The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-18

of the day before when he inadvertently admitte
these parties to bail, in the insufficient sun
Of $500, and took JOIN ENGLISH as one of thei
sureties.
On the morning of Thursday last-when tn
cheek of every decent man in this community wa
red with shame for the infamous mockery of tn
dav before-The BaLtim0re american discussed tn
'election" in two separate editorials. In one
which appeared on its first page, as a sort of in
PRODUCTION TO what it called ''the returns"
announced the reelection of MAYOR SWAMI, "a
was expected and the defeat of the Independent
nomnaton-characterizin the latter as "a weak
'foolish movement" which had ''an appropriate
tly impotcnt ending" 1t added, that
"The day passed off without any serious rioting
though there disorder displayed in the vicinity
of the polls, and drunken and boys by far
numerous everywhere"
With this single observation and an admission
that 'it would be folly TO ASSERT that 'the cleo
t'tion was conducted on those principles of RICH
"and justice for which the Wing Party vainly
struggled, for so many years." The America,
ended its comment on the abominable outrages
every sickening detail of which was then known
TO it as amply and as thoroughly as now.
The other article which led the customary edi
torial column of Thursdays american, was headed
"THE ELECTION IS OVER" 1t was a gentle and
fatherly appeal, OVERLOOKING with the blessed spir
which should make brethren dwell together il
unity. 1t sounded like the lessons which good
men gave their children, in the old apologues-oi
like II proclamation of good will, from the En-.
peror TO his subjects, after day of suppressed
revolution and captured barricades in Vienna
Everybody, it informed u.s. would rejoice that the
election and its exciements were at an end
Election days are sad evils, it said-though I'M
happily necessary-and when they are over, dis
cussion and rancor, animosity and opposition
should cease.
while the successful party should take it cooy and
phllosophically without INDUCING in any unseemly or
irritating demonstrations of triumph those who are de-
feated should take it quietly if cnntentedly There
Is no use in keeping up the excitement after the affair
whining over defeat as the elimination of Injustice
''Let the defeated candidates." it continued
-"return to their daily occupations nor NEGLECT their
business for the purpose of demonstrating why they ought
70 nave been elected and lamentng the unhappy fate
OF the people that have failed select them as their
rulers The question as to what hand the government of
our city shall be cOnded practically settled for tbe
next two years and those who really have the interests
OF our city ut heart should unite in giving it cord
support Instead of ituperating and seeking to drive
our municipal administration false positions for the
Interior political capital which possibly NAV be made
thereby its political opponents should lay aside not only
bitterness and malignity, but Orego some honest
Preudces and sincere convictions, and unite with the
lovers OF good order in promoting harmony kind
ing among all classes and celebrating the traces preu-
Ce anu passion winch exist The asperities and antag-
onsms of party should be forgotten and all should Join
their influence in promoting and good Order Sc
curing prompt and thorough administration the laws
and in advancing the moral and material interests of our
good city until the ISLANDERS which have been heaped up
against her mountains high shall disappear like the morn
ing mist before the rising sun, and the rancorous
maigny here elsewhere shall for very shame cease
to pen the maligning paragraph"
But this was not all. The defeated candidates
and their friends-who had been kicked and
cuhed, insulted, wounded, disfranchsed, spit upon
were not only requested and advised to 90 home
and attend quietly to their business till the sue
ceeding anniversary should enable them again TO
enjoy these inestimable privileges of freemen, but
they We're told that they must do something
more-that it was their duty besides, as GOOD
citizens, to comfort and sustain the rulers to
whom and to whose friends they were indebted for
so many considerable attentions 'sThe gentle
men" said The -1alerical-
to whom the city government has been confded bv the
MAJ oil te people will no doubt perform their duty we'll
There is why they should be animated bv any
oer ont honest and public spirited motives every
reason why all our citizens should accord them their good
Will ana confidence in their positions"
Let then the Millennium come in
Let good feeling and harmony therefore prevail LET
poucal discussions and auimosities buried out of
ssht let every man attend diligently his own affairs
anu IN their advancement and the performance of the du
es oil good citizen he will better subserve the true
th oil our city than by any political discussions
and Viz of Pr,l,a
Such-and for the most part in its own words-was
all that The Baltimore American-the oldest of
our journals and claiming to be ''alone free and
un'rammeed' among them had to say. on
1hufsday, concerning the blacklist and most
shameful record of official delinquency and private
ana pubic wrong that ever sulled the annals of
an American city.
From Monday to Saturday were two DAYS and
although IN that period of time great changes will
occasionally take place in human affairs greater
LAS rarely oeen witnessed, or sorrier, than that
WHICH 4 re american of Saturday disclosed to its
uis9usted readers. In reply to a communication
otu"l OF nc'lhous, itmaters not which, but signed
AN oiu wing" and enquiring in mild and
supoueo manner, why The american had not
deemed the occurrences of Wednesday worthy of
comment-that Journal deyotes more than a. COL
- I'm " 'N0 investigation Of its own ''position.'
oo' ''''1 GNU space are too valuable, and we have
100 much regard for the patience of our readers to
pursue our contemporary through all the naInable
and unmanly subterfuges by which If endoavors on
the one hand to recover its consstencv and ros,oo+
aolhty anu 10 escape on the other the inst ;ndiona
uon, winch 1t has at last begun visby to feel that
us unworthy course has provoked from the nphl;c
The article is full of the customary voda1a oho,,t
The Americans responsibilities u &c ond oho,t
'defaming" the city, and injuring its sbusipess
interests '--aoroad-as if its authors wore pnob,a
to comprehend, and were utterly at loss 10
conceive, how free men can suppose their norsono1
rights and political privileges to he nort oe to;r
''business can be willing to male a. ;.,no
about any thing but what is bouqbt and so1d
But on this and what it suggests we cannot dvo1,
The editorial inquestion then leads ne IN snh,.ooo
TO the asserted facts, that The 41aer;eon o,,ar5od
IN independent organization as impracticable-tba
he American party ''had been driven 70 dasrora-
ion, and were determined to triumph. that for
ear of the nomination and election of a worse man
fhe american publicly appealed to Mayor Sw.sy
o withdraw his decination, and that we are
indebted to it, for the BLESSINGS which
rs denomination and reelection have sacnrod 70
his community. The american had "some conf.
ence," it asserts, that Mayor SWAMI Gin view Of
is personal interest in the matter, "a very sniff
ent reason truly, and indicating just and wise
ppreciation of honorable motive-would look sto
lie perfection of his police arrangements for the
ection. In the degree of this Perfection how
er 1t admits that it was somewhat disappointed.
we were" it says,
On me eve OF the election assured that orders had baen
OF he most comprehensive character to insnre fii
a:equate protection, regret to saw that we could
mat any attempt made by the no,ica b
y. them In short it must be evident To eyerv 80
az NY ponce organization lacks dscipline ana
- Shich alone can make it elective and damanS
o mayor Swann the most thorough reoroanizaton %
II then comments, with virtuous ;rdicn..;o
pon tne use of the ''chequersd paper, for ~
lckets OF Mr.. swANNs supporters, which if actnan,
las the hardihood to denounce,
-as eminently improper and practically violation .,