The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-02
A FRANK AND MANLY ARTICLE

VI.
We engaged ia bitter,
bloody and devastating civil war, with all the re-
sources OF both parts of the nation rapidly becom-
ing involved in it. Our duty to ourselves and IN
our children, to civilization, to man and to God
demands that we task utmost wisdom and fore
cast IN estimating the objects of this war Alright
Nay, more; that duty demands Of us not merely
that we should ascertain the rightiulness of its OBJ
Jects, but also that we should have an assured NOR
al conviction that the right means are used to ac
cOmplish those objects. ::
If one were to state the rigaffuy objects of this
war to be the preservation of the CAPITAL of the
United States, and the vndication of the authority
OF the Union against the doctrine of State seces
sion, no reasonable man could dissent from the
proposition The vindication of that authority and
no res.or ason OF the seeded States to the Union
are one and the same thing. i
IL there Is reasonable probability that war will
40 1t, the means are appropriate to the end, and
the END itself is right one. If the military sub
Jecuon OF the South is not probable, or if, being
proCaDe, It is not likely to be followed by state
OF things, which will again make such a system as
the American Union practicable government, then
me means are not appropriate TO he end, and She end
Sh0htd he sought frs oVHse other mode.
with regard to the first of these conditions N n
PROBABILITY OF the military coercion of the South
opinions may differ. The public mind has been so
poisoned with deliberate incubation of contan,nt
Tor our adversaries and their resources that even
the government has been driven to the sacrifice of
lives which the public could i'll spare and whose
private loss is irreparable. This has been done
IF he
enemy; for there was certainly but one important
man IN office in the nation, and he the verv n1ar
on whose Judgment both the Government and tho
people should have implicitly relied. who is now
known not to have shared that delusion. Wbnthar
the orth can ultimately reduce the Soutb to s,b
MISSION, is military question, on which it wonId
Ill become mere civilians to express a confident
opinion. In all the resources OF we are the su
perlors; In courage and in military capacity the in
habitants of the two sections are nrohahir anrni
put resources courage and military skill are NOT ali
mat are needed to and hold IN suJection so
east country as the seeded States If the ,eoDe of
that country are united and determined Thai t5cI,
haze become united and DETERMINED is apparent and
tas only encouraging aischicrous and fatal deaom
to pretend the contrary.
But, assuming that it will be in the power of our
government to take military possession of tha
South, there lies back of all that another orast;o
mat question as, aohether the american Union no
ace haze hno'cn at, as 1t aoas destined IN he and
as atone u can be regarded q practicable systcn
q government, can sbe restored by such npeoDe2 -
sound opinion on this subject must denend gre,.I
On tue nature OF the Union, and on the princinles
on which the practical exercise of its authority
necessarily rests, i's
me Government of the United States does not
rest upon force, and its authority cannot be ever
cisco through military means. Its laws hind tho
person and property of the citizen but his nerSon
ana property can be reached only through the
Juuica. lriounas. lts local administration, in any
and every State, must be carried ON by local ocar
ana the people must voluntarily particinate in ems
tanning the representative machinery bv which lie
central administration is kept alive The mon.
athn uiesy Vi STATE secession, or the pretended
authority OF State to release its citizapc fron,
their legal and moral obligation to obey the laws If
tne united states, IS not more inconsistent with
the true character of our system than ia the idaa
.nat tne laws OF the United States can be admins
Iered without the voluntary cooperation of tba
people, The monstrous character of tha sacossinr
.ueory ooes not alter the fact that every State
possesses government, and therefore possesses an
sanileu ana powerful means Of resistance rebel
hon and revolution. ''''
Let 1t be supposed, then, that the seeded States
are 9Ferrun oy military power and completely sub
ueu' "Hot reason ectSts for erpectinq that q men,
PIE MnS conquered oW voluntarily return TO the erer
clSe o. those ctUit functions oitbout ,rJ;ch ,be - l.
no Cnaon and no reliable exercise of The oUtbo;t |
ne on.on among them! When the hate enrardogrod
Ny military conquest has become a passion IN he
transmitted as a sacred duty of.patriotism from
generation to generation, who can look for that ~
tlclpaion of the people in the civil dutes and
Vi the Union, without which the Federal Govern
ment is no Government at all? If YOU limit vonr.
sell TO the collection of your revenues whnra I'LL
you get Judges and jurors to enforce vonr for |
elluresI Ii you enforce them by military mower |
'nat VIII your government become Int n';tory
government! II you can effect the CONQUEST at ali
low can you expect to do it without maxine sncb
upon tne state governments and the State
'eople VIII be broken down? If you can hold The
eopSe IN "n0itting subiugation, Hose can you do IL
guhoW destroying their acknowledged constitutional
lghts! And when this is done to ten or more Statos |
t one end of the Union who can exnect that tbs
haracter OF our Federal system will remain what
ur fathers made it, and what we have so bount; |
uy enjoyed?
4" aUhistory, there has never been on instance of
iree people, once participating in the voluntary ad
o. a free popular gorcrnment acho hare
,,entJ', ~ me" connection Nth 1t, and have subse
Towye oeem Jofced to resume 1t By military conquest
onquest NAV be- as !. ana lawful. in theory, such
% 1
rely unsuited to the end. In the netra GU
ius1 ieave enects which will put the and t;ii |
oi u an IL was before the Consequence as
Itemptea. We need not ask if the TInio, l:n was
'ieraoe to the South, when they are tbns o oe
Iered. w Ill 1t be tolerable to ourselyesP IL |
e successfully and safely hold in military subian
oh sucn portion OF our common country? Can |
undertake to Go it, without creating a militarv
'Wer, IN which our own liberties must be meroed9
A FEMALE SPY.-A correspondent of the Cincin-
VI commercial writes from Colonel Guthrie's
giment: 'NAie
on Sunday last we discovered female soldisr :,
e M Gamp-she enlisted in company D. on the 10th
May last and has been doing soldier dntv avar
'ee On all the long marches we have made che
5 carried her musket and knapsack the whnIe "
ne, ana mas never complained or Jagged behind
Is astonishing to every one how she stood IN | n
On being closely questioned, she confessed that |
was spy, and IN constant communication with | :.
reoels-that she is member of the Knights of 81
Golden Circle, and through that order, members
winch she finds everywhere, she has found the
ans oil forwarding her letters to the rebels
. says she knew full well that the penalty for g.
ng spy was death, and that she is ready when 81 81
sonar sv ",sn 20 shoot her, She has been kept
nbus for safe keeping. ''' afueu TO TO- RI
me blackberry crop is of so much importaroo ~ .,
ohlo river that the mail boats recentIv channo5
1T IT. time of starting from Louisville one hour A,
ner, to accommodate the shippers of blacLr al
ries along the line of the river from Madison ~
lcinnati. -D"uison 10
me N. Y. Tribune says, speaking of the ouali6. H.