The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-08

One of the methods, by which the advocates of
the war upon the South propose to silence opposi-
ton to the sanguinary policy they have Inaugural
ted, is by crushing out the right of private iudg-
ment. Every member of Congress who attempted
to denounce the usurpation of authority, or to
offer plea in favor of more humane measures
than the madness of sectional fanaticism is willing
to tolerate, was stigmatised as in alliance with
traitors and rebels all suggestions and resolu-
tons looking to a compromise being, in the Ian
guage of Mr.. OWEN, of New York, "either cow
'ardly or reasonable" 1t matters not that he
was rebuked and subsequently apologized for the
offensive resolution the fact still remains that he
had the audacity TO offer it, and that other men,
bers Of the same body have given unchallenged
utterance to similar sentiments. But this insoent
and domineering spirit is not confined to the halls
of Congress. Those journalists who support the
measures of the Administration, and wink at every
fresh atrocity which it commits, have also
taken up the cry. Every man, in their
estimation is, at heart rebel, who has the bold
ness and the honesty to protest against the wicked
acts of the Federal Legislature, the violation of
his official oath by Mr.. LINCOLN Men are to be
taxed, to the point Of exhaustion, to support
war which they regard as unholy and fratricidal,
and their lips are to be sealed by a denunciation
They are TO be stripped of every right which
freeman holds to be sacred and inalienable, but
it is reasonable in them to call in question the
gross abuse of authority by which they have been
wronged. However revolving to their intellect
and their consciences, the conduct of the war and
the object which Northern fanatcism and North
tto.,,
doubt upon the propriey of either is to be charged
to a want Of patriotism He only is held 10 be
faithful TO the Constitution and the laws who eu-
logises the violation of both; whilst he who is
seadfst in his reverence for the former and in his
obedience TO the latter, lays himself open
to the imputation Of being disunion-
ist. When the Republicans, at the early part
of the extra session just closed, resolved not to
allow any resolution to be introduced which might
tend TO promote reconciliation between the sec
tons, it was they who voted for disunion The
whole spirit and intent of the laws which they
have since passed, have the same purport and
tend to the same result. They have determined to
prosecute the war, not for the purpose of bringing
back the States into the Union as co-equal mem
bers of the Confederacy-for they well know that
no such object is contemplated even if it were
possble-but to assert the superiority of the dom
lnant section and to make the North forever here
after the controlling power. We are convinced
that these aspirations will never be fulfilled; but
we are equally convinced that when Mr.. LovEJoY
declared that the North "would put down rebel
Zion, either through the Government or over
ut" he did but reflect the sentiments of that
wing of the Republican party of which he is
member, whilst he lorewarned the Administration
OF the consequences that would ensue if the pro-
gramme of the Abotionists were not carried out
They, then, are the true disunonists; and if the
terms ''rebel' and ORATOR are to be applied at
all, they should be launched at them, and not at
those who oppose Them The people, we trust, are
already beginning TO understand this They will
it still more clearly before long