The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-01
From the PHILADELPHIA Ledqer.1
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The merchants and business men of Baltimore
have called a town meeting to put down lawessness
ana restore order The merchants and business
men had better call upon the Mayor and police
OF Baltimore to resign. Il law and order are out
ragged by violence and msrule, it must be the fault
OF the local authorities, who are furnished with the
means OF enforcing order. All these movements
to aid the city authorities are delusiye in their
character. The city authorities who understand
their duties, and are disposed to perform them
faithfully. require no extraneous aid from the citi-
Zens to have the laws enforced. The lawIess in a
community are always few turbulent individuals
who have been encouraged to outrage by the i'm
punity which has attended their acts and this
impunity is extended by the administrators of the
laws, from some partisan consideration or other
usually some political service which the bully or
the rowdy can render desperate faction, that
wishes to retain a hold upon political power which
it knows it could not do under any fair system of
election, or by any other means than violence
and intimidation at the polls. The Mayor of n citv
with as strong police force as the Mayor of Balt
more has, should be always held responsible for the
peace of the city and if fails to suppress awless
ness and disorder, it is plain and palpable con
ession that he unfit for the post to which be has
been assigned, and that nothing but disorder will
reign while he presides its municipal head The
worst lawbreaker is in reality the Mayor
himself for, with the power to enforce power he
for some paltry reason opposed to the public inter
ests, permits the rowdy to rule. The lawlessness
he allows through his negligence or connivance is
just as much his own lawless acts as if he had
prompted the outrage against order There
fore, the business men of Baltimore should proceed
to act against their the chief rowdies
and having got rid of that incapable and politically
corrupt chief put some better qualified man in his
place, who will execute the laws impartially land act
alike against all offenders
From the Washington Star
BALTIMORE RUFFiANISM.-A few DAYS ago, an ell
| derby gentleman, a respected citizen of Washing.
ton, visited Baltimore on business and while there
undertook to take quiet walk down Holiday
street, and in doing so met gentleman whom he
had not seen for some years, with whom he enter
ed into conversation, and while thus engaged a
young man, possibly not over twenty-one years OF
aye, and whom he had never seen, stepped up to
him and accosted him with, 'FWhat are YOU over
here, you id old rascal?'' The old gentle
man. fixing his eyes the precious young villain
| replied, ''Sir, don't know who YOU are but ri
tell you what you are you are an mpudent Young
scoundrel, and If You say any more, I'll hand YOU
over to the police" The young rowdy, probably
not anticipating firm reply, was taken some.
what aback for moment, and in the meantime the
| gentleman and his friend moved off This incident
happening in midday of the principal thor
oughfares of Baltimore city, illustrates forcibv the
moral condition of the place, and accounts in some
measure for the falling off in the trade which Balt
more merchants complain of so bitterly; for what
stranger will visit town where he NAV not walk
Its streets in midday without being subjected tc
personal insult, and perhaps personal peril? Doubt
less if this gentleman had been alone, his reply tc
the fellow would have been followed by serious con
sequences to himself