The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-09-06
BALTIMORE.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER G, 1861.

When the Federal Government determined to
preserve the Union between the North and South
by force, and when it decided TO resort not merely
10 those coerciye measures which the Northern
people believed 10 be jastifable and constitutional
but 10 adopt all such arbitrary and violent means
as seemed most likely to intimidate and subiugate
the South, we yentured to predict the result. We
were perfectly satisfied that C the Administration,
backed by the 'higher law" party in the North,
took enc clearly illegal step il would soon be
tempted or compelled 10 strengthen its inderensi-
bic position ny further unwarrantable agsump-
tons Of power; and that usnrpaton would follow
uFurpati0r, until the laws and the Constitution
would practically cease TO exist. We were equally
convinced that such course upon the part Of the
Administration would drive the hostile sections
into still hiterer antagonsm,, and render the re.
struction Of ,he Union forever hopeless. Events
have but too surely confirmed the tcnth of these
con 'lu7ious. Having exceeded the limits Of his
authority when he summoned the militia OF the
North 10 arms in order to reduce the South to obc-
diencr and having found that the people of that
section were willing TO sustain him, Mr. LINCOLN
no longer troubled himself about the lawfulness
or upawfulncs5 Of his acts. Whatever he has
deemed il necessary or convenient TO do, he has
done without the slightest hesitation, knowing
that he was hourly violating in The most fragrant
aud shameless way, the provisions Of the Const-
Triton 10 which he had so|amnly sworn to con-
form. How rapidly those cncfoachmens upon
the liberties Of The people have succeeded each
other, is nov = matter Of history. The President
stands clothed to-day with al the powers which
but II short time ago, were welded respectively
by The executive, legislative and iadicia depart
ments oGthe Government, The country is engaged
in n war which has been Illegally begun its
laws have been insolcntly abrogated; its courts
are closed 10 those who seek protection against the
expressions of the Petliest undcrstrapper in the
Presidents service: its press is muzzled in its most
populous end wealthy city; its citizens are drag
ged from their homes, and hayonets keep guard
over them in the wretched dungeons to which
they are consjgrod and TO he suspected of "dis-
loyal sentiments by federal detective is to incur
the risk OF summary and ignominious punishment
The Northern people are at this moment fawning
or crouchiag at the feet Of dictator who is more
absolute than the Bourbons or Romanofs whom
they teach their children to eyccrate.
But what has been done meanwhile towards re-
constructing the Union? How has the course o.
the Administration affected that question? The
Southern people have simply been driven into
position Of more determined hostility to the North
The "Union men' Of that section were staggered
when Mr.. LINCOLN, upon his installation in Office
appointed the most finatical and yindicliye enc
miss Of the South to represent the country abroad
and they lost all faith in his professions of modera
I
Of the Constitution, and began to believe that h
would unscrupuoasy overthrow it, whenever il
his Judgment his conscience or hiI country's GOO
demanded its subversion. They have p aston
ished at the outrages perpatrared by his imam,
upon lie individuals who have dared to oppog
his policy; and they have ceased to RELY upon hi
personal integrity. But his deliberate thoug'
covert attacks upon their Institutions have nov
united the Southern people, rs one man, i
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ment. They have seen clearly enough throug
the fimsy DISCUSSES under which the Presi
dent and his partisans have sought to con
ceal the purposes of the Administration. =
When General BUTLER resorted 10 the suhterfuo
of declaring negroes conuabaud of war, th
Southern people understood The consequences O
that declaration. They knew that all distinction
between "Unionn and 'secession" owners youI,
soon be lost sight Of; and they now learn tina
the acute warrior who invented the tricl, has nov
some eighteen hundred negroes with him, wht
will eventually he turned loose without regard IL
the political procliyics or acts Of their mas tcrs
When Congress passed the coufscation bill. every
man in the slave States saw that the purpose wa;
to furnish for future use, some plausible pretex
for striking blow at the Institutions Of The South
and the conduct Of the Federal soldiers has proved
the justice Of this conclusion, fer they have car,
red off negroes from every State, be it lo7al OF
unloya} in which they have been stationed, and
have o7entatioEsly paraded these dupts or floi-
tircs through the streets of Washington. Gene
raj FnE'IoNT's action in Missouri has but carried
The Government one step further towards the
point to which il h Leen steadily anproachinc.
His proclamation IS virtually IN act of cmancpa-
ton which will become instqntlT operative in
every State in which the Federal armies obtain a
ioohold. It ia obvious that the 'rUnion'' planter
IN Missouri is ruined when the negroes OF his
secession nejghbor9 are set free all around him
1t is manifest that when the slaves of nineteenth
OF the people of Virginia are cmancipated, Mary
,
escape similar fate. But il is needless to adduct
arguments to demonstrate an apparent fact
ana one which IS, moreover, conceded ly
ali the leading journals of the North
They all admit that the necessary result
OF this war is the emancipation of the ne
groes, and they all rejoice that it is so. Til,
people of the South, never having been, for an in
slant blind to the inevitable tendency of events
now see the threatened bow about to fall The
know that, if they are now subjugated, the South
ern States must be, thenceforth, governed by Gen
erals and garrisons from the North who mus
regard the whites and the blacks alike as suhiec
races. The great mass Of the negroes will b
forced TO remain in the States where they ar
found, and they viii there dispute possession O
the soil with the remnant Of Southern men Wilt
could, under such crcums tances, still cling Il
their native land. Such is the plain prospec
which the South has before it, and Tor this it la;
to thank Mr., LINCOLN. Is ii any wonder that the
people of the slave States have ceased to regard
ours as the "best Government on EARTH" that
they persist in believing their rights in jeopardy
under this Administration; that they have lost all
confidence in the justice or good will of their
Northern brethren? Is it strange they should
apprehend that the Government will resort to the
most desperate measures to ruin them, when il
hnds IT cannot otherwise make them ohedient to
It's VIII After what they have alread4 witnessed
is it surprising they should now expect Mr.. LIN
COINS Generals to incite the negroes to insprrso-
ton and offer them arms when it is seen tina. the
South can be conquered in no other way? Such,
we are satisfied, are the views, the fe lings, and
the fears Of ninety-nine hundreiths of The South
ern people to-day, and for this condition of things
Mr.. LINCOLN is responsible He has, by his arbi-
trary, aggressive, and fanatical course converted
millions Of moderate men into mortal foes, and he
has nothing left for it but TO deal with them as
such. He must make peace with or conquer
them, for he has effectually put an end to all pos
sibility Of q reconstruction of the Union, on The
basis on which it was established little twelve
month ago.
BoMBAsTEs FURIoso BUTLER, proud of his latest
exploit at Hatteras Inlet, and DESTROYS of raaping
the full reward of service in which, although he
exposed himself to personal danger, he gallant
ly appropriated all the honorg, has gone TO Bas-
ton in search of an ovation He will get it, The