The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-16

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BIRD of this feather is President LincoIn H;,
method OF dealing with great evil is NOT RI sat
nv ana TO oeny Its existence. The Union is intact
ae oh1n Is unbroken, because it is theoretically
ttnuissoluole. NO State can have seeded from II
because no State has the right to secede and Gov
sequenty the U Mon exists and m ust forever avis,
In all Its integrity. There is no Southern ConfaSa
ray, IL is mere name, ttular pretension. no re-
ANY. we are seven," persists the child i;
Wordsworth's poem, the death of two of tba 49,,
oer not disturbing the idea fixed in the affections
Inc little Maid would have her will
ana SAID, Nay, we seven"
we are thlrty-tour, in like manner fondlv ner-
sists the American President And in every ros
pect put one he intends to act as if the Sontbarn
oonlederacy was sham and the Union reaIitv
instead OF the reverse, which is the notorious fac
nat can De expected, what can be hoped of a
noicy passed on an enormous and notorious fction9
The Pope declares the encroaobments on b;S +oll
Poraitles null and void, and that his authoritv
mains sacred and intact; but these are mere word,
tnrown INTO the air, as they say in the East the
naa n p. consultations of impotence The Amer
resldents assertions of the infallibilitv of the
constitution are more serious, as they entail conse
quences IN action. Accordingly the President
pledges himself to hold, occupy, and possess tbs
properly and places belonging to The Federal Gov.
ernment, TO collect the duties and imposts but nor
10 use force, except such as NAV be NECESSARY e.
tnese objects, for which, he says no bloodshed w
violence is needed. More cunning than SbvIooI
III r L'ncon contemplates some mode of cutting the
ha SnY
without splitting drop of blood. Does he srnnosa
et orr sumter can be retained or the other forte
lowered, that the Federal property can ba raD
States customs duties collected in the Gulf
;JeS' WITHOUT coming to blows? He does mot
49, u propose to insist all the Federal oblino
s ne VIII not attempt to enforce the discb
Offices nd outies where people refuse to fiji the
oiiTes, anu as little, when it comes to the noit
VIII he attempt to re-occupy forts recoyer point
~, ana levy customs. For such comparatiysIy
o;,;I o9Iects, what people would consent to
ti war! Inc preservation of the Union, if prac.
tlcaole, might be deemed worth a civil RI ~ az
President Lincoln starts with the assumrt;o' u.
s.o ohlon Is undissolved, and consequently his
civil war would appear to be not for the greo, oh
Jece OF saving the Union ITSELF but for the recoye
ry of its poor furniture-Loudon - : We
March %. "'''e' "
NOBODY hILLED AT CHARLEsroN.-A great deal
OF surprise is manifested in all quarters at the foot
tnat no one was killed either side DURING tbrtv
hours commandment of Fort Sumter and the sur
prise is all the greater because it is alleged b at the
nrng from all the batteries was excellent from the
PPgHning 10 the end of the conflict The guns on
OFT sumter were splendidly fought by Auderson's
Hens ana yet 1t does not appear that apy of the
Oonleuerate troops were killed, and only few
f %er h. wounded. But this can only be accounted
iol ny Tue superior skill and science with which The
batteries were constructed by the accomnIished Of
Ulcers OF engineers who erected them. The defen-
ces at Fort Moultrie, Cummings Point. Morr;
lsiana, ana the Iron Battery, were constructed.
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be killed at their guns, and it appears that thew
accomplished this purpose. The experience ac
CURED in modern warfare, especially in the Crimea.
has rendered the effective working of batteries
safe, by the substitution of
earthworks, sand bags, and iron for the
stone stockade and other defences formerly
adopted. 1t is therefore to science that we must
attripute the bloodless character of this terrific
Dompar dment, and not to want of skill in the use |
OF tne guns. The impregnabilitY of the defences
round Charleston harbor only shows what protec. |
ton such class of batteries could afford in case of
an invasion by foreign power, that, if no other
good has come of the assault on Fort Sumter it |
mas at least given us practical lesson in the eff
cheney OF coast defences.
The fact that no life was lost in the thirty bonrs,
neavy firing at Charleston, however. need hardly |
Excite mucn astonshment when we remember the |
results ct the battle of New Orleans, when. not
WINS andlng the terrible slaughter OF the British
troops, who were exposed to the fire of .Iackson,s
men, ensconced behind their cotton hale defsnossS
! slaughter 10 which the English General PACKING.
lam was included-only seven men were killed On
be American side, although they were opposed by
killed troops who had learned experience In The
vars against Napoeon.-N Y. Herald.
LIEUTENANT REED WERuEa. A des,atcb pub-
shed in the papers of yesterday relative to the
rrest OF Federal officer at the South seems to
ave been error as to the name of the party, as
ne following, from the New York Herald of yes
'rday, will show:
LIEUT.. REED wERDEN NOT PRISONER OF WAR.
o the Editor of the Herald
have to request you to correct statement
nieh appeared in your paper of this morning, re-
oeaung from Montgomery that l bad been taken
eva, rom Pensacola as prisoner of war. have
he .. peen at Pensacola, and am now attached to
law van irigate Minnesota, at the Charlestown
ant. massachusetts,. Your obedient ser. I
~' EVENING. April "A. REED wxRpzs.