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

If audacity of statement could be made TO ac-
complsh the same ends as the truth, the adhe-
rents of the North might fairly hope to place
themselves and their cause before the world in a
most enviable light. From the beginning Of the
revolutionary movement in the South, down to
the present hour, the leading Republican journals
and politicians have been striving to mislead the
people of one section by misrepresenting those of
the other. They have resorted to every species Of
mendacity which is comprised between q disngen-
uous suggestion and palpable falsehood, in order
to throw upon the inhabitants of the slave States
the responsibility and odium which usually attach
TO those who wantonly initiate rebellion or civil
war They persistently deny that the Northern
people have been guilty of any unjust or aggres-
sive conduct towards the South: and they affect to
be greatly indignant because the latter is now as
serting t5 rights ut the lannon's mouth rather
than suing for their recognition before the Courts
or Congress. In the face of facts, which are as
familiar as they are undenable, the supporters of
the Administration dishonesty reiterate the charge
that the Southern people have refused to seek re-
dress through the proper channels, and that their
course in this respect is evidence of the unfounded
ished determination on their part to overthrow the
Constitution and destroy the Union. The manifest
absurdIty and falsiy of these assertions have not
prevented them from being repeated again and
again by those who are endeavoring to Justify
the extreme and Incorporating course of The
North 1t is only few days since Mr.. Grow, the
new Speaker of the House of Representatives, I'M
bushingly brought forward this groundless accu-
sation in order 10 reconcile their constituents 10
the nanguinary and fanatica policy on which
Congress was evidently about to enter. Referring
to the Southern revolution, he said: "Wahom an,
''e6ort an the mode prescribed By the organic lar for
ia redress Of all grieDonccs The naalconens appeal
''oy to The Grbirament of the s1cord' and he pro-
ceeded to enlarge upon the necessity of employing
the bayonet TO reduce to submission the rebels
who had thus causelessly revolted 1t will surely
puzzle any one who is tolerably conversant with
the history of the past few years to understand
how any man having decent regard for his rep
utation conld be induced 10 make such declara-
ton; and the fact that it has been put forth by an
individual who occupies high official position is
enough to destroy what little confidence the coun-
Try may Still have in the integrity of the Govern
ment OF which he is one of the advisers Mr.
Grow knows as well as any politician, in or Out
of Congress, that his statement is wholly devoid
OF truth. We need not refer TO the MANY eff
forts which the South has made to check the
growth of the anti-slavery agitation, and 10
procure some sufficient guarantees against that in.
reference with its Institutions which was con-
stantly threatened from the North 1t is enough
10 remind our readers of the proceedings of the
last Congress, which give emphatic contradic-
ton to Mr.. Crows falsehoods He himself was a
witness OF the earnestness and activity with
which Southern men labored to obtain, through
constitutional modes, the redress to which they
were entitled. Their grievances they had stated
fully and clearly. They complained that an i'm
por'ant law, which had been passed for their pro-
lection at the North was not fairly enforced in
that section, and was even nuifed by State Le-
glslatures; and that decision of the Supreme
Court, which defined their rights in the terrific
RES, had been repudiated by the party which
would soon assume control of the Government
They etroro, though the senate Committee, the
Committee of Thirty-three, the Border State Com
mittee, and the Peace Congress, to frame and pre-
sent TO Congress a scheme of compromise which
would have kept the North and South together.
No man doubts, that but for the contemptuous
and arrogant spirit in which Mr.. Grow and
his party met these overtures, Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas, and perhaps
Others of the seeded States, would have been to-
day in what is called the 'Union." With these
things fresh in the recollection of the public dc
the Administration and its friends really expect 10
impose upon the world by the ridiculous charges
they are now bringing apa:nst The Southern
people?