The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-16
SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Another Letter from Maine.
Through the kindness of a gentleman in this city,
we are enabled to publish the following letter. 1t
is from the same high source as the one previously
given to our readers, and is especially valuable at
this time, not only because of the wisdom and sa-
gacity of the views expressed by the writer, but
also indicating the set of the current of Northern
opinion.-Eds. Exchange.
PORTLAND, August II, 1861.
Dig Dear SIR: duly received your letter of the
Sd inst 1t is too early yet to reply definitely to
your inquiries about Northern sentiments as to
proceedings Of Congress, &C., &c.
My own impression is that Government will feel
the necessity of making enormous sacrifices to raise
the national loan OF $500 600 900, and already it is
manifest that little of that enthusiasm which started
off the three months soldiery remains to urge men
into three years war enlistment | think the
manifest sehshness of Congressman in securing
to themselves and relatives the offices civil and
military, and the Government contracts is also
having the effect of dampening the ardor Popular
patriotism, and that deep-felt doubts are creeping
into the feelings OF the masses, whether Govern
ment will be able, within any definite time or with
any definite amount of force, to suJjuqae the South
at ALL or II at all, certainly not rs was originally
conceived. Sure am, ali would be glad to save
the Union, and all glad to secure peace again.
either with or without running the Union if a
way could be devised for doing it aoithom dishonor
to the North. Although there are ultra men most
influential in occasionng hosilities who are still
most ultra Tor pursuing hostities until the South
Is subdued into submission to the Federal Admin
istratioD, they the men who have failed to.
permit conventions of the people for the purpose of
amending the Constitution, when such agencies
would have been efectusl, and who insisted on
war, and nothing but aoar, Southern submission.
haye 20 doubt if the @ po re only
pie, by having the public voice act in constitutional
conventiona, and Government jobbers and specula-
tors among politicians were also in a like manner
brought to the level which public sentiment would
HON cnh hrro EI-n,
would be acceded to, or offered BY the masses of
the Northern voters, which would end the war and
the vocation of those busy-bodies in thirty DAYS.
The direct tax will no doubt direct public senti
ment very solemnly upon the tendency OF the war
lst to destroy business; 3D. to depreciate all kinds
OF property; and, 3dly, to waste in the hands of
otice-holders and specializing contractors, large
per cent: oil what remains, through taxation and
us machinery. 1t may now be too soon for any
party at the North to assume any position for end.
ing the war.
The popular mind in republic is easily misIed
Tor time by ctdp-trapand ad captandum names
'cHr upon "rebelS," while that Specification can
be given to the war-by the use of names must have
the popular ear; and the conditions of peace, or
laying down of arms by "the rebels,' can be made
to appear alone honorable to Government
But if the time should come when the people of
the North shall fully appreciate, as think they
already ought to appreciate that what ecas in its
origin, rebellion, and should have been crushed
out under Buchanan, as a like attempt was crushed
out IN other days under Jackson, has ceased to be
rebellion, and become popular revolution of States
against the old Union of States then they will
also appreciate that conquest will cost if at all
feasible, more than its worth fchen non in both
lives and treasure, and that it is not dishonorabe
tor the present Government to meet the revolu-
uonlsts halfway on terms to secure an honorable
peace.
That such time will come is certain. if il he
true that there remains no more of old Union SEN
timentS in most of the border States and all soutb
of them than is indicated.
The Absurdity of Conquest
The Democracy of York county Maine at
meeting adopted the suboiued resolutions:
RESOLVED, That in our Judgment the Disseminated t,
ing which has arisen among brethren of Southern
states caused by the agitation of the slavery question
might nave Deen quoted by Cancellation com
promise equally honorable to both sections and that a
gay OF rerlbuton will overtake the Republican
ana press Tor their unwise and unpatrotc course
IN preerring to carry mere party dogma IN the
@ OF great and prosperous people from
horrors oil civil war and national ruin.
ReS0LreI, That the reconstruction of the Union hv
force against the emblttered feeling and the united
strength OF nearly onehalf the States is palpable an
surdy and an utter mpossbility, and even If the ra
VOTED states should be overrun and subiueated thew
can be held to their allegiance only by Changing our
eminent to an unlimited monarchy; aud while nnrsnin
TINS delusion of re uniting the States by coercon q
standing army has been raised without color ~ low
freedom of speech has been abridged the right f nro
lection Of person by hdbeds corpus the RIGHT Of in
homes, papers, and effects the right of petition for re-
uress Srievancesal these great constitutional rights
on which our freedom rests being violated and nm.
less an Immediate check be placed upon these usurna
main to us. VIII ie'
Peace.
The following is an extract from letter from
Maine, to the editors of the New York Journal of
Commerce.:
BANGOR, Aug. lO.-NesSrs. Editors: a great re-
acuon IN public sentiment is rolling over the
State OF Maine. In almost every county, town and
hamlet the people, in their conventions and pripa-
ry meetings, are deploring the unhappy state of
the country. and demanding peace policy. Not
cringing dishonorabe peace, but one based upon
principles of mutual forbearance and COMPROMISE.
The Republican party has become so emphatica