The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-02
A FRANK AND MANLY ARTICLE.

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We are engaged il bitter
bloody and devastating civil war; with all the re-
sources of both parts of the nation rapidly becom
ing involved IN it Our duty to ourselves and to
our children, to civilization, to man and to God
demands that we task utmost wisdom and fore
cast IN estimating the objects of this war aripbt-
Nay, more; that duty demands Of US not merely
that we should ascertain the rightfuness of its o5
Jects, put also that we should have an assured NOR
al convection that the right means are used to ac-
complish those objects ::
1T one were to state the riqbffI objects of this
war to be the preservation of the capital nj tha
United States and the vindication of the authority
OF the Union against the doctrine of State seces
sion, no reasonable man could dissent from the
proposition: The vindcation of that authority and
are one and the same thing i !.
III there Is a reasonable probability that war will
40 II, the means are appropriate to the end and
!ne emo Itself Is right one If the military sub
lection OF the South is not probable or if. being
probable 1t is not likely to be followed bv a state
OF things, which will again make such a system as
the American Union a practicable government, then
Sh0hld u" sought Tn other mode.
W lth regard to the first of these conditions ,b
PROFANITY OF the military coercion of the south
opinions may differ. The public mind has hann on
poisoned with deliberate inculcstion of co,tonst
Tor our adversaries and their resources that avan
the Government has been driven to the sacrifice of
llves Wnicn tue public could i'll spare, and whose
private loss Is irreparabe. This has been done
apparently, In sheer deluson as to the power of tb
enemy; for there was certainly but one important
man IN office in the nation, and he the verv 80
on whose Judgment both the Government and the
people should have implicitly relied who il nov
known not to have shared that deluson WboIher
tne North can ultimately reduce the South TO sinh
mission, is military question: on which IL vvonId
III become mere civilians to express a confident
OPINION In all the resources of war we arc tho en-
perlors; In courage and in military canacitv tbn in
naoitants OF the two sections are probable enuaI
%" resources, courage and military skill are NOT all
ma are needed to ocerr" and hold IN saJiecion so
east country as the seeded States If the 1eo,1e NJ
that country are united and determined maj tbc1
hare become united and determined as qpporent. onS
h'8 only encouraging AischicrouS cnd fatal deiusion
to pretend The contrary.
But, assuming that it will ba in tho ro,-ar Of o
government to take military possession of fhe
South, there lies back of all that another question
Ihot question as, 'chether the american Union. no
zoe nave hno'7n 1T as 1t aoas designed to be, and
as atone u can be regarded as practicable avstc,
q government, can !be restored by such zaeoHs2w
sound opinion on this Inject must depend greatly
on the nature OF the Union, and on the PRINCIPLES
necessarily rests. "'ii's
The Government of the United States does not
rest upon force, and its authority cannot ba go
CISCO through military means. Its laws bind the
person anu property OF the citizen but his person
and property can be reached only tbrouoh tha
Judicial tribunals Its local administration in anC
and every State, must be carried on by local officers
anu ne people must voluntarily participate in sus-
tanning the representative machinery bv which its
central administration is kept alive The mon
strous heresy OF State secession or the pretended
authority of State to release its citizens from
legal ana moral obligation to obey the laws of
tue United States IS not more inconsistent With
the true character of system than ia the idaa
tnat the laws OF the United States can be adminis
tered without the voluntary cooperation of tha |
people. Inc monstrous character of the secession
tueory does not alter the fact, that every State
possesses government, and therefore nosseqsas on
organized and powerful means of resistance rebai |
lion and revolution. -'"'t
Let 1t be supposed, then, that the seeded States
are oFerrnn by military power and completely sinh |
dued. What reason ecists for erpectinI Thar = NO.
PIE mus conquered ioW Uolundrily return TO the eyo,
c'Se Of those ciut functions ,vithot aghich ,hee cam L
TO- Gnaon' ana no reliable exercise of the ahority of
L , om!on among them! When the hate enrardoSroJ
oy military conquest has become nosa;on ~. Gu Gu
transmitted as sacred duty of.patriotism fron,
generation to generation, who can look for that mn
oil people in the civil duties and RIGHTS
d tne mon, without which the Federal Govern1
nent is no Government at all? IF Won i-oi, 80
et to the collection of your revenues where ui,I
'ou get judges and jurors to enforce vour for
lures III you enforce them by military power
wat VIII your government become but miI;tarI,
government? If you can effect the conouast o. az
low can you expect to do it without MAKING snc5
nroads upon the State governments and the Stata
a ao mat the political institutions of the
eop,e VIII De broken down? If you can hold The
eoPte IN ui,oiuing Su5jugation io,c can aom Jo ~
,aeot destroying their acknowledged constitutional
tgNtSF ana when thisis done to ten or more States
= one enu VI lne Union, who can expect that the
OF our Federal system will remain what |
ur fathers made it, and what we have 60 homnt;
lilly enjoyed? ~ Do"n'f
4" all history, there has neuer been an instance of
people, once participating in the voluntary adj
go, otson q dJree popular government 7cho hare |
,entJ' ~ hear connection aoiM it, and hare subse
Ueen forced to resume 1t Jy military cououest
onouast no ue' just and lawful in theory such q
rev unsuted to ~ TIN IS Inc application of means en-
In
must leave effects which will nnt ~ Vi tEings,
Irtner OH tina 1t was before the consennenoa sun
tempted. we need not ask if the Union VII, as as
'ieraole to the South, when thew are tb iil pe
eered Will it be toierable to ourselves? f Ga
e successfully and safely hold in military subec-
on sucn portion OF our common country? Gan |
c unuertaEe to Go it, without creating a military
WI IL "nlcn our own liberties must be merged?
q! FEMALE SpY.-A correspondent of the C;pcin-
giment: ooiouel outhrle
oh SUNDAY last we discovered female soldier in |
i N9ahp-she enlisted in company d, on the IOth
may Iast ana has been doing soldier duty ever b,
zee. VA all the long marches we have mada che | "
carried her musket and knapsack the whnIe W
Ne, ana mas never complained or Jagged behind | =,
der it. " 'Do s'oou up | pi
On being closely questioned, she confessed that
Mas Spy, ana In constant communication with | -
1epJeIs-that she is member of the Knights of ~
Circle, and through that order members ."
ans Of s ne hnds everywhere, she has found the
e saws sho r,Warding her letters to the rebels
ing spy r Hns ssa full well that the penalty for
soner ever s; shoot her. She has been kent . pa
abus o uss safs sRee and will be forwarded fo
h"us ior SAFE keeping. "eu W TO- Re
me %t blackberry crop is of so much st,
r time of st ha 5s 9a changed
lier, to accommodate the shippers OF one nour An
cinnati. wa" "aoison to
ne n " Tr;b,,ne Gov. ooI-;--- r A.