The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-10

What sort Of an Administration can that be
which is founded upon system of terrorism and
lies? What are we to think of Government
which, claiming TO be conservative of the
Constitution and the laws, coolly undertakes to
violate that Constitution in repeated instances,
and to set aside the laws with impunty :?
If a man were under solemn oath to re-
spect certain ancient landmarks, and immedi-
ately thereafter should seek to obiterate those
landmarks, we should call him knave and PERU
rer. If the same VOW bound him to defend the
possessions of his neighbor, and be darinplv
seized upon those possessions, he is not only per-
Jared, but criminal. A packed jury may acqut
him OF the crime, and eulogze his good inten.
tons; bat guilty he still remains, and guilty he
VIII continue to be regarded in life and in DEATH
by all who believe in the sanctity of an oath and
seorn the sophism that we may do an evil thing in
the effort to promote a good end. A Just cause
never yet demanded for its maintenance the
use OF unjust means nor do men buttress
an honest argument with falsehoods. If
trled by this standard-and it is the only
one ny winch we can arrive at cor
rect oecislon-What sort of a Judgment must
right-thInking men pass upon the LINCOLN Ad-
minlstraton? Within the brief period of four
months it has deliberately made more inroads
upon the liberties of the people than any Govern
ment short of that of the Muscoyie or of the Ans
TRAN would have dared even to contemplate. It
has built up and put into motion all the machin-
cry OF pure despotism. 1t has its loathsome
tribe OF spies-its venal adulators-its military
satraps, and its host of swash-bucklers It has
the means to do i'll deeds, and sanctions the doino
OF them, without conjunction or remorse To
baseness and servility it awards paces and con
tracts and titles of honor end seeks to smother
every bold truth in an atmosphere of lies There
Is not measure it has undertaken, from the date
of the expedition to Fort Sumter to that of .ho -
pulse at Vienna, which it has not nermitted Ito
agents to deliberately falsify. The bnsest eahr;oo
lions, the most transparent of censorshina tho
most abomnable system of terrorism and repres-
sion, the most daring and lawless assumptions
of authority--:hese are the engines it works with.
Hypocritlcally feigning a love for the Union, the
man now sitting at Washington, and the
people who elevated him TO place and pow-
er, have done, and are still doing all that lies
within the compass of their ability to destroy
that Union utterly. They have vfed and ira
~~'' ''Ao hiSht'Seu koOutuj tuey nave SuDSl-
u'[et bands of abolitonists 10 tempt the slaves to
ieoei against, or to run away from, their mas
'ers; 'hey have held public meetings in various
piaceS 10 DO honor to the memory of that blood |
lnirSty ana ianatical rufian, JOHN Brown: they
nave passed laws in derogation of the material |
interests and equal rights of the South and for |
the especial benefit of their own sec,on. ond |
now that they have possession of the Governroont
and have proclaimed openly the doctrine Of on
"irrepressible conflict they seek to bring bscl,
by force into the Union those Southern States
which they have driven out of the Union
and which have sought peace, and safety and
Independence, under government of their own
'nooslng. The border slave States, DENYING the
constitutional right of secession, yet sympathsipp
",,n 'ne south in those grievances W ich thew had
''neieu IN common, earnestly sought TO brino
o'' reconciliation between the sections. How
we're 'heir advances met? With contumelv ond
oersion. Northern insoIence wonld anroo a.
nothing less than the unconditional ro,,,
seeded States into the Union 1t wa. So.
animated that the border slave Stata. ha'
sought redress within the Union, should b.
erousy dealt with. What has been tbe;r - - gen.
Let Missouri, let Maryland answer. Tbos. -.
saeSorth stigmatze as rebels-citizeps of tbs CO.