The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-30

The Baltimore ChPper of Tuesday, at the head
Of whose columns stands the name of the Hon.
H. WINTER DAVIS, as a candidate for Congress,
contained summary of a portion of that gentle
mans address to the German voters who had
been invited to attend the public meeting at the
Bellevue Garden, on Monday. We presume that
Mr.. DAVIS has not been misrepresented by the
only journal in this city which has ventured to
defend him heretofore, or to endorse him now,
and we therefore lay before our readers an extract
or two from this brief epiome of his speech, re-
ported by friendly hand. He said:
There was. therefore, but one question to be asked
applied. and that is Are you a patriot or are YOU
traitor? 1t was no use smoothing things with
words. This is time to pander enemies of our
country 1t is season for ganzatOn-compete and
! thorough. Be ready. Have your arms within your
houses, and if traitors dare assa you your
erance of sentiments of loyalty to the Union they did
by their mob of rutans and after the 10Th day of
April, respond with alacrity and unanimty and sweep
them from earth Do not again let them get power
for if you do will be from your homes
! compelled to seek an asylum in some distant State
| your property confscated aud your nation ruined.
lle referred to the fact that the Legislature
meet in June and said that if that BODY succeeds in
passing any illegal act such the Public Safety bill
the act of secession anything akin them outrage
was the duty of the eope to sobey and arise in their
might and hur the traitors from their places He for
one, prepared to break down all laws the tendency
of which was suppress the liberty of the people The
within the law but they 20 beyond the pale of the law,
they must obey the people,
There is in political affairs height of audacity
so stupendous that ii is seldom reached even by
the most desperate adventures; and there is Il
depth of ignominy so low that even the most recl-
less blunderers rarely fall into it. Mr.. DAVIS has,
however, managed to scale the one and TO fathom
the other. 1t will be remembered that the persons
h. ! H.
men who with blows and curses were thrust back,
year after year, from the polls by the banded bulles
who stood by the ballot boxes, pistol in hand,
and crammed these with the fraudulent tickets by
virtue Of which Mr.. DAVIS was twice returned TO
Congress. These very individuals belonged to the
class which the orator had once insoentiy ordered
to stand back until their felow-citizens of native
birth had first cast their votes. These were the
people, whose fitness to be entrusted with the priv
ileges of American citizens, Mr.. DAVIS himself
had over and over again denied, and whose vested
rights he had complacently seen trampled under
foot by his partisans. But now he asks them to
give him their confidence aud support-he urges
them to take up arms and sweep his opponents
from the earth He who thought once that moth
ing could be more disreputable than to appeal to
citizens for their votes, now solicits
their suffrages. He who short time ago insisted
that no foreigner was fit to hold the meanest office
in the land, because he was incapable of under
the nature of this Government
now calls upon the Germans to determine
what is loyalty to the Constitution and
what is treason. He who lately corsd
cred it degrading to submit the paltriest
political question TO their arbitrament, now en-
treats these immigrants to help by words, and if
need be- by blows, to determine an issue which
involves the fate of the Republic When the
hireling clubs had usurped dominion over this
city, and their rule was sgnalized by hundred
shameful and bloody deeds, Mr. DAVIS had moth
ing to say in vndcation of "the liberty of the
people," And now that American citizens are
disarmed and the fundamental laws of the land are
overthrown, he has no word of Indignation
to utter against those who ego beyond
the pale of the law Germans are to take up
arms when they are willing TO use them in his be
half; but they must be content to submit to ndg-
nifty and outrage if they venture to oppose him
and his party. The laws are 20 be enforced at the
point of the bayouet against his political oppo-
nents; but it is only the "free play of freemen's
"spirits'' when his friends commit fraud and
murder. Such is the substance of Mr.. DA-
VS. system of political ethics. What the re-
spouse of the naturalized citizens to his
appeals ought to be, is question for them to de-
eide; but there can be no difference of opinion in
this community concerning the position Mr. DAVIS
must henceforth occupy after this humiliatng ex-
hibition.