The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-15

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burden of taxation for US to bear, and we maintain
is adverse to revenue, unjust in principle and OPP
! pressive in practice. Whether this is brought
about by partial remission of duties partial
imposition, it is still the in effect We enter
our protest against the scheme and policy both as
regards ourselves aud in the results so far as for
eign nations are concerned and their friendship, at
this time, valuable to In each respect free
trade is the true policy Of the Confederate States.
We deem it also unfortunate and NAL apropos
that the stigma of iegitmacy and illegality
should be placed upon the institution of slavery by
| fundamental law against the slave trade. In our
opinion it is matter of policy, and not of princi
| pie, to be decided now and hereafter, from sound
views of the necessities and safety of peoples.
| We think it proper subject of legislation. We
are willing to prohibit it by legal enactment, like
any other topic of legislation. But while England
imports her thousands of Coolie slaves and France
! hers, under the farcical appeaton of "apprenti-
ces"-while they are striving by these means to
| compete with us and supersede US, in producing
! the tropical productions of slave labor-while we
have within our reach large scope of fertile ter
| ritory uncultivated in Texas, and may have ere
| long the silver mines eff Arizona, and the teemng
States of Mexico, to populate and reduce to agri.
cultural productiveness-it seems to US shortsight
| ed, weak and sentimental to preclude forever, BY
| fundamental enactment, the adoption of policy
| that may become essential to our appropriate
growth and expansion, and to our successful COM
petition with the hypocritical notions of Europe.
But the Constitution adopted, is only provi-
sional and temporary, and may, therefore, be
| cusable on that account. We hope the Permanent
Government will be made and established speedily,
and without reference to anything going on out
| side of the Confederate States. These have COM
pete success within their grasp if they will only
act fearlessly and with the confidence of men who
are competent to control their destnes Too
great Difference and delay for the Border States
still in the Union, will only encourage their dilato-
riness and prolong their stay Let the Confederate
States but perform their duty, and their whole
duty to themselves irrespective of the Others and
we will answer for the result in a final Confederacy
| of all the Slave States.
SOUTHERN VIEWS OF SECESSION.
Extract from letter of Postmaster of the
| State of Georgia to the Post Office Department,
| dated February s, 1861:
| 81 belong to that party in Georgia who know
but little tif any difference between Southern Sc
| cesson and Northern fanatcism. | look upon tn e
precpitancy of the seeding States as wild in the
extreme. Already distress and ruin press upon
us; dark veil hangs between US and the future,
and nothing but the interpostion of Him who
holds the destnes of nations in His hands can save
US from ruin
Similar letters received from other Postmas
ters in Georgia and other seeding States
To the Editors:
l mourn over the condition of my county,
How would my heart rejoice to see her once more
united, and striving to promote the good of the
whole, and consequently of each State and ndivid-
ual. | hope the Border States will be united and
firm, and if so, perhaps after due time has been
turn. May kind Providence hasten the day.
National hateHigencer.
THE DOCTRINE OF CoERCIoN-A LION AT THE DOOR OF
SETTLEMENT.
The imperfect information which reaches the
press as to the proceedings of the Peace Conference
is yet sufficient to disclose the fact this morning,
that an impediment which has all along lain at the
threshold of their patriotic undertaking, without,
however, attracting much of the public thought is
now at least partially realized.
H. c,oE
withdrawal of the seeding States be recognized as
complete, it will be morally impossible to amend
the Constitution as required by any of the plans of
adjustment If all the States are to be regarded as
still in the Union, it will require the concurrence
OF twenty-six States to amend the Constitution
that being three-fourths of the whole number.
Considering Texas seeded, the number of States
now remaining is twenty only one to spare.
The withdrawal of Arkansas would reduce it to
twenty -six-none to spare.
Such unanimity of concurrence is not to be ex.
pected. 1t s idle to hope that Vermont and Massa-
chusetts and Ohio and Wisconsin and Kansas and
other States that might be named, will all concur
in anything that would satisfy Virginia. or satisfy
anybody but Stokes OF Tennessee, who does not de-
mand any ything. With Arkansas in the Union any
two of these States could defeat an amendment.
With Arkansas out, any one could do it. Still an
other State out, amendment wou Id be abolutely
impossible.
There is element of the difficulty which lies
even in advance Of the above stated. Constitu-
tOudl must De proposed DIV tWO-t1lrQS
OF both Houses of Congress, by convention
called by twothirds of the States through their le-
gisatures. The latter plan is too slow to be talked
about now. Can two-thirds of both Houses be OBJ
tanned to any plan of adjustment? This is difficult
at best; but refusal to acknowledge the Sout hern
secession increases the difficulty. According to
the n0n-Secession theory, the Senate contains GS
members TwO-thirds would require 46 votes. The
real number of Senators is but Sc (including
Texas.) Eleven Senators could therefore defeat
anything. The number of Representatives is 23S.
Two-thirds would require l59 votes. The real
number of members Gnclqding Texas) is POI.
Forty-nine members could therefore defeat any
thing g.-Aiero"drio { Va.) Sentinel
SOUTH CAROLINA DETERMINED TO TAKE FORT SUMTER ON
OWN HOOK.
The Charleston Courier of Tuesday last, while
expressing its great qualification in the full estab-
lishment by the Montgomery Convention of strong
and vigorous government, calls attention to that
article of the Confederation which reserves to Con
gress the power to declare war, and urges an i'm
mediate attack upon Fort Sumter without reference
to the action or policy of the new Government. 1t
says:
South Carolina being fully prepared, and her
citizens being eager to make good the demand for
the surrender of Fort Sumter, Congress will, we
trust, see the necessity of prompt action with re-
gard to the possession of that important fortfca-
tOn. Our troops are ready to in solid phalanx
when the word march shall be given. The position
that South Carolina has taken renders it necessary
that immediate measures be adopted for the secure
possession, by her citizens of all the Notifications
in her limits.
MANUFACTURED NEWS FROM THE SOUTH
The Charleston papers republish for the amuse-
ment o. their readers the accounts of outrages
against foreign Or native Union loving residents,
which from time to time appear in the Northern
| presses, and gives spice to their from the
South. The latest of these alleged outrages-the
hanging of the New Jersey carpenters near Char
lesion, for applauding Major Andersons course,
and the expulsion of certain poor white families
from the same State-items of intelligence appear
ing originally in the New York Times are pro-
| nounced too absurd for serious denial. cores
pohdent of the Courier shrewdly says that the re-
| cent cold weather has transformed into "exiles
! from the South many worthless vagabonds, male
| and female, too idle or dissipated to make their
| own living" The statements of Captain J. c."
to the New Iork Herald, in relation to the fortifi.
| cation at Charleston, and the comparative ease
| with which reinforcements could be thrown into
Sumter, is pronounced to be wholly untrue, and the
| Captain himself humbug.
| THE SPANISH CONSULATE AT CHARLESTON
| The Charleston Mercury repels an inference that
| the Spanish Consul appointed to that port few
days ago by MIR. Buchanan has been recognized
| and adds that Mr. Buchanan has now no more right
| to recognize foreign Consul for port of the
| Southern Confederacy than he would have to do
the same thing for the Feeee Islands.
ANOTHER LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF TIE
TREASURY.
| The Secretary of the Treasury has sent another
! letter TO Mr. Sherman, chairman of the Committee
! of Ways and Means, of which the following is a
copy.
| TREASURY DEPARTMENT, /
February 10, 1861.
SIR: 1t is indispensable that | should give, to-
day, notice of loan of eight millions of dollars, in
order that the Government may be in funds to meet
indispensable payments on the lst prox.
The obstacles unexpectedly thrown in the way OF
the passage of the bill reported by your committee
yesterday, authorizing the acceptance of the guar
antee preferred by several of the States compel me
reluctantly to ask for the loan the usual TERMS
for, in the present distracted state of the country,
should it continue, fear there must be loss oil
| eight hundred thousand dollars. Under all the
! circumstances, however, instead of calling for two
millions, | suggested in my letter to you of the
llth inst, have thought it advisable to ask for
eight millions, reserving the right of declining to
accept bids which NAV be disadvantageous to the
United States, and taking the chance of a favora-
Bile change in the political condition of the country
within the next ten days, at the end of which the
proposals for the loan will be received. Allow me
| TO remind you that the loan bill, under which ask
Tor proposals, was not presented for the approval
| of the President until the Sth inst. and that on
the 9th Saturday there was not quorum OF
your committee to act the bill reported yester-
day, accepting the guarantee of the States. | ad-
vert to these circumstances to exonerate myself in
the judgment OF those who have an interest in the
discharge ofthe liabilities pressing upon the Trea-
sury from any want of diligence upon my part.
! Your committee, | believe, all understand that
more than five millions of treasury notes have
| been redeemed out of the current revenues; that
about two millions fall due before the fourth
of March, less the amount paid in for public dues
making nearly the eight millions now required to
meet the public wants before that day-that more
than one-third of the revenue derived from the
customs is paid in treasury notes, due at future
dav and that the present embarrassed state of the