The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-11

From the ". Y. Times
lhe intelligence brought by the Bremen that the
Bonaparte Patterson case has been decided, in the
Tribunal OF First Instance adversely to the claim
OF the American family, will elicit much regretful
sympathy in this country. There has been every
thing to admire in the proud patience with which
the repudiated vie of Jerome Bonaparte- beauti-
full, cultivated vivaciOus and eccentrc-has waited
Tor her rights, and in her extreme old age crossed
the ocean in pursuit OF them; and there are thou
sands in Maryland to whose minds her tenacious
and somewhat arrogant devotion to her one fine
idea-the recognition by France of the legitimacy
of her son and her own elevation to exalted rank
has long been matters ofinterest. Therefore it is
sad to see her very reasonable ambition thus sum-
marily dismissed by the judgment of "Family
Council" speaking for despotic and brilliant power
against feeble obscurity, and for the most absolute
Of men against one of the humblest of women.
But we presume the end is not yet; the Court
which has just uttered its decision is not of last re-
sort, and no doubt the matter will be pressed to
the final tribunal unless, as is evidently probable,
notable compromise shall be effected by the in
tervenon Of the Emperor, who, from the first, has
evinced much liberal and friendly feeling toward
his American cousins.
From the ". 7. POStl
The efforts of the American Bonapartes to
cure from the French government recognition of
their legitimacy have resulted as might have been
expected, ia utter failure. The decision of the
French courts declares to the world that the de-
scendants of the ex-King of Westphalia and his
first wife are illegtimate. The venerable widow of
jerome BOnaparte mas visited IarlS and instituted
legal proceedings against the most powerful reign
ing family of Europe in vain. Might has again as
sumed the prerogatiyes of right.
OF course this decision, which was purely one of
expediency, will in no way affect the opinion ofthe
Anne rican people in regard to the case. Both FAM
lies of the princely bigamt could not be recogniz
ed. If the decision had been awarded in favor of
the American branch, then the Princess Mathilde
and the Prince Napoleon, the sOn-in-law of the
King of United Italy, would have been iegiti-
mate; and when consider the immense
influence of the French Bonapartes, compared
to that of the American, the result appears
but natural. 1t NAV be added that the personal
feelings of the French children of Jerome, were
quite strongly enlisted in the case as the Balt-
more Bonapartes, and they have undoubtedly con-
scientiouSly considered themselves fully entitled
to a recognized legitimacy their American bro
Their. The nperor had power to settle the mat
ter, and some writers blame him for not displaying
an unparalleled magnanimity in acknowledging the
rights of the Pattersons; but what would have
been magnanimous to them would have been cruel
to Mathilde, and Plon-PlOn, for whom he probably
had some personal regard The whole affair is an
instance of irretrievabe wrong, no worse than fire.
quentiy occurs in more humble walks of life, but
rendered peculiarly noticeable by the prominence
OF the actors and history will record this decision
of the French courts as the unavoidable sealing of
gigantic wrong, which diplomatic and state rea-
sons may paate, but cannot excuse
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ORGAN-Would to God
the enemies of the Union were confined to the
slaVen0ung States! w nile, IN the south, peStl-
lent crew of disunionists, with the Charleston Her.
curry for their head organ, have been steadily aim
ing, for the last ten years. at the dissolution of
the conederacy, equally pestilent tribe of abo-
tionsts in the North, led by the Tribune, have
striven, with like persistence, for the same end
The tactics have frequently been changed to suit
| the shifting humors Of the public mind, but the
| purpose has never faltered, from the Tribune s
| memorable pseudo-demonstration, many years ago,
| that the continuance of the Union entails an an
| nual loss of $1,000 on every inhabitant of the
| North, down to its recent advocacy of policy
| which would drive tie border States into seces-
sion, and kndle the flames ofcivil war. We doubt
whether the Mercury, seven years ago, had more
unequivocaly expressed its dislike and contempt for
the Union than the Tribune did in the early part OF
| 1854. The following declaration was made in that
year, by the latter, after it had devoted long
| series of elaborate articles to showing that the
| Union costs the North hundred times-precisely
neither more nor less than hundred times-as
much it is worth: awe say most distinctly
these the Tribune's words-"that we should
"prefer to belong to peace.lovng, acknowledging,
''labOr honOring, God-fearng confederacy of TWEEN
"ty millions Of freemen, rather than to fbuster-
cling, war-making, conquest-seeking, slavery ex-
'ttending Union of thirty millions, one-sixth OF
'them slaves" Was the Union ever painted in
colors more black and odious by the chief disunon
organ of the South? Was ever anything less in
the spirit of ''the fathers" whose name the Tri.
bune often takes in vain ?-Ne,o York World
(RepubIican.)