermost in the mind, or
how soon those thoughts will develop themselves
in action? We hold it TO be one of those truths
that are incontrovertbe, that none but Il race OF
the most ahject towards was ever held in perma-
nent subsection. gallant people may have been
placed under military domination, as we are now:
they may have been disarmed, as it is alleged that
we are now; they may have been insulted with
domlciliary visits, as we are now; they may have
been placed under a complete system OF es
pionage, as we are now; they may have been made
the victims Of party hate, of personal malignity
and of official reachery, for such has been our fate
but sooner or later they have shaken off these
membranes and triumphanty asserted their in
dependence. History is full of such examples
and the story that records the origin of our OWL
Republic is not among the least instructive or sig
nifcant. We say, then, that the position O
Maryland cannot be defined by Mr.. LINCOLN
though backed by all the power of the govern
ment, and sustained by the unanimous support o
the Northern States. Our citizens may be de-
spoiled Of their arms; but there never yet was q
| people that wanted arms who did not find then
in their hour of need. If they are loyal TO thu
| government, the presence of a military force i
not required to keep them steadfast to their al
| egiance. A just and impartial government ha
no cause to fear rebellion against its authority
1t is only when power is uulawfully exercised
when popular rights are recklessly infringed, ant
when there is evidently settled purpose, on tn
part OF the oppressor, to coerce men into submis
sion to what they feel TO be subversive alike @
their true interests, and of their prerogatives a
freemen that they are constrained to vindicat
their independence, and to adopt such measures a
will enable them TO assert it most effectually
This Maryland will do in defiance of Mr.. LINCoL
and his Northern bayonets. Every day that he
soil is occupied by foreign troops but strengthen
the feeling of bitterness which their presence ha
engendered, whilst it adds TO the number Of thos
who have arrayed themselves in opposition to
war which is bloody, harbarous, and cruel in it
inception, and which can have no other possibl
termination than permanent division of til
country between the two hostile sections.