The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-20
BALTIMORE.
SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1861.

The Congressional report of THURSDAYS pro-
ceedings presented to our readers yesterday two
expressions Of feeling and opinion from Mary
land-the one embodied in the manly and elo-
quent speech of the Hon. HENRY NAY, of this city;
the other in the reply of Ex-Governor THOMAS,
representing the western district of the State. The
remarks of Mr.. MAY were received with impa-
thence, interruption and " derisve laughter
those of Mr., Thomas with rounds of applause.
The statement of such facts, in ordinary times.
would imply, that Mr.. MAY had been guilty
Of some violation of the rules of order or
propricty, or had startled the House with senti-
ments unworthy to be heard there and that MIR
THOMAS, on the contrary, had done honor to him
self his constituents and the presence in which he
spoke. Unhappiy, however, we are not living in
ordinary times. The world is upside down with
us. Humanity, civilization and the great princ-
= pies of private right and public freedom are now
sheer treason and rebellion, aud the bravest and
most glorious patriot is he, who can back the
most atrOciOus acts of despotism by the most
wholesale abnegation of his brthright rs a free
man, and the most brutal declarations of savage
vndictiveness. When, therefore, Mr.. MAY was
called most Justify to order, it was when he de-
clared, with the spirit which became him, as a
man and a representative of the people, that - he
"would not accept the freedom Of speech with
any limitation" When Mr.. THOMAS was APP
plauded most vociterously, it was when he pro-
claimed his sympathy and insulted the people OF
Maryland by declaring that they sympathized,
with all the measures of oppression which have
subverted the laws and liberties of this State
What better test could be furnished of the
character and spirit of the body which now
dishonors the Legislative Halls of our
unhappy country q? What better evidence
could be given of the link in lawlessness and DIES.
peration, between the many-headed despotism at
one end Of the Avenue and the more concentrated
usurpation at the other? What sadder proof could
be needed Of the madness which has seized upon
the rulers with whom God has cursed us, and the
wickedness and disgraces of their domination?
Upon such Developments it is worse than idle to
comment. They speak for themselves in a tone
which the deaest of adders might hear. and thc
mind and the heart TO which they do not appeal
are lost to appeals of all sorts All honor, then,
to the men who are not afraid TO stand up for thu
rlght, AMID the dlscouragements and the excite
ments oil such an hour The time will come-wt
peHe'e IL 10 De last coming, but or later i
VIII be here-when the returning reason of tn,
country will shrink aghast from the terrible mi
quites of the orgasm which is upon u.s. Men will
ask whether such things really were-whether tho
annals OF these days are not frightful drunken
dream. The names of the demagogues, who have
sprung to power upon the ruins of the republi,
and its free Institutions will be turned from Will
loathing, as men turn from the red lists of tbt
demons who worshipped the euotine Posterity
will wonder whether truth itself can he true when
1t records the scenes which transpired in the Con-
gress of l8Gl-the sentiments of which men boast
ed and the ruflian language in which they couched
Them For such a season of regenerated Justice
and patriotism the true men who are in Solor
ana Gomorrah can atf)rd TO wait We reioic,
mat the name OF representative from oppressed
ana down-trodden Baltimore will then be reaf
with the names of the BuRNErrs and the VAL
LANDTGHAMs- We are glad to chronicle the free
bold utterance of one Senator rom Maryland, al
ready, in the same good cause. We wait with anx
lety and hope for the voice of his colleague like
wise. He is too just and wise "a man not to fee
and think Alright. He is too brave a man, we ar
sure, TO shrink from speaking what he thinks.