The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-15
BALTIMORE.
SATURDAY, JUNE Is, 1861.

II is an insult 10 the common sense OF Tue peC-
pIa of Nryland to tell them that their interest
anil th.ir duty make it incumbent upon them to
sustain the Northern war upon Southern instiu-
tons We say, advisedy, the Northern war; tor
it is nothing less than war gotten upio snhserVe
Northern purposes, melted by Northern merchants
aud Northern fanatics, sustained by Northern cap
ialls,s, and carried on exclusively by Northern
leyies. The Government which they call upon us
II sustain, is Il sectional Government--the UNION
which they demand that we should assist III pre-
serving, they first imperled by contenpuously
DENYING to the Southern States their consiiu-
tional rights us c0-eqUal members OF the Conied-
eracy, and are now in the act OF destroying by re-
iectng concjliatoTy measures and rtSorting to
armed force Even if a res Grafton of the UNION
hy tie sulugalon of the South were possible, it
would scarcely bo desirable. Northern ma'ignity
is no match for Southern loathng; and however
strongly the advocates of the war may protest that
subiu4ation is not intended, and however We
bemeutly they may assert that the sole
purpose of the Government is to reCapture
the forts and arsenals and public buildings from
which the Federal officers have been expelled, who
d0tsuor know that the very measures they have
adopted 10 accomplish this result involve war of
conquest, and that conquest implies not simply
the crushing out of the opposition at present
existing, but he subsequent exercise Of despotic
powers on the part of the victors and as regards
the North generally, perpetual domination? Tie
only condition in which the seeded States could
be coerced back into the Union, would he as sub
Jet provinces TO be occupied and held 20 their al
lcgiauce by force, and it is in view of ths.con-
tugency that Mr.. LINCOLN. without any juStiiica-
tion of Law, has ordered an immed jate and cnor-
nous increase of the army and navy. We know
already to what lengths he is disposed to 90. We
know moreover, that his gross and fragrant uSur-
pa,ions of authority render him justly liable to
impeachment. But who expects plant House
of Representatives 10 acts that it has been
called together for the express purpose Of sane
tiopin"; or to do anything more than ratfy edictS
which have already been matured for its ac-
-ceprauce? Mr.. LINCOLN may therefore play the
tyrant it'll impum1y, and at every new and more
daring violation OF his official oath his Northern
admirers may, and doubtless will
Rise up and do him reverence
But day of retribuon will come Bloody and
desperate the struggle may he, the South will
win and maintain its independence, as the colo
MES wrcstcd theirs from Great Britain; us the
Greeks triumphanty defed the power of the Otto
man, and as the Iiuugarans would have expelled
the Austrian bat for the intervention of the Musco-
wife. : separation is inevitable and the contest
will be finally narrowed down to one pont-the
line Of domarcation between the two Republics.
Long ago such eventuali,y was regarded by
Northern men as possible. BY the secession of
eleven States, and the neutral position assumed
by three OF the remaining four, that which was six
months. since viewed remote possibility has
been converted into assured certainty; and the
question to be settled, in due time, is whether the
dividing line shall be the Potomac or The Eastern
boundary OF Maryland. The North asserts that
under no circumstances shall Maryland be permit
Ted to join the Southern Confederacy. And Why?
0stsusibly because the Capital is built upon
portion Of her original domain, and to surrender
Maryland is to abandon the Capital. But there
is another and far mole cogent rrason.which actu-
aes the North in coming to this decision. 1t is
the dread Of the immense commercial advantage
which would accrue to Baltimore by becoming the
port OF en ry aud distribution for the South But
the very reason that induces the North to insist
on retaining Maryland is, Of all others, the strong
est reason why she should resolu'e!y refuse not to
be dragOoned into SUBMISSION. II Maryland were
forced into The Northern CJnfeieracy the fate of
Baltimore would be scaled, for Virginia holds the
outlet 10 the ocean, and controls both branches of
our great avenue to The West The chief seaport
of the South must, of necessity, he somewhere on
the waters OF the Chesapeake; and if Baltimore
were part of the Northern Coniederacy, Norfolk
would speedily attract to it the great bulk of
Southern commerce; and Subjected, as our vessels
W uld be, TO the restrictions imposed by the
Southern Conederacy upon the shipping of for
elgn port, our general commerce would dwinde
away to nothing, and our interior and coasring
trade by the loss of Southern custom, would he
reduced to a mere fraction of what it Is even now