The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-27

an. NALLANDlGHAM IN ENGLAND
At such time the voice of counsel NAV as we'll
De hushed, for it will never be listened fo Tbo
c'iticlSms OF party may as well be abstained from
-, -, 'uey VIII seem mere inopportune carping Yet
~ 10 hoS Wlthout interest to study the conduct of
lSoIated individuals stubborn mnorjtips Mt such
crises as these. The English whgs who SUMMARIZED
the French Republic with all its errors and crmcs
against the unanimous and angry voice of Kjnn
mobility aad people, and who could not be moved
90 90 enthusiasm even by the victories of Nelson and
Wellington, were certainly often absurd and snIo
hetc enough, but posterity has recognized thar
vein OF truth ran through their criticisms So at
the present time, though the cause of peace and
amlcabe separation is advocated at Washington nv
onlV TWO or three politicians, and has little chance
OF making way with either House. vet tho snaeches
"hlch are addressed to hostile audiences or empty
pehches ny the few that take the unpopular side are
worth reading, if it be only that we NAV learn what
arguments suggest themselves to the politicians
VINO are traditi0naly opposed to President Lin
com party. The most remarkable of these was
certainty one made by Mr. Vallandigham, of Ohio
ABOUT amonth ago. 1t was philippic AGAINST the
executive usurpaton" effected BY President Lin
coin, anc with much Of that tumid and rrotesoue
eloquence winch distinguishes the Western orators
IL exposes the violations of the Constitution of
which the Presidents opponents saw he has baan
guilty. The chel interest of this production is that
1t indicates what will be the form that the nonnar
cenSure vii take should the Republican Cabinet
which has begun the war, not succeed in hrinpino,
IL l" prosperous conclusion. Should President
DAVIS and General Beauregard hold their nosition
should the people of the South continua to resist
ootn arms and entreates, should cotton be as pow
eriul rs Ece-President Stephens believes. and
force the world to interfere for the salvation of
those that produce it, we may expect storm of
popular rage to be directed against the statesmen
who will then be pointed out as the authors of ali
this evil. The Cdrthdginian sDtri ,cLich conde,n.
me unsuccessful general Is dlreddy J.IinYy doni,out
among me Northern people, and shou1T pre,,Jo,t
L"'Gon not 0Iy mP""ty by success, there trU be- no
4o"bt hHnd1eds to charge him ,oih yiolaions of The
TAR rhtch passed uithOut q plUrulur ot Tho IT, a.,
Ieere committed. Technically it seems to No tboJ2
MIR. Sailandigham is in the right when he declares
tnat the President did in April what he had no
right to do except with the consent of Conuress
The President, it is said, has not bv the ConsStit
ton, authority to employ military force as Mr.
Lincoln employed it prior to the meetino Of Con
gress on the 4th OF July. But this high crime and
msdemeanor, though the speaker returns ia il more
than once is not the first or indeed the chief fat
alleged against him. The Democratic party nv
the mouth OF Its moro extreme orators wishes TO
make 1t appear that the Republicans have for their
own party purposes, plunged the Union in-war and
~ maze return OF the seeded States impossible
Ihough knowing, argues the speaker that s'this
revolution began forty years ago in the vehement
persistent, offensive and unprovoked agitation of
the slavery question In the North and West" he
YET, on the 4th OF March last, declared that the
platform ot the Republican party the author of
TINS agitation, was "a law unto him" bv which he
meant to be governed in his administration. What
were his sentiments towards the South NAV be
gathered from the fact that che himself and his
a, iihe minister, the Secretary of State declared
three years ago. and have maintained ever since
.hat there was an 'irrepressbe conflict betweer
Tue TWO sections OF this Union; that the Union
could not endure part slave and part free and that
the whole power and influence of the Federal ,,ov
ernment must hencetorth be exerted to circn ~
scribe and hem in slavery within its existing limits,
This charge is, in fact that President Lincoln and
hs party, after having irritated if not injured The
Nouth Tor years, and proclaimed their belief that
che TWO couid not dwell together under the same
federation, had fulfilled their own prophecy by
pIunging the Union into war for the purpose of
subgerting the institutions of the South, or limit
ing its rights over the common territories