The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-07
From Ws London Times, Nay %
SECRETARY SEWARD'S LETTER TO MR.,

War to the kni'e-war, il necessary, pushed tn
absolute determination, to the destruction of cities
the desoaon of provinces the letting loose of mil
lions of negroes on their pr0prietors-thesew words
furnish briet abstract of the resolution at which
| the people and Government of the United States
appear to have arrived. Respective enity is dele
gated to Heaven, and Government and people alike
breathe the language of massacre and destruction
No potentate against whose the ancestral vas
sails OF his house, who followed his foreiathers To the
Crusades, have risen in armed revolt, can feel more
acutely the outrage to his sovereign rights than
the ImperIouS Democracy of America, founded on
the declaration that all men are free and equal
and that every man has ri4ht to seek his we'll
being and happiness under whatever Government
he pleases. The term secession" is objected to-
though, alter ALL it is probably the most suitable
to describe the action OF a Sunderbund or a por-
ton OF federation Withdrawing itself from the re-
mainder; because ''secesson," like "federation -
expresses an absolute equality and correlation of
rights which, in their present mood, the Northern
States are not prepared to concede.
The spirit OF George Ill. seems to have en- tered
into the descendants of his egolted subjects 'Bu-
fore will hear" writes George Ill. in l779, "uf
any mans readiness to come into Office | will ex-
psct to it signed under his own band that he is
determined to keep the empire entire and that no
troops shall consequently be withdrawn from A mer-
lea, nor independence allowed" "The
thought Of a dissolution of the Union peacably or
by force" writes Mr.. Seward to Mr. Dayton
"has never entered into the mind of any candid
statesman here, and it is high time tina it be dsms-
sed by statesman in Europe" We profess that we
think the language of the King the more moderate
and reasonable of the two, for George Ill only re-
fused to admit to his councils any one who would
not sign declaration against that independence
which he was forced to admit himself three years
after wa rdS, while Mr.. Seward not only refuses to
admit the possibility of that object for which one
half of the Union is in arms against the other but
issues an inhibition to all European statesman to
allow such thought to cross their minds This is,
indeed, high strain of prerogative, and one to
Iph Df ia AM tin tod of ED-
rope could for moment aspire.
But we do think his own experience might teach
Mr.. Seward little charity and liberation for
the doubts and difficulties of European statesmen
Let him remember his uncertainties till within
the last two or three weeks let him altoge ether
forget that If We have not the confidence that
he has, neither have the advantage of the same
unerrng Mentor to guide The voice of the
American people is, after all, only the voice of a
local divinity, whose oraces do pass current on
this side of the Atlantic. Mr.. Seward may believe
and trembe, we are not disposed either to do the
one or the other.
We have had occasion to point out the utter in
adequacy, and even the ignorance of the real ma
ture of the quarrel, which characterized Mr. Sew
ards proposition for Cancellation, and we have re-
marked how precious time has been allowed to
steal by, the loss of which can never be compensa-
ted by Efforts 0t the most spasmodic energy. We
must entirely decline to recognize in Mr.. Seward
that gifted seer to whom the future is the pres
only of the events of a civil war, between the two
cOntederaces which may possibly shiver to pieces
in the very first moment of direct impact. but who
also tell in language i'll suited to the present
condition of his country, that in America there
will be only one nation and government, the
republic and the constitutional Union
that have already survived a dozen national
changes and changes OF government in almost every
other country.
This is the message which, through Mr.. DAYTON,
the American Secretary OF State sends to the Gov
ernment of France-a message, If not Of defiance,
certainly one ,sh'ch sounds rery Ike an Insult
Let us grant that the South will be CONQUERED
can the vauquished States be more admitted
to the enjoyment of equal rights? Is it conceva-
bic that Mr.. Davis, Tor instance, any of the
present Southern leaders, again take their
seats in the Senate, to deliberate with the men ofthe
North on the common interests of the Coufederacy?
Will the North ever submit again, after the expe-
rience of this year. to the overnment OF the South
eIn PRESIDENT Will it place the army the
Treasury in the hands of a Southern Secretary
after the experience it has had of Mr.. FLOYD and
Mr.. Cobb? Will the victors submit to be outvoted
by the vanqushed? Is Mr.. Seward of opinion that
the institution of slavery survive the vicissi-
tudes of a bloody and keeRly contested war? Is he
prepared to give the four millions of negroes who
would thus be emancip ted, a voice equal to that
of the whites in the national councils? Will that
ant pathv which now burns so tiercey be allay we'd
by the process of conquest and subugation? And
il all these things are more than doubtful what is
it that gives Mr.. Seward the confidence to saw at
a moment when the world stands aghast at the bor-
rible preparations for a civil, and probably ser
vile war, that the government of the United States
will stand hereafter as it has hitherto, the object
of human wonder and affection?
From the London Times Mav 27.i
THE UPRISING OF NEW ENGLAND FOR THE
UNION.
1t is curious chapter in the
history of political vicssitudes. Less than cen
tury ago Massachusetts and Virginia were closely
leagGed for the promotion of rebellion. Franklin
in one State and Patrick Henry in the other
bined their talents for the assertion of liberty and
were successful. Now, before even the c0ntempO-
raries of these very men have all expired, we see
Virginia once more advocating the principles of
revolution while Massachusetts is enforcing at the
swords point the doctrines of legitimacy and tory
ism. The errand of the New England bat alious to
Washington resembles more nearly than they
would care to believe the errand OF General Cages
regiments to Concord 1t is a remarkable cOnver-
sion, but not a unexampled We see the prin
cpe in action everywhere. The government of
revolution always declares itself Legitimate" at
the first opportunity, and congregation of sece-
ders eagerly protests against repetition of seces-
sion. The Americans however, are all dissenters
together. They all combined to repudiate the old
political establishment, and they must not be sur
prised to find that schism reproduce itself in poli
tics well as religion. On the general prospects
OF the case we concur entirely with our correspou-
dent. we admit that the proceedings of the Con
iederate states express nehug less than revolution.
We admit that this revolution has not been pro-
VoKen. we depIore the rupture, and are dis
posed to fear, though ON this point there be
certainty, that the results will be fraught with dis
aster. But all this is beside the question. The
Southerners have no real against their