The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-20
BALTIMORE.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1861.
The following wretched subterfuge appears in
ihe New York Times of yesterday:

The following Wretcned SuDlefluge appears III
The New York Times of yesterday:
.,Tur BooT on THE OTHER LEa.-The Baltimore seces
sion ournalsthe Exchange of course, ut their head
are overwhelmed with grief and astonhment at the rig
rou confinement Of their Police Commissioners in this
civ The prisoners themselves write long letters of
comran bewaiIing their inability to visit the city or to
receive their fendsn representing the Nauona 10y
eminent the embodiment of tyranny and cruelty Inc
Er5aDGs the danger to civil liberty ana
constitutional freedom when such things can take pace
Pray do these journals think OF the imprisonment
Of III Ety. Of Mr. Harris, of Mr., Mctraw and others IN
the tobacco warehouses Of Richmond Not one OF these
men IS even suspected much less accused of any crime
They put prison simply because they fell into the
power of the rebels They kept there without pre-
fence of any other authority than that of fOrcewithout
promise oany trial hint of any accusation-but simply
because they are believed to dsapprove OF he renech
Does EGchCHge danger to civil liberty IN such
proceedings these Or does the attempt OF those by
whom they are perpetratcd to destroy an beTy over
throw the Constitution and every guarantee for freedom
which it provides and to bring the whole country into
complete suhugauon to the most relentless ana lhoer
ant despotsm the world has seen, sancuy these
things and give them favor and support at its hands
No one knows better than the writer Of the fore
going article and the editors of the journal in whose
columns it betingly appears, that there is no paral-
lei whatever between the cases stated, and that the
attempt to set one mp is but part OF the miserable
system of misrepresentation and fllsehood in which
the defenders of the Administration find their only
resource and refuge. How came Messrs McGRAw
and HARRIS at Richmond? Did they not volun-
tarily enter, without flag Of truce or safe-conduc
Of any sort into the lines Of q hostile army, lmme-
diately after q bloody battle, and perhaps on the
eve of another? BY all the laws Of war, and upon
every principle of common prudence and seli-pro-
lection, the General into whose camp they pene-
tfated had a right and was bound to deiain them.
He would have been idiot TO have done other
wise unless lie designed the secrets of his move
ments 10 be- the next day, in the portfolio of Gen
eral MCCLELLAN, and the day after in the columns
Of the TimcS-with an editorial tribute TO the
patriotism which keeps no faith with ORATORS"
What carried the Hon. Mr.. ELY to Manassa? He
went with band of Congressional amateur ruff
fans to gloat over the slaughter of "rebels, " and
Join in the chorus of victory which he supposed
was to be won, with no bloodshed but that of
Southern men, and in which, at all events, he pru-
dently provided that no blood of his own should
be ut risk. He went TO the way opened, by
cannon, bayonet and rifle, for the execution of
the bloody and vindictive laws which he had been
aiding to drive through Congress by speech and
vote. He was not a soldier. lie had no call to
the battlefield, and had no business there. He
went TO crafty malignant curiosity and an I'M
manly hate and vengeance at the expense Of the
lives Of better men than himself in his own ranks
and the ranks of the enemy 1t was lucky for
him that he encountered no btterer fate than
captivity. If his captors, had been as bad as
himself, he would probably have received what he
desired to see melted out to them.
What analogy is there between these cases, and
the case of the citizens of Maryland now anguish
ing at Fort La Fayette-no prisoners of war, no
victims Of the battlefield, no visitors of
camps--but peaceful citizens, outraged and
oppressed for opinions sake, without
form or prsteyt Of law, and sent from their
quiet homes into captivity only because there g
no accusation against them which is not too
contemplate to be submitted to a tribunal or
published to the world
But if there were parallel between rrre c,rscs-
where is the parallel between the modes of treat.
ment at Richmond and New York? The Times is
perfectly aware that the gentlemen at
Richmond, of whom it speaks--prisoners of
war as they are, and without any right
TO complain of the hardships of such i'm
prisOnment--have not written letter TO their
friends, or sent message which does not breathe
the waI-nest acknowledgment of the kindness with
paragraph has been published in the Northern pa
pers-all to the same effect; We gave, in our
issue Of yesterday, the disgraceful defence made in
The Express for Col. BURKE, on his authority
Here is what EDMUND Connolly, a Federal prison
er of war at Richmond, writes to his family at
home. Col BURKE and his superiors may read it
and blush. The Times, Of course, never bushes:
81 have not much of importance to communicate
10 you have opportunity of going out of this
Enlistment, and can learn but little inside. 1t is
that the authorities here Kind enough dO,y as TO
dy and read the papers, and also the prriege Of harinJ
Of our party 90 O to market erery morning BY this
means have iaty Of vegetables, de- every
ing We take turns this business gich is quite dgree
able 10 as dH although always accompanied by guard
When 20 home will be quite posted in domestic affairs
IN general. There dozen of us in our mess and
about four such messes in this room, which about
large as half the first floor of barrel shop and
uSt such building in appearance and well adapted to
ihe purpose for which it is used There several
such buildings here They originally built and used
as tobacco factories but since the set in they have
been closed until that they used temporary
prisons There in all about fortytwo officers of
on TINS hoo this the number that has been arrested
Jar from The last battle, and amongst them
doctors Ne are nolg quite comfortable here'