The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-18
BALTIMORE.
SATURDAY, MAY l8, 1861.

The substitution of General CADwALLADER for
General BUTLER as the officer in chief command
of the Northern troops now stationed in Mary
land, has been hailed with that sort of qualified
satisfaction which every community that is placed
under military supervision is apt to feel, when it
knows that the G neral in command has the in
stncts of a gentleman. But it would be wrong
to suppose that popular sentiment has undergone
any change whatever in relation to the nature of
the indignity which has been put upon this city
and State by quartering Northern troops in our
midst, that, when the time comes, it will fail 10
manifest itself in a way which cannot be msun-
derstood. We warn General CADwALLADER not TO
mistake the respect which is paid to bis repu-
taton for humanity, and to his fine social quail
tiles, for an acknowledgment that it was not the
armed occupation of Maryland which was op.
posed by her people, but the instruments
employed TO carry out the measure. He
could not fall into more grievous error. We
may admire the character Of the newly-apponted
jailer, and may believe that under his rule our
manacles will not be permitted to cut quite SO
deeply into the flesh as they might under the
orders of another; but we know, nevertheless that
we are free and that we shall never cease TO de-
mand to he reinstated in all those rights Of which
we have been SO tyrannically dispossessed, and to
which we are legally entitled; and we say TO
General CADwALLADER, and we say also to the
Administration under whose orders he is acting
that we will have them. In speaking thus firmly,
but resolutely, we deny that we are contumacious.
We are simply standing up in defence of the SOW
ereignty of the State, and of the privileges of the
people under the laws. AS private gentleman,
we entertain very high respect for General CAD
WALLAD2R; but as military officer, appointed to
carry out the measures of the Administration, he
has no more business to exercise authority over us
than had General BUTLER, nor does it matter one
jot whether his command consists of militia from
Massachusetts or militia from Pennsylvania. We
speak what we know, when we say that the preva-
lent feeling which their presence engenders among
Us IS one of deep, intense, suppressed indignation
The Northern journals designedIy deceive their
readers. They announced, when Buffers troops
encamped on Federal Hill, that they were exult-
ingly received. The Baltimore correspondent Of
the New York Tribune, with unparalleled mendac-
lty, asserts that they hailed as "deyerers:'
that our people "fraternzed with them;' and
that when the precious freight debarked, candles
clamps and torches famed from every door and
window, and on the pavements, and the wekir
''resounded with shouts of welcome" In what
excuses the Plug Ugly element of that section
may have INDUCED, under the impression that
''the Board Of Police and their obnoxious Mar
''shal' were Immediately to be displaced-fol
such was the current rumor-it is impossble Il
say; but that any order-loving, law-abiding an(
true-hearted Marylander cheered these Northern
ers, is as gross and bare-faced falsehood as wa
ever committed to paper. General CADwALLA
DER will soon find that the free men G
Maryland cannot be coerced into submission b
foreign bayonets They will never consen
to be dragOoned into joining Norther
Contederacy. Their love for the UNION as
was; their sincere reverence for the glorious ira
ditions by which it was once ennobled; thei
hopes of peaceful and honorable adjustment c
our national troubles, and that noble spirit Of con
servatism for which they have always been distin
guished-all these considerations have held then
passive. But within the past three months the
have witnessed a spectacle so imposing, so NC
mentous and so deeply involving the question O
their own future destiny as to demand that the,
should take counsel with each other in respec
to the position which it becomes Maryland tt
assume. Ten Southern States have solemnly Sep
arated themselves from the old UNION, and another
Is about TO follow. Those that have already pont
have established new Republic, and are pre-
pared to defend the independence they have as
ted hJrfn IF Al
so. In such n contest Maryland can be no unin
terested spectator. 1t is sectional question:
contest which is waged for the avowed purpose O
coercing the seeded States back into the UNION
and of asserting the political and commercial 81.
premacy of the North. Eighty years ago tire,
millions of Americans, with the most meanre re-
sources, and confident only in their native
aud the justice of their cause triumphantly defeC
the whole power of Great Britain. Can any san,
man believe that the Northern States can conquer
eight millions of Americans, well clad, well armed
WIN agricultural resources of the most valuabl,
character, and fighting, as their forefathers di,
OF old, for the "inaenable rights of life
liberty and the pursuit of happiness? But what
ever may be the result, Maryland has duties +,
fulfill which she would be recreaut TO her ow,
honor if she did not fulfill worthily. She has III
undo0o'ed right to elect, now that the UNION i
virtually dissolved, TO which of the two section
she will adhere; and she protests, and will con
tnue to protest, against the occupation of he
SOIL by Northern troops, for the purpose of pre-
venting free expression of the popular will an
OF chaining her to Northern Confederacy, whethe
her lncuatons point that way or not