The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-11
A NORTHERN MANN THE SOUTH.
WYrHEvILLE, Wythe county, Va, !

May, 1861.
Gentlemea:-As has always been the case. the
North and South cannot understand each other
Errors and Misrepresentation are circulated and
believed rather than truth; and Providence only
knows what will be the result.
As we understand it, the South have never con
temEa aed invading the territory of the North, nor
purposed to pull down their government. The
South has organized a government for themselves,
and it Is government de fdcto, whether acknow-
| lodged by the United States not. We coucede
| the North is united to a man, and whatever may
have been past differences here the people imme-
| diately upon the attempt of Lincoln to provision
| Fort Sumter became united to man. The North
will furnish men and money; so will the South.
| Already in Virginia over 200 volunteers have
! offered their services, and | do not suppose in the
| history of the world any people produced a
determined and efficient force to protect their
| homes and their fresideS. Men, women and chill
dren, all believe their rights invaded. North Caro-
lima and Tennessee are also up in the same spirit.
1t is the purposes of the Confederate States
| to maintain the forts and public property within
| their own borders If they are invaded, Heaven
| only knows the consequences. | firmly believe
every man from Is to 65 will go into the field, and
| die before surrenderng their rights. ! am a ma
tive of New York, have been here 20 years, know
each section well, the characteristics of each and
let say that this people cannot be subdued by
the whole world. They feel keenLy and deeply that
they are wrOnged (whether it is really so or not
will not not dscuss,) yet they feel it. and they
| brave, noble race of men. They will spend the
last dollar and the last drop of blood in this cause.
| They will never surrender their rights, and will
not trample on others rights. The war will cost
five dollars and five Northern men to one South
ern What with the climate and distance the
Northern men have to travel, and the lighting in
a enemy's country, the odds will be mOre than
the number stated.
The North are also aboring under another mis-
take, to arms and ammunition. Arms Every
man has them, and every man and boy is well prac-
tised in the of them. At this very time, in a
section of country not half as large as that YOU al
lude to in your accounts, of men volunteering and
money raised in New York, there are 10 companies
here to one there, and as much money subscribed:
After all the is expended, lives and proper
ty wasted, what then? Suppose YOU to over
run the whole land (Which you cannot) what then?
You would have hat you have now, what want
you to have, a Goyernment-but you would not
then have a Republican Government, but tempo
rary Republican despotism. Then why not ac-
knowledge the Confederate States? This you will
have to do ultimately. Why not advocate it?
What has become of the men who said Republi-
can Government could not be maintained by force?
1t is force that caused the border States to secede
Had not force been used when it asserted that
Fort Sumter was to be evacuated, the State of Vir-
ginia would not have left. The doctrine of coer-
cion has been condemned by every Southern State,
by conservative men well as secessionsts and
every application of force wdens the breach. A
call for rs 600 men produced a spontaneous rising
i of twice that number South, and so it will go on.
Let me also correct one error prevailing North
which is, that Northern men treated badly who
reside here. 1t Is not true. ANY man that can
| n
gtimate business, is not spy, or an nsurrec-
zionist, there is no place in the world safer than
here. Time and opportunity will be given to satisfy
the public. Northern residents who wish to 60,
can leave without the least difficulty.
As to the blockade, | candidly believe that the
South are now the gamers, thousands and thou
sands of dollars every day. All luxuries are DIS
pensed with, and the times actually improving
Every foot Of ground will be cultivated In gram,
good prices paid, and should the season prove as
proptious as it promises, a larger amount Will be
raised than ever before. Y ou would be surprised
and astepshed at the readiness and alacrity with
} which men of all classes rally to arms. The best
population of the country are first on the list,
young and active.
Old men, Judges Ministers of the Gospel, men of
wealth. men who have always been Union men up
to the last, all in parting with their sons, tell them,
if you cannot repe the enemy, telegraph US and we
will be with you; and if men were In earnest,
they are. They will give the last dollar, and the
last drop of blood to this cause. They believe
their homes their wives and daughters threat
ened and they will die on the tented field, in the
3 ditch, anywhere, before they will be subdued.-N
Y Journal Of Commerce.
: New TARIFF CiRoULAR.-The Treasury Depart
ment has just issued circular explanatory of the
act of March, 1851 relative to appraisement of i'm
ported merchandise, and of the act of March last
3 Two periods of time therein indicated as date
. at which values are to be ascertaned. 1t is tht
4 opinion OF the Department that the former of these
. periods named-the date of actual shipment-ap
/, plies to merchandise exported from shippir por
OF the country of expectation, and that the latter
named-the date of exportation-applies to mer
chandise exported from interior country having
d no shipping port. The regulations heretofore es
tablished are, therefore, modified accordingly