The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-29
[GNS OF THE TIMES.
z hnti-,yar Feeling i'm Connecticut.


| Waa!ling back from Hyattstown upon Washing
ton}genteman Of this city, who happened to be
IN u neigaborh1od al the time observed an am.
huiae pass containing number of sick soldiers.
Fro that ambulance the letter in question was
droFd, and was subsequently, picked up by the
partEho has kindly sent it to US for publication.
1t Interesting, not only as coming from one who
Is eVenty in favor of prosecuting the war, but as
corrorating the statements in regard to the
chan of sentiment in Connecticut which have
beeniade through the columns of the newspapers.
--EE EXCHANGE
NEwINGToN, Conn, august %, 1861
DR. HI have been looking every day for a
lett from you; but none has come since your No.
3. sope are everyday asking "have you heard
fr0id especially Democrats. YCu cannot ina
ginahe advance that the Democratic party is
nakg in their opposition to the Government
TheIrow more and more bold in their denuncia.
tion the war, and under the guise of peace are
advatiDg the most damuable schemes of secession,
compmise or reconstruction. The leaders seem
not thaVe united upon any plan, whether of separ-
atnnr reconstruction, but they Join in the most
INSTRUMENTATION of the war, and using
al tir influence to hinder eulistments. | was
dOwto the postoilice last eve, and G.. said that
he Eoped that every who had gone down
SOD would get aogged out" and the sentiment
seeed to meet with no opposition among the by
staiers, except from me. | gave them piece oi
mynind. | told them that | thought &. was the
mQs pnest and franb of the whole lot, for he
avoFst the doctrine to which all their talk and
infun3e tended. Tom A. and J. S. X, the trash,
dc, were there, and thought Ii. j. would have
beenb peter suited if the trash had been a little
morhrudent, and had not in iured their respecta
bilitby such an open avowal of the secret hopes
and d8igns of the Democracy. If anybody breaches
secesOn to me, why, and he will get Hallelujah,
and pats all.
G hid that he hadIreceived no letter from you.
t0G,im that it must be that they, your bosses
detaling your letters so that information might
not kk out respecting military movements. Well
1ce dit know what you are up to, for we have
receied nothing in two weeks. What is the mat
ter 3-are you shot ?-got the dysentery ?-taken
you,elf The mail comes, but no letters from the
sea of war. | thought | would commence this
lett- and when | received one from you it shall
go ustanter. If the "hoffcers" won't let you
sendh htters just drop line telling so, ther
we Vi know the wherefore.
A Political Meeting in Maryland Threatened
by Soldiers.
On asst Saturday at a district primary meeting
in P ersville, held for the purpose of choosing
delegtes to the County Convention, in Frederick
on th 4th proximo, to nominate candidate for
Goyehor, a company of LincOln's soldiers, guided
by Ciion men, made their appearance with the
avowh object Of suppressing the meeting if it did
not ntet with the approval of tho officers, who,
wi:t arms in hands, watched personally over it.
THE MAINE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
The Minority Report.
The Democracy of Maine, through their dele
gates, met in State Convention at Augusta, on the
l4th itst., to the number of 565. Hon. John ".
Dams, of Fryburg. was nominated by ballot for
Governor. Two sets of resolutions were reported
which elicited considerable debate. The majority
report was made by John NJ. Adams, Esq, of Port
land editor of the Argus. The minority by Mr.
Brown, of Somerset. The Convention, by a vote
Of 2i0 yeas to 1S6 nays, substituted and adopted
the minority report, late in the evening. There
lp0a ga good number of delegates" as the Boston
.;aHrHdJ report declares, assembled in another ball
ard nominated Col. Charles D. Jameson, who has
been rendered the command of one of the Maine
regiments, for Governor. The number of delegates
who seeded from the regular Convention is not
given. The regular Convention also adopted re-
solution censuring the destruction of the Democrd
Office in Bangor, by an irresponsible mob, and call
ing upon the public authorities to put down suct
proceedings.
The minority of the Committee q to 81 report
ed as follows, through MIR. Brown, of Somerset:
Resolr d. That to the Union of these States into ont
cOnbderacy indebted for happiness and pros
perty at home, and for all that renders honored
respected as a nation among foreign powers; that this
Union consummated and the Constitution framed by
our fathers in the spirit of Cancellation and compromise
upon the basis Of justice and equality, and that upon
complete recognition of these fundamental principle
they rested their hopes of its perpetuty
kesOlred That regard the cultivation of sectiona
preuiceS and formation of sectional parties in drec
opposition to the wise counsels of the Father of his Coun
try, tending directly to the dsmemberment of this
to reuding aSunder aterna bondsto thu
of the foundations upon which our Govern
ment rested and the prime of the present dis
tracted state of our country.
ResoUed, That in judgment the disconented feel
ing which has arisen among oar brethren of the South
States caused by agitation of the slavery question
night have been quieed by conciliaion and comproms
equally honorable both sections, and that day o
retrbuton will overake the Republican leaders 70
their wise and unpatrOtiC in preferng TO carr
cut p@rty dogma 70 the preservation OF great an
tional ruin.
ResolUed That stand second to none in our love fo
the Union and we are ever ready to give it our mos
hearty support and stand committed to any measur
necessary to its preservation in its integrity and spirit
which it was formed.
against the embittered feeling and united strength
nearly half the States, is papab absurdty and
utter mpossihty, and if the revoted States shoul
be and suhjugatcd they be held to their al
glance only by changing our Government to an unlim
ed monarchy, and while pursuing this deluson of
ting States by coercion standing army has raise
without color law freedom of speech has been abridged
the right Of protection Of persons by hdbedS corpus, til
hight of safety in homes papers and effects, the right
petition for redress of grevanCesa these great const
tutonal rights which freedom rests being vii
lated, and unless an immediate check be placed upo
these usurpations remnant of our free Cover
ment will remain
RsSoYred That the only end to be attained by the c.
ercive policy of the Administration is the entire prost
ton all interests, a lasting separation, and
unconquerable bitterness of feeling between the derer
States enormous sacrifice of blood and treasure an
the complete subversion of our Government.
ReSoired, That in favor of a Convention of a
the StatcS to take into consideration for til
immediate amcabe settlement of existing difficulties,
MIR. Henry Hudson, of Guilferd, moved to adoI
the minority report.
Hon j. w. Bradbury spoke at length, an
earnestly, in favor of the majority report.
As before stated, the minority report was sui
stituted by a vote of 24O to 186.
From the Ne1c York Herald
The Expected Attack on the News OGic
and Other Journals.
1t has now been fully proven to the police that
mob intended dem0lshing the Nea0s office on Mon
dav night; that the fact became known to the pt
lice was the only means that prevented them frol
carving into effect their purposed plans. nun
ner of daring rutiians had been secretly employed
and between two and three o'clock the rioters wei
TO congregate in and about the NeIrS office, an
when the cry was given, to enter and demolis
everything in the composing, editorial and coun
ing rooms, also the presses. The Day Book otic
was next to be visited, and finally the Journal ,
Commerce. The fact, however, became known I
the editors Of the journal of Commerce, and the
Immediately notified the Superintendent of polio
and Captain Svey, of the First precinct. :,
strong force accordingly held in reserve, undt
Captain Carpenter, and the active movements
the police in the vicinity of the Ne,oS office full
satisfied those who were to carry out their design
that the police were well aware of their NOV
ments, and it would be useless to attempt it. II
spsctor Carpenter was in the vicinity of the Par
until all the papers had gone to press, and he ha
fully satisfied himself tha all was safe.
From the Courier des Etats U1ais.
What is Traitor.
One of the most dangerous characteristics
epochs of political cOnvulsion is the facility vii
which denunciatory appellations come to have
hold on the credulitv of the masses. The epith
traitor is the order of the day. traitor is VIII
ever does not chauut in tones of ferocious enthus
asm the hymn of civil war. Traitor, whoever
proves not blindly, as if it were the words of no
writ, all that is said and done at Washington.
Traitor, whoever undertakes to make the matte
measure the abyss towards which it marches al
the miseries it prepares for itself. Traitor, in
word, whoever, in public or private, daTes EXPIRE
an opinion different from the dominant opinion
the day. The liberty Of the press is treason-tre
son also the liberty Of speech.
From the Nety Fork Express.
What is n Rebel.
Whoever is against the Consultation OF the VI
ted States in whole and in part, in spirit in l.
ter is a rebel. Whoever is against any of the la
of the Government, whether they relate to fugiti
slaves or to freemen, is a rebel. Whoever iDsi
that law of Congress can be violated any more
New York or Massachusetts than in South Car
lima or Alabama, is a rebel. Let us make clei
clean work of our loyalty, and apply to it t
rigid rule that he who offends in one point often
in ALL
From the NelC York Times
Now for the Telegraph.
The latest New Orleans papers received in t
city contain telegraphic advces from New Yo
Baltimore end Washington, informing the Conf
crates of the English antipathy to an Americ
loan, and other news calculated to give "comi
to the enemy" Why not cut off the telegraph
well as the mails and expresses?
From the Boston Courier.
The Safeguards of the Press.
If our wise forefathers deemed it essential to
security of themselves and of future generatio
| that freedom of speech and of the press should
| guarded by solemn constitutional sanctions
| that even the representatives of the States anC
the people, in the exercise of their most deliber
| Judgment, should not have power to infringe u
| or to interfere with it-shall knot of passion
men, under the influence of popular exciteme
and perhaps without the exercise of any judgmt
make of themselves an extempore tribunal, alb