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

We gave readers, last week, the benefit and
consolation of knowing what the Press of Phila-
delphia had to say in regard to the character and
qualifications of the public officers and candidates
for Office in that devoted city. 1t seems however,
that Philadelphia is altogether behind hand in the
'modern Improvements if there be any founda-
ton for what the New York Herald of Monday
tells u.s. about the rulers of Manhattan The Her.
aid, though very virtuous-like some of our own
neighbors of the same school of morality-n regard
to the unlawfulness of the late nhuman outrage at
the Quarantine ground, is doing all that it can, to
get up sympathy for the rioters, by dwelling on
the usual theme, in such cases-he ''provocation"
1t insists that, by the outrageous neglect of duty
on the part of the Quarantine officers the health Of
the whole neighborhood was put in imminent and
deadly peril and that the citizens had no recourse
but to take into their own hands the only, though
violent, remedy to which they resorted. 1t then
proceeds to generaze, after its characteristic
ashton, thus:
at would be wrong however suppose that these au-
thorities who it is stated, made spot pur
suit of gain of the lives of those around them and of the
great city constitute an execution
to the average rule of State officials in New York They
the contrary, than their neghbors
the humblest officers employed in this city the highest
magistrates of the Sate all tainted their origin
and carry the faint to the extreme limit of their official
Creatures of assemblies which ruled Differed
and managed by the of the popuace-the exes of
San Francisco the pckpockets rowes prize fighters and
vagabonds of New Yorthe elected of the PEG
pie in the State of New York carry with them throughout
their official their official cradle and re
fleet in all their official vices and the depravtes
of the men who created them. They nothing to the
honest men, the intellig to the men of
property in the State and they consistently ignore power
ty virtue and property. They all rowdes thieves
and rogues and they faithfully repay the debt rowdy
ism, theft and roguery"
If 1.-THE of this be true we have certainly rea-
son to be very thankful for the mercy which has
cast our own lines in the pheasant places" where
Mayor SWAMI arrests, Mr.. WHITNEY prosecutes, and
Judge STUMP-releases on bail But, making all due
allowance for the peculiar rhetoric in which the Her.
dtdcommony reioices-the browning and barbarous
disgrace ofthe Staten Island Instructions the DELHI
crate and open way in which it was planned and
executed; the perfect impunity with which it pro-
ceeded for two nights and day, in view of one
of the most populous cities of the world, whose
large police is kept on foot at an extravagant
expense-all demonstrate that there must be-
among the constituted authorities of New York,
either utter ineiciency, or utter faithlessness-or
both. That such state of things is but the natu-
raj result of the causes which the Herald enumer-
ates, no intelligent man can fail to see. That
these causes exist, not only in New York hut
here and in all the larger cities of the UNION it is
folly to deny. That they will force their conse-
quences upon us, is as inevitable as the operation
of any other natural cause. Shall we not take
warning, here in Baltimore, before the worst of
the evil days shall come? To ourselves, we con-
TESS the conclusion and the necessity are so papa-
BILE, that to discuss them seems like arguing an
axiom in mathematics. The failure to meet such
issues at the threshold, has been the first step all
history tells us, in the process by which patriots
have been compelled, with sorrow, to surrender
a republican government, rather than have no
government at all.