The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-09-07
THE DAILY EXCHANGE, SEPTEMBER 7, 1861.
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Uessrs. Eiitors-Your paper of Tuesday contains
communication which refers to articles in the
August number of the AHa,tic Monthly, a magazine
hich speaks the sentiment of the Influential classes
in Northern politics and society, and has long
reflected the Abolitionist sentiment. In
the September number of the Atlantic, pp 3G0-Gl,
is paper. written with much ability, entitled
1.-THE Advantages of Defeat" from which l beg
leave to make the following extracts:
eve are fairly engaged in a war which cannot be a
short though enemies should before long
Law down their arms for it merely support
and defend the Constitution and to retake the propery
the United States not merely to settle the question of the
right of majority to control insolen and rebelhous
minority in the republic nor to establish the fact of the
national existence and historic unity of the United States
but is aso,and more essentially war for the establish
ment OF civilization in that immense portion of
country in which, for many years. barbarsm has been
gaining power II Is Tor the establishment OF liberty and
Justice Of freedom of conscience and liberty Of though
equal law and personal rights throughout theSouth
If these to be secured without the abolition of
slavery is for the abolition Of SldUsTy We are
not making to reesabsh old order Of things Bat
to set up aec one ne are moi giying ourselves ana
fortunes for the purpose Of fighting fclo battles, ard
then making peace, restoring the Southern States 10 their
old place in the UnionJ for Tie sake Of destroying the
root from 1cct the lglr has sprung and Of making another
such impossible. 1t is not worth while to do only
half or quarter of our work" The war, if it
| is to be successful, must be a religious war.
! The words have quoted were not written for
|
here. There were some time ago among US, a Ger.
| tain number of honest and intelligent men who
| really did believe that Mr.. Lincons war was waged
to preserve, or to restore, that noble and beau
tiful Union under which we even all bow, and
which Maryland had learned to prize so highly
and to love so well. IL may possibly happen-fol
| great are the wonders of psychology-that some o
those gentlemen are still of that way of thinking
If it be So | commend to them the language have
quoted and the rest of the article from which it is
taken They will there see that the war is not "tc
re establish old order of things, but to set up
new;' that if the North triumphs, the South i
not to be restored to its old place in the Union, bu
is to be ploughed up for the destruction of ''tht
root which has all along given such sore otfenc
| to the refined moral instincts of Black Republican
ism. If they will note this warning in connection
with the plan set forth in prominent administra
tion journals, of reconstructing the Union by abo
shing State lines, &c, they may at length perceiy
that, like the Lncolnism Of defending the Capt.
tall this shibboleth of ''the Union" is but a spe
cious phrase by which the partisan government
now reigning at Washington hnpes to gain litt
more time, and delude yet while longer unsuS
| pecting patriots TO its support.