The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-20


pute from eliminating in Il desperate and SAN
culinary struggle. And if they shall find that
they have been induced, by blind or selfish coun-
sellers, TO enter upon hopeless and ruinous con-
test, they will speedily bestir themselves about
the work Of retrbution. Woe be, then, to the
laundering demagogues, the rabid fanatics and the
inscriptions partisans who sowed the seeds of
these discussions, and who have dashed the North
ern mind into an uugovernable and suicidal
frenzy. When the period for reflection
comes, as come it inevitably will, the North
was that for year after year their preachers
Numbered from their pulpits about the sin of
slavery; why Christian sects withdrew from all
communion with their co-religionists of the South;
why the most venal journalists denounced all
Shareholders as the most brutal and depraved Of
mankind; why politicians in Maine and IIassa-
chusetts acclaimed continually against the institu-
tons of Georgia and Carolina; why Congressman
harangued about putting 'girdle of fire around
the slave Sates;' why Legislatures and Gov
ernors sought to render imperative constitutional
laws which passed for the protection citizens
Of the South; and why party had undertaken to
exclude shareholders from our common territory in
defiance of a solemn decision of the Supreme
Court. 1t may then occur to the Northern people
that what had been so often told them was after
all the truth and that these multiplied insults and
aggressions had gradually aud not unnaturallv
alienated and embittered their Southern brethren.
Ihey Will then recollect how their leaders told
them that they ran no risk in doing the South
these grevious wrongs, and assured them that ii
was powerless to resist because it was dependept
upon the North, and lis slaves moreover were
always ready to rebel, and the non-slave-
holding portion of lis inhabitants were anxious
to assist in overthrowing their own insti-
tutions. They will remember how they
were taught to regard the complaints Of
| the South as unfounded and its threats
as bluster, until they had been led to elect a
| Chief Magistrate Of the Contederacy, a man who
had avowed that the political systems of tie fret
and slave States could not exist henceorth side by
| side. They will call 10 mind how the politician;
and presses of the North urged them TO refuse tc
consider the grievances of the South and TO re-
ject contemptuously its demands and having. thus
brought about an open rupture, persuaded them
to accept the Issue of civil war on the ground that
| the South could not obtain the necessary men OF
money or arms with which 10 oppose their domi-
nation. All these things the people of the North
will remember when their dsheartened and shat
| tered hosts shall have turned back from the vain
| attempt to subjugate the Southern States. When
they recognize the fact that the UNION is at an
end, and that new and independent Coniederacy
has been finally established, they cannot fail to
reflect upon the folly and madness Of their course:
and they will turn, though not for consolation, to
those to whose false suggestions and iniquitous
propositions and unprinciped schemes the separa-
ton of the States and the prosecution of bloody
war will be mainly attributable. The demagogues
and zealots of whom GREELEY and BEEcHER and
SEMNER and CHASE and SEWARD and LovEJoY are
the representatives, had better therefore make the
most of their short hour of triumph for they have
much to answer for; and it cannot now be long
before the people whom they have deceived will
call them to n terrible account