The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-02
| From the London Times, June II

~A"bSiSAN OoNDIS lENCl,
Indignation is vexing the Americans of the
North to an extraordinary degree. Their excite
ment with regard to the secessionists is cool of
fervescence, like of their own aerated drinks
In comparison with the boiling wrath which threat
ems to overwheim our own country. Happily there
are many vents for this fermentation, and we NAV
hope that not only will there be no explosion but
that public opinion will be eventually cleared and
purified by the process. =
The secret of the disappointment of the North
erDers and of their strange display of temper is to
be found, we think, in that constant disregard of
International courtesy which has distinguished sue
cesslVe governments for many years. Elated by
the rapid gro tn of their wealth and populatio
by their successful attempts on the territory of
their neighbors, and by the knowledge that Eog-
land depended on them constantly for cotton and
periodically for food, the American people have
acquired habit of petulance and almost of ipso-
lence, in their dealings with foreign powers, which
now affects their Internationally clear and
sOund-ln questions of constitutional right 1t is
the old failing of despots, whether on a throne or
in private life, that they look on those who dis
agree with them questioning their veracitv or
insulting their character. SO with the Americans
1t seems to US, from all we hear and read that
they really and truly believe that England is COM
mittDg most hostile act by refusing to treat the
Southern privateers as pirates, and that the En-.
gIisb press takes unwarranl able liberty when it
discusses The possibility of an ultimate DISRUPTION
or even speaks of Mr.. Davis as "President of the
Confederate States" 1t has been represented that
macy during the last twenty years have been the
work OF Southern politicians; but, whoever plant.
ed or waered the bad seed, it has certainly grown
up to full uxuriapce in the North; for the opinions
expressed ON every side, and reported to be held
by the Cabinet at Washington, are as uniustiGabl.
any everadvanced in the palmy DAYS of the Union
The Americans, accustomed to make their own in
terest and feelings the standard of internatioua
law, to repudiate whatever was Inconsistent with
their claims TO universal dominion in the New
World, to support at one time the claims of au-
thority, at another the indefeasible rights of ex-
stlng maorties, to cite precedents to defy them
as it suited the cause they favored are now in all
innocence and with full belief in their own cousis.
tency, holding within six months two opposite
theories of their own Constitution, and expecting
Englishmen to change their views just as popular
feeling in the States has changed =
The government and people of this country have
retained for the most part the opinions which the
Americans themselves held and taugh us, up tc
the 18th of April, the day before the New York
hremen changed themselves to Znuaves and the
Herdtd was forced to reconsider its principles by
the appearance Of mob in front of its Office If
before that date, any English member of Parlia
ment, or any English newspaper had ventured tc
suggest that the new President should orgaoize
large standing army, blockade 5000 miles o.
coast, and invade a luurishing region at the head
of 100000 men, what ou tburst of indignation
would have met the Machiavellian COUNSEL How
we should nave been reminded that republic rest
ou the consent OF the governed, not, like the ole
! British Empire, on tyranny and taxes; that th(
| Southern States were not a HindOstan, to De re
| conquered in twelvemonth; that the people o
| New \ ork and other seats of commerce were no
| likely to make themselves catspaws to cafrv on
| Engla abolition schemes, by invading thu
| planting States and encouraging lazy nipgers +,
, rebel against their masters! In short it woulc
| have been trlumphantiy demonstrated that GU
sympathy tor the federal authority was only affect
| ed with the dlobolcal purpose of embrOiling th
two sections OF the American people. Yet because
from sudden excess of patriotic feeling, th
Northern populations are organizing a descent OF
the South, we are expected to forget all the decen
| cy and prudence of international intercourse, ant
| join in bounding on the invaders! That the peopl
of the North should be unable to control their an
| ger at finding that independent foreign powe
does commit itself to demonstrations of hostili
| ty against millions of civilized men with whom
| it has no quarrel, and whose rights to indepen
| dence, though denied, were admitted by tn
| North itself a few weeks ago, shows to what
point of irriabiity the Americans had been brough
by years of prosperity and success.
ANTI-ToBACoo ORGANIzArIoN.-An organization @
the above kind is now forming throughout France
and the that give tone to society there belon
to it, such as physicians, lawyers. savans, acade
| micians, state councors-all resolved to wage ur
| ceasing warfare that enemy to the health an
pocket of man-the weed Ii these reformers en-,
| tail its consumption, The result will he sneedil
felt in the public revenue, for the annual incom
from that source alone comes very near $40 900 O0(
CoNPLIMENTARY.-The Datly Ne,os of New Yor
says OF the Sun newspaper of that city:
In answer to correspondent, wewould state tn;
upon inquiring, we find that the Sun newspapt
Is SUN puolshec, but its small circulation is prime
paliy among our colored population. We cannt
INFORM " Enquirer whether the editor is a whit
or black man.