The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-09-13
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remibding us of our own statute book in troublou.
un"s, gives us some insight into the Legislation =,
| h session. We have "An Act to sntbor
! lie National Loan "An Act for Tho
| Temporary Increase OF the Navy" "An Act
to Increase the Present Establishment of the United
| states; IAN Act to provide for the Suppression
| OF Reb' Iii N and Resistance to the Laws of tn,
| United States;' f'An Act to define and punish GER
tam consriracies;' a supplementary "Act to pro
tect the Commerce of the United States and Punish
the Crime ot Piracv;" "An Act for the Better Or
ganizaion of Military Establishments" can Act
to punish certain Grimes against the United States
AN Act to confscate Property used for Insurrec
uonary Purposes" another LIan Act; another Act
Tor increasing the Army, and two Acts for raising
'ne pay OF all the officers and prvates in the SER
vice.
Talk Of Lord Sidmouth's Six Acts! WHY, the
vigorous measures" of limited monarchy are
thld paliaives compared with the desperate self
Goerc'"h OF Republic in extremties, and the
i't'F " ol the subject is far more awkward thing
~ HahuIe than the liberty of the citizen. We have
p'I.re Us copy OF one Of these Acts-that for the
oet'er organization of military establishments
and, though it does not actually confer mon the
President as has been supposed the ripbt of dis
missing officers at pleasure II clothes him ,,th an
""h0rtY 'oh'ch washington at the heig&t of his
popularity nerer enjoyed and secures 40 effective
unity OF military administration for which Mari
borough sighed in vain.
The extraordinary confidence reposed ia General
Mcclellan, ana the summary powers of military
appointment q
Provost-Marshal in Washington, with which he has
been armed. testify to sense of the values of
subordination. But a still more striking. and even
comlcai Illustration OF the same prevailing senti-
ment, Is to DC found in the language held by one of
our New York contemporaries This journal with
a morbid craving for dishOnor," never paralleled
by the French press in its most servile days in
vokes the suppression, by authority, of Giscour-
aging intelligence from the seat of war. 1t speaks
IN a vein OF sublime peuisence of the Hunbridled
Hcence OF our Northern Press, free from the whole
some censorship which keeps that at the South in
due subordination to authOrity.'' We trust this
Confession will not fail into the hands of Count
Persigpy, or he will strengthen his apology for n
licensing system with a more modern authority
than the acts of our Hanoverian Kings
How long will this fit Of self restraint last >
VIII the Uni0nists OF the North submit awhile at
the outset of the war, to Mr., Lincoln as the Athe-
mans submitted to Pericles, ony to reapse into
their Old impatience of all individual ascendeucy.
Or shall we suppose that deep ard permanent
change has come over the spirit of American De-
m"cracy, as observed by De Tocqueville, and that
'he terrible advance Of universal equality Gin the
hiust ot the ruins which it has made has at
length met with a check? Are we TO recognize in
the present crisis one Of those grand cimoctarics
IN the history OF nations during which the current
n lille sometimes seems 20 shift its channel and to
flow more equally for the future?
Or, again, discardng all metaphors and argu-
ments from analogy, shall we Weld to the suspicon
that the time predicted by Lord Macaulav, when
the "Jetfersonian policy" should break down un-
road or,a-4aI ; 80 eS' "uG uIscohtenI' mas al
y 80 80 '%N A.ie' lea anu iharrea the great
pI,9 - "n.o' s"o was conducting otlore the
odn,t u 90; o"n gA'., we are hot disposed TO
atp 'nT n"s. tS ""k VI 'neSe hEpotheses; Ihe
J VI ''on,s !" AI"s'lo" iiHS h'therto olscon-
certed, not vague cnniec only, but sober calcu-
.@.on' 20 one tRouShE mat the North was IN
earnest about going to war, but they soon pledged
ives C'U "TePF 70 retract and the servle In
:u ec'l"n' "nlcn was 10 oFeaK out upon the hrst
,Hs"s'on r .. oou,ht.A sou, mas never yet taken
-. nc P1' 'tl utsSTnS'ohS o' 'h@ Nof'h seemed
i;,I 49,. T"t m p,uVaply no man man Ia America Oe-
I NJ ".' anu II sPi"ilcdns "ouIu rally
tounI Hr hlhco'h 10 revenge the insults to ma
'i"h"i property
40 ~! '"s' d' 'ileHt u an" regular Warhke esti-
u'ICeS, 1t WAS against AL probability that pracu-
ch' ana cnmmerclai natlhn would ever endure them.
Every one OF these suppositons, and even the
onaoe presumpNnn that reyerS would wound
the American FaultT 70 the qn'ck, and raise c!amor
.o' o Venstancs LHF'uSnout me North, nave proved
10 De untounden. NArAed by this lesson we are
not rash enough TO- frame any hypothesis concern
LIZ Lhe errauc orolt oi q transatlantic volution.
w ''' II'u ''' VI 'ne imports aI New lnrK snow
ueP."'aoe Std'e oI cnnlhefce' nut we cannot pre-
=, Hu W say tnTL 'niS wa nave any ehect IN staying
'hG progress r' the "aF.
e. e near OF waste ana PecuIatlon IN The military
:" great Ihat each soldier costs the
y 9lleu Ntates n.ge 9 "'"cA az o"r o,o"' "t1 each
" c,I 600 oGn eve "S" ""rt; "' LoL4i expenditure
" ot ~ - leu, VI "tq"en' 'iphS, anu
v. "u|n ,'-'eI'uS ye'"eeu tie Two oFancnes ol me
at my nuC '"C 4"'!ca'tS al peace can scarcely
Ee' he'.L 'nG. anu Ju"g!hE OF the iuture DV the
present, II VIII not surprise u: II we hve TO near
ou' Co"eln' "'aSviIG tha. thRlr buGgeGs are tne
3 - .'' tn9I y N',''on1I eoC lne pSSesI
al" 'lle @ li"S' oi''u VI R'o"'h I'D o'ea'I"u'
u, nus HoS li. - " .I iCt U' M NoNIh'
al I@ls y I..e'Iu 10 say I'a' ou 10 one PolnG