The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-11-04

whicn now openly proclaimed It's determination
to re-elect the candidate of its choice Mr.. SWAMI
to the office which he had already filed, dshon--
ored and abused. With the State and City au-
thorites in equal completely with the rufiians and
outlaws, to whom both owed their elevation any
hope of protection from either was entirely out of
question. Some few credulous individuals. il is
true, may have INDUCED the hope that Mr..
SWAMI being himself candidate, would
be stimulated by considerations of personal honor
to every necessary exertion TO preserve thapurity
of the election, and insure freedom of access TO
the polls to every qualified voter. They had in
fact, his own assurance that he only coveted re-
election as "vindication' and an 90 7rse-
ment, and that of his organ, to the effect that
triumph stained by violence and fraud was not
the sort of ''vindication'' and Endorsement
which he desired. But whatever the homes of
some and the apprehensions of others may have
been, the actual result of the ''election" must
have utterly COMPOUNDED the expectations and an
ticipations OF all, except those who were secretly
engaged in that conspiracy against the Rights of
the People, which triumphed in the almost absolute
disfranchisement of an entire population, and in
the nominal reelection of Mr. SWAMI to the
MAYoRALTY, by majority which had grown from
l554 in 1856, and 6, 52S in 1857, to 1919 on the
18th of o ctober, 1883
During all this time, crimes against person and
property had increased with rapdty and to an
extent that kept pace with the gradual and pro-
gressive Acknowledgement of people, whose polit-
ical, personal and civil rights seemed to have been
equally abandoned by the authorities entrusted
with their guardianship and keeping to the ten
der mercies of q brutal and lawless mob. For
it should be remembered and not forgotten-it is
the same organized rufianism which has taken
possession of the polls and of the workshops of
mechanics. 1t is the same red hand of violence
which has driven voters from the Hsllet-box and
whole classes of humble and industrious artizans
and laborers from the accustomed scenes of their
daily and useful toil-the negroes from the brick
yards-the caulkers from the ship-yards-and the
stevedores from the wharves. The same identical
clubs of lawless and abandoned men, who have
triumphed over the rights of citizens at Municipal
and State elections, are they that have signaized
themselves by the commission of every species of
violence and outrage, for which there is penalty
to be found upon the statutebook, and for the re-
ist, laws are enacted, and men set in office to
enforce them thus purchasing, in fact by their
services on one day in the year, indulgence and
immunity from the authorities, for the crimes which
they perpetrate on every other.
Under such circumstances, and in such crisis,
the gentlemen who constitute the CRY REFORM
ASSOCIATION have established their organization for
the peaceful but effective redress of grievances
which are the common burden and disgrace of all,
and the reproach of our whole community. They
have issued an Address, which we published yes
terday, which we republsh to-day, and in which
| they invite the cooperation of good men of all
parties, in work of REFORM the necessity of which
good men of all parties equally admit. In the
facts which we have rected, and the truth of which
no man IN this community will venture to dispute,
| the ASSOCIATION finds its justification before the
country for its present organization, and for any
future action, which, in the prosecution of
its lawful and patriotic designs, it may
be called upon to take. In the same facts burned
and branded by the experience of two years of
suffering and msrule, upon the hearts and minds
of the people of this city, the ASSOCIATION finds also
the guaranty its certain and triumphant success
1t has in its favor, on every side the sympathes OF
community which cannot but feel and know
that the cause of the ASSOCIATION is its own cause
and that of every man in it. Fortified by those
sympathes, and strong in the recttude of just
cause and an honest motive, and cheered and en-
couraged by the assurance and pledge of support
which will make it invincble in action, the Asso
CITATION can, therefore, boast strength greater
much greater even-than that which the number
influence and undoubted responsibility of its own
actual and present membership would of itself bt
sufficient to secure. The movement, we say once
more is a just one, and necessary one. Con
Quoted with that prudence and moderation, O
which the names of its officers and members vii
everywhere be accepted as guaranty and pledge
the ASSOCIATION will not fail to command thai
success to which its purposes entite it. and which
the prayers of this community and the sympathieG
of nation will earnestly bespeak for it.