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


His Excellency, Governor Hicks, on the 22d of |
April last thought it his "duty most respectfully
"to advise Iris other Excellency, Mr. LINCOLN,
"that no more troops be ordered or allowed to
''pass through Maryland, and that the troops now
'lthen off Annapolis be sent elsewhere" and
further, he did "most respectfully urge that
"truce be offered, so that the effusion of blood
''may might be prevented" His Presidential
Excellency did not degn reply TO the humane
or, as it now would be called most rebelious and
Observation-Disclosures but entrusted the cor
respondence, on his part to his accomplished Sec
rotary OF State. That,urbane and excellent person,
with a sincerity, the depth of which subsequent
events have enabled all curious enquirers to
fathom. said many things, in the discharge of his
epistolary functions, which belong to history. In
the first place he assured our ExcelIency. on the
part of the President that the latter had weighed
his 'counsels," with the respect be habitually
'entertans for the Chief Magistrates of the several
Estates, meaning very great respect, of course,
land especially for''-the Chief Magistrate of Ma
ryland. He then declared that Mr. LINCOLN re-
GREETED, ''as deeply as any magistrate Or citizen
''of the country could, Chat demonstrations
against the safety of the United States;
with very extensive preparations for the
'efueion of blood" meaning the taking
or Fort Sumter had made it his duty
ITO call out the force' which the Governor had
felt it his 'duty' to warn away from Anuapo-
lis. lie comfofted our Chief Magistrate how
ever, with the following refreshing assurance,
the religious good faith of which we now
SO fully appreciate and admire-t'The force
NOW sought to be brought through Maryland
he wrote Ifs intended for nothing but the defence
'ot the capita" meaning the march to Rich
mond, the pillage of Alexandria and Fairfax and
the burning of Hampton. Being positively GER
tain that Gen. SCoTT would never see the letter,
Or that if he did, the total absence of selEappre-
citation which characterizes the veteran soldier
would prevent him from seeing the fatery of a COM
parlson with NAsHINGToN-the ingenious Secre-
tary then added-''The President has necessarily
'conhded the choice ofthe national highway, which
THAT force shall take in coming to the CITY (mean-
ing, OF course, not the Northern Central Rail-
way, to the Lieutenant-G General commanding
1.-THE army Of the United States who, like his
ony predecessor is not less distinguished for his
humanity, than for his loyalty, patriotism and
distinguished (bi8l public service"
Since the 22d of April great changes have
taken place. Our Fxceency, instead of feeling
it his "duty" to advise that no more troops be
ordered into Maryland, has been perpetually cry
ing aloud-lile OLIVER TWIST and the horse-leech
of SoLoMoN--for ''more! more " Mr.. LINCOLN,
instead of engrossing his warrior levies with
nothing but the defence of the capital" has
given them the experiences Of Great Bethel ofI}ul
Run, and Manassa-and the Lieutenant General
not "like his only predecessor" and, elasl as
little like himsef--has consented TO exchange the
blazon of his earlier aud honorable shield for the
"fetterlock and shackle bolt'' of Provost Marshal
and keeper Of State prisonersl Cannot Mr.. SEW
ARD do something to render the glory of the
change more welcome yet to the Lieutenant
General? The confscation act, we think. nay b
construed broadly enough 10 afford him the On
portuni'y. The principles which WASHINGTON
asserted and defended, and the great EXAMPLE
which he left, have made more TRAITORS than
all other things besides. There is scarce a man or
woman, o. his name or blood, who is not now
'rebel," as he was. Cannot the astute and in
genlous Secretary get out process Of sequestraton
accordingly, against his goods and chattes undis-
trbuted? lie will fud at Mount Vernon, the
Key OF the Basile, presented By LAFAYETTE to
WASHINGTON. The noble Frenchman called it, in
his letter, "the main key of that fortress of des-
'potism, and transmitted it to his august friend
and commander as tribute from ia missionary
'of liberty to its patriarch" Along with it he
sent drawing of the Bistile, "as it appeared
few days after the order for its demolition" Will
not Mr.. SEWARD have siFort Lafayette inscribed
upon the key, and present it to the Lieutenant
General succeeding WASHINGTON with a model of
the fortress Of liberty to which the honored name
OF the friend Of WASHINGTON has been given? Tt
would be graceful and appropriate compliment,
and would blend the names of La FAYETrE and
SCOTT as perpetually as those of WASHINGTON and
La FAYETTE-in different sense, it is true. but
still quite as indissolubly. A letter Of the Hon
orable Secretary, on such subject would be de-
ightful TO behold. He might close it by another
parallel between the humanity" of the dis
1'ngulshed beneficiary and that of sthis only pre-
''decessor" in the Lieutenant Generalshin. Nav
az that rank is to be bestowed on but one at q
time, and General MCCLELLAN is determined to
have ii, Mr.. SEWARD might find in the annals of
the monarchy which erected the BasIe, a title of
still loftier preterment for the hero of Lundy,s
Lane and Mexico. How would it sound?
appointment by the President-Maior-G General
"McCLELLAN to be Lieutenant, General, rice ScoTT.
promoted to be Constable of the United States,