The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-16
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

!" "e have been furnished VITA a copy of the fol-
lowing letter from gentleman in the North to his
brother in this city. 1t indicates that some Of the
Northern people at least beginning to consider
the end towards which they are drifting:
l have been North long enough to understand
something OF tie political views of the peopIp
There seems to be two parties One, com prising
the larger mass of the ponpe-the merchants
manufacturers ard men Of property, the sober,
sensible, conservative men, who love order peace
ity and profits who had every thing To
lose short time ago, and who begin to see that il
things 20 on much longer at this rate, they will
soon have nothing to lose.
These men, comprising by far the larger mart of the
people here, whom know as the shrewd economi-
cal, sensible, calculating men of the North, have
begun to think They have, at last, caught the hats
which they threw up on the l9ih OF April sauting in
an outbust of patriotic iervor the remnant of the
Stars and Stripes They have got those hats once
more hrm " placed on shrewd calculating, Y ankee
| heads, aud they have begun to think. The flags
st hnat above them, but the last shout has died on
the breeze. In the distance, looms up the black
cloud OF Debt and already the first notes of the
impending storm of Taxation tremble in their
ears.
They have been touched in the most sensitive
part OF their systematic Nerve Metallic has been
touched-aud it tingles to the furthest extremity
of Yankee toes. That inevitable expense book and
pencil, so familiar in Northern households has been
got out, and to man they have began to cipher
Already, many have got through the figures, and
discovered that the won't paw and thev are
ready to stop it, with the alacritv with which these
| people always drop losing speculation. Some
hnd 1t don't pay, because they that the South
eTn States will never be conquered back into the
Union. Others think that if they could be subdued
they can never be forced into terms of friendship
Many are disposed to dstrust the views of the Ad.
ministration and they believe that the whole force
| of the Goyernment will be called out, not to pre-
serve the Union, but to sustain the power of the
dominant party, and to enforce the destructive
views OF a few visionary fanatics
In April the people all thought they ere to walk
quietly through the South, and dine on the 4th of
July in Charleston if it should be necessary to 90
even so far. | sand to them--"Ilave Won really
cOmprehended what you have undertaken and
have you estimated the cost? 1t will cost vou an
| immense debt to do that, and bankrupt half the
Northern people" The answer always came
promptly: "No sir! We don't intend 10 count the
cost. The Government must be sustained and we
will pay fl it, Sooner than see one star off that
| flag, sir, We will spend every dollar and send (?)
every man to the war" But now if | repeat their
words, and say 'the Government must be support
ed, the cost is not to be c0nsidered," thev sav
l e-es-oh, yes Ger tainly, you say, the Govern.
ment must be supported, bat what a powerful
sight of money it is going to cost And look here,
oats IS deown to twentvhve cents"
You perceive the difference, don't YOU? Now
these are the people who have something 10 los e.
and are losing it Just fast pussible-snd tn ev
would stop the war at once if thew could see am
| feasible plan. But the time has not yet come
| Faction and madness rule the day. This party
must wait until the losses of the war have heen
felt more severey-perhaps some months hence
| when good many more millions of money have
been wasted, and many thousands of men ha We died
BY disease and battle
The second party here the extreme Black Re-
publican Abnlitionists, such Greeley, Beecher,
&c, &c. This party think comparatively small
of m. Gorernmant tbrnrgb TinnoIn So, o.
and others. They have been working for the past
thirty years for but one object, and that the
- S7~,''i' "f every sla We in the south
G.hey don intend to be satisfied with apvthinp
else, and they will see the country rulned, anu
even 'ne CONSTITUTION ana the Government destroy
eH, 10 accomplish this purpose They don endure
ne east aIiusioh {" peace or compromise, because
.neY hn"W mo thaC h"'hnng nut war can help their
cause. , lntlr warcry Is tine Union and the Consti-
IIu'."p' duu Geath 10 traitors, but they mean a
w W i,.".H ~ no the Constituti"n
| $50 10 -, y! :', ~ eS, ., '''"eis "' tne country, JET
onii -, %nu '"nt!e' pu' 'he constitution
rr;,ora ~ ilI an. I..H US Mn Not uea'h 10
80 80 - > ~ ;,I Ii' i u uest' ~ NeIioh l" every south
- ~ ~ ,I ~ ."n si''e- II Is t"eV VINO
t;naS Th a., o": anu . 'a'e
| '' "eH Su''''n the ADMINISTRATOR IN all vlo
~ c.nsad tba sst See .nev DM'e rsce' L
mareI, far n,,nriti ;,; al III ~ Ne" "r ~
pravino for neace am conyiroad ,hat ~, .;
mate intention of this party is the destruction of
our government What they want in place of it |
Tbey don't want arv roro of a.. o,a ,. oe
freeing slaves by em,ncipation, and rupniny them
off, bee ,use that brings the blacks to the Nnr,h
pan ,,t
them They propose to c,ntinnp th. war mill 90
they express it. the Suuth-rn States are uudp-
their feet and then they intend To ,,jsb ~, th.,p
The kind of punishment NAV be fouDd nv read
ing the history of the abolition of slavery in 81
Dominpo This is tba dss,inv to uhich tb mas,
refined intelligent and Christian naonIa in ,bs
,,,rl3 5,,;oa - -. " ca" P"P'0 r '!e
I'S 'S" W 'u4"i. e'Ent H'il"hS Oh 'helr
WI nay oe s"Ei'h h%n 'hat thty mean
JIMMY ouI tn'S, anu II 'hese Northern people doh
u s"on nv WIN some terflole acclueht u"
'hf' a'ny III iE'hla' I" oilng them to their
senSes' luen Tue h"Fu he'p Ihis country!
Out of Employment.
The following communication is addressed to the
editor OF the Democratic Standard, New Hamp-
shire.
MANCHESTER July 49, lSGl.
DEAR DIR MOST everybody Is out OF employ
htnt here-DuSiness Is dean, ana that the people OF
thus State who are opposed to the present unjust
war on our Southern brethren nav have an nppor-
tuuity to consult together, Of FVty Thnusdmd
IN this State recommend the assembling of the
people opposed to the war at part OF the State
in suitable plain or grove in the month of August
for consultation.
First Peace Meeting in Rroome County
New York.
At this meeting held on the 10Th uIt IN.
ool-a-s ootoIs .b, -,
:, ~ '"a' Wv II wal oou'u on'y emu IL
'"e U" anu eh'lre wreck OF all mat treemer
hold dear. An appeal was made to the people:
Loyal men, Uniop-lovino men. natriots st,,es
man ard oh r;stians r,IIv arnun5 r. G|,,:,.: @
and keen intact the laws, Efa Iihar,
and home deppnd mon Won, osssmbio ,p,rtie
| Iocsad from, tba - =
and might let Heavens arch resouud with your
voice Tor the restoration OF peace to our beloved
The Watering Places
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