The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-29
BALTIMORE.
MONDAY, JULY 20, 1861.

Mr.. LINCOLN is beginning 10 be understood, at
last, even in the Oldest portions of the old world
Wisdom aud knowledge which first dawned upon
mankind in the East, have begun to peep forth,
promisingly, once again, from the same antique
quarter. May their light not be long in illumining
those benghted regions of the Western continent,
where the blind support of n vulgar depo,ism is
still COMPOUNDED with patriotic devotion to repub
lican institutions
Under the head of Gan Arab Newspaper
recent number of leading English literary journal
informs us of the existence of fourishng weekly
published in Arabic, Mt Beirout in Syria. After
sundry pathological details, which we are not
Orientalists enough to appreciate, the writer tells
us, that among the leading articles with which
the Syrian editors had Just been instrucing their
readers, was one upon the American war. By
way of showing, too, how completely the thing
was understood by our Turkish Or Arab conem-
porary, it is further mentioned, that the subject
was considered in connection with &c the warike
preparations in Europe and the Warsaw Massa-
"cres " " The very fact of their making this
Comparison" says the English writer, and
''their reflections on it, and their taking notice of
the American affairs at all, is something for a ma
ton, which many regard as complete barbarians -
We own that the fact does not seem TO us to be
very surprising, for there is an obvious point of
relation between people emerging from barbar-
ism into civilization, and a civilized community
revering to barbarism. No where could the
doipgs of the Federal Government, in Maryland
for instance, be understood and appreciated one
half so well, as in province of the Turkish En-
pre-ior no where else, within reach of civilizing
influences, is government conducted so much upon
the same model The red fez and wide breeches
OF the ZouaVe are not more certainly a copy of
the raiment of the mussulman fanatic and MERGE
nary, than is the system of oppression which the
Zouave is here to maintain, borrowed from
the principles and practices of Constantinope.
The massacres of Warsaw and the invasion Of
Virginia are therefore classed together at Berout,
with wisdom which is not astonishing when we
reflect that it arises from the daily experience OF
men, to whom tyranny is so familiar, that they can
catch the base expression of its bloodshot eve
from beneath any mask it is false enough to
wear.
But the discernment Of our Syrian friends does
not stop even here. On the 30th of May they IA
vored their fellow subjects of Beirout with one of
Mr.. L1NcoLNs proclamations done out of the Hi
nos dialect into Arabic. But they were not to
be humbugged into believing-as Mr.. LINCOLN
desired the outside world to believe-that the
manifesto was meant for tho people of the United
States, to whom it was ostensibly directed They
saw, perfectly we'll that it meant no such thing.
and that Mr.. LINCOLN, instead of addressing him
n nj hn I
fight and enhdue themselves, was, in reality. call
ing upon the North alone to array itself for the
subJugaton OF the South. With oriental simpli-
city, therefore, they announced the document as
1.-THE proclamation of the American President TO
the inhabitants of New York" They saw Wall
street in the whole business. They knew that il
was New Yorks war, for New York's benefit to
be paid for by New Yorlss money, and So thew
called the clap-trap by its right name Wise
Arabs! Most discerning and outspokeh Turks!
Truly does the London writer say that the Beirout
Journal may become great instrument of civili-
'zationp' Will not the Orentalists of Harvard and
Boston be persuaded to aid it in such good work.
by translating and disseminating it in their sec
toni Cannot Mr.. EVERETT write paper upon it,
or the learned and witty DR.. HOLMES introduce it
into his next novel, in lieu of snake-nature2 We
commend the enterprise to those eminent citizens
Reis-ut- MasheikhG is the Arabic given for the
President of the Senate, and imagination NAV
paint the romantic character of the appellatye
into which the title of the President of the United
States will be transmitted, if the Vice President
is equal to SO much. 1t will be like a CHAPTER
from the Arabian Nights, when the Lieutenant
General and the Secretary of State Gen. BANKs
and Gen. DIX and Gen. BUTLER, are all converted
momin0tlm into Turkish Pachas, each with his
appropriate tail. Again we say, let Boston dedi-
cate itself to the novelty. Having adopted the
spirit of the Koran, our "Northern brethren
will find lis language extremely natural They
will not know, until they try, how appropriately
the Arab tongue will lend itself to The description
OF war, in which the temper of a Bedouin or
Spahi is mi led with the fanaticism of multi
or dervish, and the constitutional ideas of a
grand vizier.