The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-28
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
Special Correspondence Of The DAILY Exchange.
REVULSION OF FEELING IN PENNSYLs


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Seizure of Democratic Organs--Party SepaTa-
ION and Secession among the TrOOps--The
democrats Rebeiiing--Ansry Excitement.
NoERIsTowN, Pa, Aug. 26, 1861.
DEAR SIG:-A great excitement exists in differ
ent parts Of Pennsylvania just now, and you need
not be surprised to hear of stirring scenes before
many days What would you think if the State
should pattern after Missouri? And vet have
heard Republicans and Democrats freely suggest
the idea. Hitherto Democrats have furnished the
majority, if not two-thirds of the volunteers
They now refuse, and the consequences is that SOL
diers hard to get. Officers are plenty, but men
are scarce. The reason s that Republican Journals
have taken high ground in denUuncing Democrats
as disunionlsts until many good Union men have
almost been driven into the secession idea.
But the great operating cause now is the action
! OF the authorities at Washington in attempting to
| drive Democrats into the Republican ranks, under
the cry OF "no party" This will not be submitted
to, and IN every county whero the Democrats
strike for the old Democratic doctrine, the edict
| has gone forth from Washington that Democratic
| organs must be "cODfsCatcd." Several papers,
understand, have already been seized by the Mar
| shall.
The Easton Sentinel was mobbed and destroyed
on Monday last, and the result in old Northampton
is terrible state of bad feeling.
The Jefersonidn, West Chester, was also destroy
| ed by secretly organized mob at midnight on the
same day. Ga the next day passed through,
rather into the village, and the excitement ran
very high. This is a State camping ground, and
| parts of two companies organizing to make up a
| regiment were almost broken up by the attack
| the Jefer8oHian office. Out of about $50 to 10,
one Lieutenant and fifty men withdrew their names,
declaring that if such was to be the order, the Re
! publtcans might fight their battles. The feel
| ing ran so high that immense patrol, armed
with rifles and muskets, has been kept up to pre-
vent an attack upLn the borough, while depositors
| have withdrawn their names from the bank.-
| Since, understand, the Marshal has closed the
| Office of the Jefersonidn, though the materials
were destroyed This has increased the excitement
| through the county to high fever. If this goes
on, you may take it for granted that Uncle Sam
Can get no more Democratic soldiers, or in fact
any kind, for they will be needed at home.
| This is blind policy The Administration had
| better not rain mischief in Pennsylvania. The
| Democrats there are Union men to man, but
| many-Very many-are anxious tor a restoration
OF peace on any terms that will secure Union and
honor to the nation. Yours, &c, |. W.
We call the attention of our readers to the fol-
lowing able remarks from the New York Daily
Neos Of Monday, on the nsensate policy of gagging
the free press of the North. 1t is an appeal to
reason which even the prevailing unreasou must
| be reckless to reject:
| The Probable Result of Supprcssin. the
Peace Press,
To affirm that the Peace Press has created a
| Peace party in the North, is simply to state the
| converse of the truth; the power of the Peace
Press grown from the power of the party that sup
ports it. That party will exist, with all its ee-
ments of strength, after its natural moutbpieces
| shall have been utterly senced by the admins
| trative power. When its legitimate channels OF
| inter-communication shall have been ''dammed,
| like the dull canal, with locks and chains" the
waters will rise and grow turbulent, seeking every
where some vent through which to burst from their
| confinement. When men, accustomed and entitled
to free thought and the free expression of thought
find themselves under ban, stripped of their priv
leges like outlaws and marked for suspicion and pub
lie execrati0n like colony ofepers the ties Of ani-
| ty among them will be strengthened, and secret
| sympathy will make secret combination. The fir
that blazes in full view confined within the bars of
grate, is harmless; but the Goals that burn in hid
| den places may start general confagration. The
| strength of the party that oppose the policy is
| acknowledged BY the Administration in the very
! act of the suppression Of Peace journals. While
| those journals served a vent through which the
| effeTvescenCe of excitement might escape, there
was danger of sught except straightforward
| remonstrance and bold, open criticism; but when
the heavy hani is set upon the salety-Talve there
| is no knowing when an explosion may occur.
| The statesman is but shallow judge of human
nature and but imperfect digestor of the history
| Of the past, who imagines that persecution will
cancel contrarety of opinion, that enforced reti
cence will check the propagation OF creed. II the
doctrine be false, it will make converts OUT of oppo
sition more readily than out of tolerance. Better
let it "bud ripen, faunt" in the day. end burst to
fruit-"the Dead Seas fruit of ashes" 1t it be
true, il will thrive and gather pToseyteg in spite
Of the ban of churches, courts or rulers. There is
fascination in forbidden fruit and where the legal
sources Of information scaled up, the thirst for
knowledge will but be excited, and the ingenuity
Of man wilt hnd or make an aperture through
which the interdicted waters may be reached.
When cur thousands of subscribers miss their
daily intellectual food, they will sympathze with
US, and against the power by which their custom
arv supplies are interrupted. Where they were
before but listeners and disciples, they will be-
come apostles For every word published in
tho face OF day, two will be spoken in secret, with
| az FaiJ
throughout the North, aud collisions will be fre-
quent. Like troops without leader, the Peace
party, deprived Of the vehicles which brought
them good counsel and lessons of moderation and
forbearance will be tempted to overstep the bound
| aries of law and order as the mObs of the War
party have already done.
Dimly, but not far away in the distance, W 9 see
cloud that threatens danger, which we would avert
but cannot, for we are manacled. When it bursts,
should turbulence, riot and conflict be scattered
over the North--shOud blood be shed other than
Southern sOil-let our words, heretofore, now, and
hereafter, while speech is allowed US, bear wit.
ness that we have cUunseled, do counsel and will
counsel, more of the spirit OF conciliation every
where and less of that harshness, npionatireness,
; and impacability which rritate without convinc-
ing, and provoke without subduiDg.
Again c0Djure the friends of the Peace party
I to abstain from all action that may not have the
: fullest sanction of the law. While we wouIi not
have them resign one privilege of an American
citizen, yet we would not have them strain the law
hairs breadth to support their dearest rights.
Leave the destruction Of private property the
ring and eatheriDg, the violence the mob5ing, the
P trampling upon the Constitution, the breaking ur
. of peaceable gatherings, the threats the denuncia
tons, and the outrages, to the partisans of the Ad
+. minstratnn. To speak ones honest convictions
! freely and boldly, but always with decency, anC
| with respect for the opinions OF others, is not il
legal; and we have sufficient faith in the strength
: aud determination OF the Peace party to believe
that even without representative press, they car
J; make headway against usurpation and tanaticlsm
III rgla t,pir
y without violating principle ofpropriety equity
u morality, or law.
The Blood of the Martyrs the Seed Of the
f Church.
g Under this head the st. joseph's Gazette of tn
10Th inst, demonstrates the effect of the rampan
despotsm of Lncon's representatives in Missouri
O When Frank Blair, Lyon & Co., began thre
I months ago to take of the Union interests o
d this State they found staunch Union majority il
4 the State, who had Just elected a Union Convention
. | by many thousands.
Their system of preserving the Union was tn
commission of spoation, Outrages and persecution
by means of armed soldiery upon all persons of op
e posing sentiments towards whom malice shou
point the finger of hate. The expression of prlyat
opinion.was gagged-public presses were suppresss
- men chased from their homes and through III
I. country, captured like wild beasts, and a genera
reign Of terror spread through the State bv band
| of hreling soldiery from neghboring States
against whom Missouri had never offended, tha
A | drove the thousands to JacksOns army, and wb
N have Just avenged themselves by the destruction
Lyon and his army. Outrages upon Missouri hav
h proved Dragons Teeth, sprnging up into arme
: men for the destruction of Federal armies.
i Every free press yet suppressed, has, like SamT
n son. caused more destruction to its enemies in it
+ death than during its whole life. The suppresSiO
n of every press yet has been worth regiment
If armed men to the cause of its friends Half tn
! men now in arms in Missouri against the FEEDER;
a authorities, were Union six months ago.
j. Then who the real disunionists? Are they nC
W those who drive Union men to join the SeceSsio
Of army.
g, From the Boston Daily Advertiser.
# Fishermen PrivateeTs.
20 While Gloucester fishermen becOmin
r inpatient as we lately showed, others in the sam
n. business, through f. w. Hinman, ot New Iorl
h. have applied directly to the administration for
a. ployment against the privateers They ask smpl
in for the offer of bounty for the capture of priv
teers under such conditions as the government pr
fers.
S. We are unable to see any objections to this pla
n The men are out of employment, and are just K
be men for the service they have two thousand Vo
as sells various sizes, but all smsl-many of the
last, light and just the thing for chasing privatee
1t among the shoals and nlets of the Southern cOas
By Armed with one rifed gun each and with plenty
sci small arms, feet of these little craft manned
in the sturdy fishermen would give good account
he itself. Halt dozen Of them would encircle Il
p Sumter in net from hch she would never escap
while sngle-hsnded they would not hesitate TO col
IRE with the JEFF. Davis, wi privateers of the ella
he of the Savannah and Petrol, taken destroyed
gn our feet. Offer these sto1t fellows fair b0unt
srs give them good chance in their own vessels al