The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-04

"lluShHuiuS Tue great Impression OF business ana
the want of money existing among all classes, JUS
titles US in believing that the columns of the
EXCHANGE faithfully reflect the views of a large
majority of the people of Maryland
There is, as everybody is aware, rampant
political organization, called ''the Union Party
which is now canvassing for votes in MARYLAND.
Every one who does not throw up his cap for it is
called ''secessionist," at all events, and among
very ardent patriots, q ''traitor" Its motto is
1.-The Union, the Constitution, and the Enforce
'ment of the Laws" and its principle of action is
to "crush OUT opposition. When so comprehen
sive and indefinite a creed is set up with an Ath-
anasan clause of perdition TO all who refuse to
subscribe to it, there is no escaping the duty and
necessity of finding out what it really means
What then does ''the UNION party'' represent
and what manner of men are its disciples and
chief speakers? Whittier does it lead and how
does it propose to triumph? These are vital oues-
tons, and every citizen is bound to consider and
respond to them. To our min Is, there is no diff
Guilty whatever in their solution.
What is called the "UNON Party is, suhstap
TALLY, to our EYES, the corrupt and degraded fac
ton once known as the american Party" Ban
tized with honorable name and swaddled in
the 'Star Spangled Banner" it is still, what it
always was, neither more nor less It's utterances
and its organs are the same-its purposes and its
modes OF serving them have not altered par-
cIe 1t wants office and plumber, and its chances
OF getting these have given it some allies of kim
dred appeties. Sill, its characteristics have not
been changed. The Patriot and the CHDDer are
lis mouth-peces, of old. The american, as he
fore, is its viruous censor and practical coadintor
Gov HICKS is lis official representatve-Mr WIN
TER DAVIS, its statesman and orator. With a
few words altered, it sings the same song and is
after the same sixpence. Mr.. LINCOLN has the lat
ter to bestow, and therefore it supports Mr.. LIN
COLIN. The enforcement Of the laws" by Mr.
LINCOLN, suits it for the present, similar Cen
"forcement' by Mr.. SWAMI suited it in the past.
1t is loud, therefore, for the Administration to
be energetic now, as it was clamorous for
the farm" ofthe City Government to be ''strenetb-
''ened'' then. 1t has varied its tactics to be sure,
in some trifiing particulars, but that does not
amount to much. Mr.. DAVIS makes eloquent
speeches to Germans now, whose right to vote he
regarded as only secondary year or two ago,
ana 10 Knock whose heads off, at the polls was
the primary business Of his friends. Nine months
ago Mr. DAVIS regarded Democracy as the unpar-
donaole sin, and denounced ''fusion" with the
Democratic party as he would have cried out
against embracing leper. Now he thinks that
Democrats, like everybody else, should "forget
party" and vote for him and s'the UNION. -
lheSe little variations, however, are as we have
said, but trifes. They are the eccentricites of .
great mind, or the concessions of a prudent. prac-
uca and accommodating temper. They do not
vary the general fact that "the UNION party.n as
an organization, is substantially identical with
Inc Q"onddm American organzation-the same in
lis principles and ohjects-the same in its leaders
and for the most part, in its soldiers, rank and
hIe-just MS patriotic, just as honest lust as scru-
pulous, and not whit more so. We excent
many individual cases, of course We respect
sincere individual opinions, with equal sincerity.
we know many excellent citizens, seduced into
the pad company of which have spoken, by
their devotion to the UNION, and the delusion that
Its reconstruction is practicable. We speak of
the UNION party" as pary-and dealing with
II as such, we believe it to be- demonstrably what
we have said-nothing more nothing less The
question then comes up-how does it pronosa ar
comprising its purposes? 1t wants power. plum
der, office, success. How does it propose to oet
them? We answer-by supporting the Admins
ua'loh. what that involves, is really the great
paramount inquiry, upon the solution of which
depends the claim of 'the UNION Pary' of Mary
and TO the support of the honest and patriotic cit
liens of the State
Can any one doubt, now, what the policy IF
the Administration is? No sane man con oor
tany When Mr.. LINCOLN, on the 15tb Of nil
called out seventy-fve thousand men TO uenCorco |
t'0 laws ana suppress unlawful combina
'onS IN the States of the Southern Confederacv,
pi''n people took it for granted that he meant |
war. lhey could not well understand what he
wanted with seventy-fve thousand men. if be |
meant peace or how he could use his forces for !
any purpose in the States named unless he in
Vaueu Them. But the President positively denied
mat he had any such purposes He nrotes,od %
the Mayor of this city on April DIST that ho
wanted the troops for ''the defence of the con,or,
only-postively for nothing else On the GOD
of April, Mr.. SEWARD wrote to Governor HICKS,
in equally explicit language-"THe force uo,c
'sought to be brought through Maryland is intended
'J0r nothing but the defence Of this capitql" Regi
ments accordingly crowded on, uninterruptedIv.
by the score, and the capital was soon made safe
against all dangers, real or imagined. OF a |
sudden, on the Sd of May, without any new infer
'enlhS cause, another proclamation appeared.
calling out forty thousand men for the navy and
regular army, and over forty thousand moro 70
serve in the militia for three wears rrbo -,
NATION ITSELF announced the purpose of this enor-
niouS ieVy' II was no longer for defence, or for
the capital; it was 'for the observation of ,ho
al TTnin 1,,+
'surrectionary combinations existing Gin seve-
raj States" Not to leave the matter in
doubt, Mr. SEWARD put forth to the public on the
very day of its date, his letter to Mr.. DAYTON. of
May 4th, wherein he stripped his policy of all
pretences and DISCUSSES. He scoffed-scoffer that
he is-at all ideas of a peaceable and bloodess
settlement, and arrogantly declared-sThe time
:, wnen these questions had any pertinency or
-, p'""S'olllty has passed away. :. The
"'''sen's have instituted revolution, with omen
hagrant, deadly war. Tho Tnito5
o'a'es nave accepted this civil ,vor os IN ;,ou;.,
"ble necessity. "0' 10 an ineSita-
..eo-oo. 80 The land and naval
'o'eeS vi tne Union have been INIT ;....,..,
10 restore the Federal authorize ,I'o ACTIVITY.
'onlon from danger. You cannnt ~ '" save me
or 100 explicit in making known 70 ~, ue''ueu
government, that there is not noa,. oo. 'encn
6een, nor 'ciU there be, the least idea '"ere
this government Of suffering a dissolution ~ ~, %
" Union to take place, any acay achatecer. Her0
then, is war-war to the knife if ever war was
war never to end, until the federal authority shall
oe restored over the "rebels." And war to what
eA'en'' and of what character? Let the Tribune
OF May LIST answer:
10 "n,. 10 conquer them-not merely to defeat brt
most usArE them-and we shall do this the
~ rsbsU;a,,s tne more speedily we do R,1 49,
.s,,5 ~ .,uttUs are ouertpselmed in u, IA 80
sOo'e'eu Ve 'edces oefore ungr, ,,;, y."' az"
70 return 70 PEACEFUL and cone1ted - - must nor De
ma poeeTty al heir fresides, and .sn lhey must
anxious eyes Or mothers and the rags Of ggaon IN the
Here is the scheme and purpose of the Adm;. P
istration in its hideous nakedness-a war 80 In u
quest and subjugation-a war of rapne and r,,;a a
and desoation, "to restore the federal author;t,
land to save the Union from danger p To support '
the Administration is, therefore, to lend it help
ing hand in all this. 1t is to aid in overwhelm-
ing ana scattering the rebeious traitors" from