The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-24

upon Mr.. SWAMI have been connected, directly or
indirectly, with the political principles of which
he supposes himself TO be the embodiment or the
party which elected him to office. On the con-
trary, we have taken especial pains to separate the
public servant from the political representative.
We have chosen to regard Mr.. SWAMI as public
officer, sworn to discharge public duties, upon the
faithful performance of which depend our lives
and property, and the lives and property Of
whole community. We have held him to account
for his delinquencies, as MAYOR, and not for what
we may believe to he his errors and follies as a
politician. We have not cared whether he was
selected to ''rule America" by this party or by
that-we have only endeavored to hold him to the
duty of ruling this portion of it, well. 1t is
true that we have from time to time, spoken
of his official arrogance and contempt of
proper circumstances, as we thought it de-
served. We have regarded the ''insolence of
office" as of the tenets of party, and as not
to be borne by free men, even if it were. 1t is
alike true that we have gone further, and have
even taken the liberty to laugh now and then, at
the personal demonstrations which Mr. SWAMI has
seen fit to mingle, with the acknowledgements of
his responsibility to the public We have done so,
simply because we regarded that, as the proper
mode of treating them. They were too offensive
to be passed over, and yet were not important
enough to be treated seriously. For ridiculous
things, there is no remedy but ridicule We have
had no desire or design to make the MAYOR of the
city mark for public dersion, but we have been
unwilling that he should escape, so far as we were
concerned the proper responsibility for those dis
plays of his personal peculiarities and assumption,
which have embarrassed the discharge of his public
duties, and shown his want of a proper sense of
what becomes public servant, in his relations
with the people whom he serves.
So far and no further has our 'persecuton'' gone
We deny and repel the charge that in the part which
we have taken, in exposing the mal-administration
of Mr.. SWAMI, we have been led away by ''uncon-
trollable prejudice or "vindctive party rancor,"
Against the MAYOR personally we have no feeling
whatever, and we have looked upon his conduct
solely in the light ofits own demonstrable dement's
1t has been bad enough of itself without the need of
party complications, of any sort, to make any man
believe it worse. If we could persuade ourselves
that the murder which has grown red and riotous
IN the public streets, during his official term, was
party principle then we should denounce his party,
with him. If we could persuade ourselves that
the utter decentralization of large classes of the
community, which his delinquencies have foste.cd,
was party tenet, then we should cry aloud
against the party as against its exponent But be-
lieving that the good men of his own party sickcn
over such things as sadly as the good men who
are not partisans at all, and that they would fain
see an end put to them, with his dynasty, if they
could control the elements which they have unhap-
PLY let loose we will not hold them to the respon-
sibility which Mr.. SWAIN only can answer. And
1t is thus that we deny, upon part the unbound
ed charge which we have copied from his speech,
and refuse to let him throw upon his party the sin
and the shame which are his.