The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-05
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BALTIMORE.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1861.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1861.
Il has become perfectly apparent TO the people
Of Maryland that, under the mild and genial rule
Of Mr.. LINCOLN, they are to he 'talen in and
done for and after IL fashion which, by
some strange perversily of Judgment, intelligent
men, who know what liberty is and are capable Of
n.pr,ciatjug its blessings, will b, very apt to de-
nounce os-dcspouc. 1t would, however, be
highly improper in them to assert that Mr.. LIN
COLIN has violated his official oath; for does not
every body know that the chief magistrate Of such
% republic rs oars on was may rend the C0nsti-
tuition into shreds if he will only assure us that in
oa.ug 50 he is reforming his sworn duty to pre-
serve 1t IN Its Integrity, and may override The
laws at his sovereign will and pleasure under the
specious plea that it is done for the purpose of en-
forcing them? OF course, there will be differences
Of opinion on this point and, as matter of
course, those who regard the acts Of Mr. LINCOLN
rs unconstitutional, illegal, and tvrannicaI, must
be content to hear themselves stigmalized as trait
ors. The marvel to us is that, Notwithstanding
the terrible ban under which they are placed
there should still be so many millions of peonle
between Mason and DTXoN's line and the Rio
Grande who cW pertinaciously insist on believing
the evidence of their own senses in spite OF
all that Mr.. LINCOLN and his Northern sup
pGrters can say TO the contrary. These
obstinate skepticS have always been under the
impression that the sovereignty of State was
something more than a myth; that confedera-
ton Of States was never intended to mean a CEN
tralizcd despotism, and that Il President was
clothed with limited powers, which he could not
ovcrslcp without being guilty of usurpation.
Such popular errors are, possibly. the result Of =
detective education; or perhaps-as the North an
pears 10 entertain more enlightened views with
respect to them-they may be nothing more than
decprooted preJudiceS which the South has fool
ishly nurtured for more than three-uuarters of .
century, and in which it has been confirmed nv
the united testimony of the founders of the Re-
public, and of the wsest statesmen and iurists
both North and South, who were their contem
roraries, or who succeeded them. 1t is sorrowful
10 think that those great men were laborinp under
dtusion, and that all their commentaries ,,pon
the Constitution, and the laws of the land. tbo+
MARSHA-L's rulings, and SToRY's luminous dis
10 nave oeen mere waste of The paper upon
which they were written, and that the only inter-
probation that is worth a rush is the Interpretation
according to LINCOLN. Out upon this barefaced
hypocrisy The journalists of the North. who
defend the measures of The Administration, and
applaud to the echo every fresh encroacbment
upon the liberties Of the people-every lawless as
stt,. Of,
served jghs OF tae States, know, but too well. that
what they publicly sanction is in sycophantic sub
SeryIancy to the interests of their section and is
utterly at variance with their own convictions.
The New York Tribowe boldly declares that Mr..
LINCOLN has full power to suspend the hG6eqs cor
'@' yet Two of its editors GEORGE RIPLEY and
CHARLES \. DANA-the latter being recognized rs
esl'oI-n-chief in theubsence of HoRAcp GRrr7rv
'i "A article on habca& corpus, published by them
}" HE new A"'erica@ Cyc'opc3ia, expressly state
'''t, I'll has been soIcmnly decided that the LaI.ss
.@'fhf act Gun o,dy be slggta9l1 I'M the Leq..l,-
''-T'- tongress-:nd that the PROCLAMATION #
martial law by military officer is not su1i-
Gent. But why should we complain that the
'"t fW'adlHm Of American, rs Of English lib
cry. ms been subvered, and that citizens are NOT
9-' arrested without legal warrant. but ar, az
"..r carried of as prisoners into another State
.a we are painfully conscious that it is but thr
-""IoS ACT OF long series Of aggressions, any
owe o. which, in the purer days Of the Republic.
'"1d have subjected the President who dared 10
RID a"h things 10 Impeachment and official deora
3sHau2
"'' are we to infer from this tlone train Of !
a7HSts and usurpations'' but that in the Ian !
-"-e OF the Declaration Of Independence, sif
.''"c'S design to reduce lis under absolute des-
rodam"
LET the facts speak for themselves:
tie has uSurpcd the functions of co-or5;noto
branches OF the Government by ordering an in
'e OF the army and navy, and by suspendipc
lie act OF hcJeas cGspaS.
Tic has affected TO render the military indie
pendent OF, and superior to the civil power
'ig ''5 transported persons beyond the limits Of
", o'aa IN which they lived, into another Stale
10 ne there tried for pretended offences.
lie has Illegally mustered an army of vo,rr-
,.'s ana administered to it new oatb
!" grant contempt of the protest of the Cow
,'o'' ana IN direct opposition to the known will
u '"' legislature, he has quartered STANDING
"ml upon this State to harass and oppress the
'coplc OPpie'' '"e
lie mas violated the provision of the Cons,i,u-
ION winch comedies to the people of a State s.tbe
right 10 bear arms and declares that it nsbau
"o' ne Ihiringed," by disarming the militia Of
ems. VI ner private cltl-
He hos cou,.1 ,
,,,,, "9 caused arrests to be made on blank war
' ~, ""u without form of law.
ng ''S invaded the sanctity of private CORES.
r'' mas cut off our trade by wantonlv obstrnct-
= ~ o"' ~"" avenues of commerce.
-"9'S are the charges which MARYLAND hr;,,,, T
5 sa.n', President LINCOLN. Lesser offences than
rese were held i'll l77s sufcjsn, tn tie IMAM
,o'1"les in throwing off their aIlas; 10 lus''y the
anu What, then, ought that 1871 ','',e 10 eng
oppressed by the acts of One w6 Sp in TO 40 VINO
nE'' acknowledged tina, he wa, %" '.sa IN his lnaG
' VINO has since dared to concs n,r servant,
overs OF government within b;n,,,r all the
@s day, virtually if not in reailT S e,o and is at
ne complete authority Of dica,c,' clothed with u