The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-03
From the augusta (Ga.) Chronicle
A VICTORY FOR THE SOUTU

Our rulers, though making every ureparation
Tor war, give evidence of desire for peace Our
triumph will not be on the battlefield but we shall
conquer oy conciiiation and justice. In anicipa-
In one expressive word, presents the olive branch
to our former confederates. It makes provision
Tor the admission of ''other States" thus signf-
cantly changing the phrase "new States in the old
Constitution. Under this clause any State North
or south, slaVeholding non-slaveholding, can
JOIN the Confederacy, and we are unable consist
emily, 10 exclude State because it NAV be non
slaveholdlng. Such an exclusion for such a cause
would be in violation of great princinle for which
the south has been contending for years We are
ueDarred Dy our own action from inauiring into
mittance ~
We are sorry to see the position taken that none
but slaveholding States should belong to the con-
federdcy. We think that it should be clearly
shown that our own stability and prosperity, and
the safety of our slave property demands that a
Gordon of free States under constitution recog.
nlzlng property IN slaves, and under laws in ac-
cordance with such constitution should be inter
poseo between US and our bitterest enemies of the
extreme North. The recent case of the NEGRO
murderer Anderson, refused by the English author
ties to be given up, when demanded in accordance
with solemn treaty stipulations, is Indication of
"hat we may expect when Canada is brought down
! to our borders. Therefore, we repeat that our
| safety demands that the free States on our north
erna border, if they seek admittance, should not
be refused.
II the mon Is ever to be reconstructed, it must
be re-moceled under constitution Our new
| Government has presented one to the countrv vary
similar to that of the United States and all acknow
ledge that there few changes that are not for
the better. A National Convention to take into
consideration the state of the country will soon be
called If that Convention should propose the
adoption OF our Constitution, with all or most Of
Its provisions and guarantees, and any State or
NUMBER OF states voluntarily assent to it, and their
people ratlfy it, how we refuse to admit them
into this Coniederacy, and what possible objection
can be consistently urged against their admission?
we should neither expect that those States which
have persistently denied US our rights would ioin
us, nor is it desirable they should.
In no other way than by building from the new
foundation, can great and powerful nation, able
to stand before the world as frst-class power be
formed out OF the fragments of the old Union.
Such course would not be reconstruction-which
implies the use of all the old materials-but re-
Formations; and we have hopes that it will be at
tempted, and If attempted, will succeed. 1t will
pc victory to be proud Of if the South could
prlng most OF her sister States again to live to-
gether under one Constitution, and that Constitu-
ton hers.
A SELL ON SUR OF CLoraEs.-The Providanoa
Press gravely relates that on Friday wagpisb
shopkeeper in that city thought to put Joke UPON
the ignorance of one of his customers So after
upbraiding him for wearing so seedy a sniff nj
clothes, he told him that if he couldn't afford ia
wear better clothes, he would give him an order
tor suit. The offer was accepted, and the would.
be wag drew an order and handed it to his custo
mer, well knowing the hieroglyphics would be all
Greek to him. Following the direction, the man
presented the order TO an undertaken on Pine
street, and there learned for the first time that the
promised suit was a ccGjn! Although a trife sset
back" the man selected the coffin, fswthout regard
to expense" and took it back with him to the shor
OF his kind friend, where he laid it down. and re
marked that he would leave the suit until he had
occasion to Try it on. The undertaken don't trade
back, and the wag finds his joke ''coffined anG
confined" to his own premises.
I. &. CoURTENAY, Esq, late sheriff of st. Louis
county, Missouri, has instituted suit against his
late head deputy and cashier, Mr. 4. NJ. Barron fol
the large sum of thirty thousand four hundred ant
sixty SIX dollars, alleged to have been received by
him and not accounted for to Mr.. Courtenay, OF
his retirement from office, in August last The
trial is set for the April term Of the Common