The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-20
BALTIMORE.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 90. 1853.

A very respectable correspondent, who signs
,;,seIf "a FELLOW CITIZEN, u has favored us with
communication, in which he calls upon the con-
seryative people of the city to embody, in some
ORGANIZED and available shape, the indignant and
honest public opinion which has begun at last, to
seek lnequivocal and general expression among
Ms how much soever may differ from our
correspondent, in regard to the most suitable mode
of doing this we certainly entertain no doubt that
the present is, of all Others the most appropriate
moment for a combined and practical movement
on the part of the lovers of law, decency and
order. A conviction of the necessity for some re-
form-nay, even a deep-rooted and abiding dis
gust and Indignation at the official delinquency
which has brought us to our present humiliation
is far from being all that the occasion demands
from u.s. We must not only agree that change
is indispensable, but we must take steps to bring
it about We must not content ourselves with de-
nouncing what is evil-we must take means to set
up good in its place. No season can be more pro-
pitous for such efforts, or for the organization
which is necessary to render them successful than
the present hour, when the recollection of wrong,
the sense of shame, the common public know
ledge of official insult, fathlessness and out
rage, are all fresh and active in mems hearts and
minds Long before the consummation of misrue
which eliminated in the late election" aud over
and over, while that farce was in course of prepa-
ration, we appealed to our fellow-citizenS to unite
in some common movement, for the common pro-
lection and defence. Again and again we sug-
gested to them, that organization for purposes of
lawlessness, could only be successfully met by or
of Al hat
neither wisdom nor patriotism, nor even common
sense, in standing idle and apart, while outlaws
and ruiiians and their aiders and abettors were
gathering around them the resstless strength of
combination Much important time has been lost,
and much has therefore been left undone which
might have been done, for the protection of human
life and the security of public and private right
But there is still time enough left for much to be
done. There is present and future as well as a
past. The latter has been useful enough in what
it has taught us. Let us improve its lessons, and
put ourselves in the way of applying what we
have learned from them. Within the scope of the
law, there is ample verge for the combined effec-
tive action of resoute, intelligent and peaceful
men. Let them take it, wisely, prudently, law
fully and bravely, as to render impossible the re-
currence of such another Saturnalia of riot rapine
and assassination, as befoued our annals, and dis
graced our institutions, upon last election day.
1t can be done.
We may be permitted in this connection, 70 add |
word or two of comment, upon the characteristic
insinuation of one of our unworthy contempo-
raries yesterday, that we are of those who ode
'nounce and declaim against our social evils but
Suggest no remedy or correction" OF the truth
of this we must leave others to judge, but if it be
true have sadly Inexperienced our daily
editorial life and conversation. A reform in the
Police Department, offs somewhat more effective
nature than putting Mr.. SWAMI sat its head''
with IA rattle" and the Marshals on horseback
the expulsion of unworthy and disreputabe Off
GERS, the accompces of shoulder-hitters and MUIR
derers-the removal of worthless poice-magis-
trates, appointed by the MAYOR and permitted.
under his eyes, to let loose, every day, upon the
community the few offenders of mark whom |
his police arrest-the introduction of good and |
faithful men into the places of these delinquent and
prostituted public servants-these are some of |
the Corrections that we have been |
suggesting, day after day, for months, unless we
greatly mistake Nay, we are inclined to be-
1lCNc tliht We nave SOuc ldItlleF. We utVc Sug- |
gesed the choice of good 'City Government" to
''remedy' the delinquencies of bad one We
suggest now, the best correction of ALL
the resignation Of MAYOR who as The american
itself admits, owes his elevation to "disgraceful
''complicity" with violence and FRAUD and has in
no sense, with him, "the voice of the legal voters
"of Baltimore" If these reforms do not suffice to
remove the most of our 'social evils we shall be
compelled, we fear to add a few further sugges-
tons to the public concerning the responsible
ties'' of a press, which is the advocate and
mouth-piece Of every monstrous abuse that is
backed by patronage and power, and which is
never known to express an honest sentiment, or
speak a manly truth, except by way of apology
for something dishonest or unmanly, from which |
public reprobation compels it unwillingly to re-
treat