The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-27

marching
using all his exerons to prevent them from firing and
of the soldiers in the act of firing, saw the
Mayor. by quick movement of his hand throw up the
piece HENRY D iLAClDE.
Comment is unnecessary.
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To those who read the signs of the times Alright
there is significant lesson to be learned from the
present attitude of the North. All idea of concil
iation all the old professions of fraternal attach
ment, all the CLOSES and suberfuges TO which men
have resored to cheat themselves into the belieftha
they entertained no other sentiments than those of
the warmest regard for the South; sweet charity
cal friendships, generous instncts-all these have
been ruthessly swept away, and but one idea now
anmates all classes of the Northern people-that
idea is, sectional and commercial domination.
Henceforth there is to be but one power recog-
nized-the power of the North. To maintain it,
to enforce it, the South is to be subjugated, deci
mated, Observation-Disclosures if it needs must
be so. 1t is no longer quarrel over the status of
the black man, the right of property in slaves, or
the equal rights of the South in the territories.
These issues have dwindled into nothingness in
the presence of the grander and more vital object
of the contest which has now been inaugurated.
The population of the North are DANGEROUSLY called
upon to rise en- masSe; the wealth of the North is
poured forth without stint; the banks offer millions
of money to the Federal and State Governments.
Merchants, capitalists, lawyers, sore-keepers emu
late each other in rendering subscriptions 10 the
various funds for equipping regiments and provid-
ing arms and munitions for most unholy war.
Mr.. LINCOLN calls for seventyfye thousand men,
"A a. L.
five hundred thousand. The fanatic in the streets.
the preacher from the pulpit, the lawyer at
the forum, the broker at the bourse, Democrats,
Unionists and Republicans, as if by common
consent waive all former differences of opinion
and agree only in one thing-that crusade shall
be preached against the South. From Mason and
Dixon's line to the Rio Grande-if Northern
speakers and Northern journals are to be believed
we are TO have war-war to the knife-war
with all its horrors and barbarties. Not simply
pitched battles between opposing armies, leaving
the farmer TO till his land in comparative security,
and the mother to hush her babe to rest disturbed
by no fears for the safety of her little household,
and the merchant-beyond the limit Of the actual
field Of hostilities-to pursue his calling without
molestation but a war il which neither age nor
sex is to be spared. BEEcHER breaches it-GAR-
RIsoN gloats over it-GREELEY vehemently
lauds it. BRYANT demands that all the roads
to the passage OF Northern troopS-in spite Of the
commands of the Administration to the contrary
and JAMES WATSON WEBB UNANIMOUSLY proposes not
only that the dykes on the Mississippi at high WA
ter ''shal be levelled in hundred places so that
'he traitors and rebels living on the lower Mis-
''sssippi, be drowned out, just as we would drown
''out rats inlesting the hull Of ship" hut adds
also the diabolical suggestion ''that the negroes
'in tie border States shall be giye,s to understand
'tEat all moral oJljgatjons on tile part Of the North
"to sustain tie peculiar institution has ceased.
This is the people, and these are the counsellors
with whom the inhabitants of Maryland are
peced, at the North, TO unite their future destiny.
Can they do so, dare they ever think of doing so,
knowing what the temper of the North is, and the
insoent domination that would be exercised over
them? The passion and fury, the malice hatred,
and uncharitableness which now animate these
against all the States of the South, are things
to be noted and remembered. After making a lib
eral allowance for the exaggerated form in which
these facts reach US, enough remains to show that
the bond of brotherhood is irrevocably severed
and that they have resolved hereafter to rule or
ruin. If there be any portion of the old manhood
still left among the descendants of those men who
fought at Cowpens and Kings Mountain, and
changed possible defeat into confident victory at
Princeton and Trenton, they will never permit the
Northern Vandals to do either. This scheme of COM
mercal supremacy, to be fought out under the plea
pf Twin To oftl
sustaining Government that does not represent
single Southern State has its origin and sup
port in the intense evaporation of Northern man
uiacturers and Northern merchants, at the pros
pect of losing that trade of which they have hith-
erto enjoyed almost a monopoly. This is, in real
ity, the phase which the sectional feud has now
assumed. They fear the growth of rival cities in
the South; of distribution among the Southern
ports of a considerable portion of the commerce
which has aggrandized the North, and the
release of the Southern people from that system
of commercial vassalage TO which they have been
subjected for more than three quarters of a CEN
fury. They have, moreover, not unfounded
apprehension, especially in New York, that if
Maryland were member of the Southern Con-
federacy, Baltimore would become, by reason of
the salubrty of the climate and its admirable
geographical position, the Emporium of tn Sonth.
To prevent results SO disastrous to the North,
they are willing TO make large sacrifices in the
way of blood and treasure. If their fury did not
blind their vision, Or their fears cloud their iudg-
ment they would perceive that all this vast ex-
pendiure of money and all this waste of human
life must be utterly futile. They cannot conquer
the South, and when the war ends the two sec
tons will be further apart than they are even
now. The irrepressible conflict" will have
worked itself out TO the only conclusion CT which
it is capable-utter alienation and bitter mutual
hate. The States of the North will obey their
laws of attraction and gravitation the States of
the South in like manner will conform also to :
theirs. The Union is already dissolved, and to
believe that it can ever be reconstructed upon the
old basis, is sheer midsummer madness The die
is cast and if the separation was not absolutely
inevitable before, the events of the past week have
made it so.