The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-11-01

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the city government sees fit to that right you
1ou would be persuaded under auspices that Won
are iiEe sheep IN drove, with Policemen for your
shepherds-that you have rights except those
which shall be conceded to you-as part of some off
cial programme-that there is nothing in the name
ana the hrthright Of American citizens, which gives
you the prerogave to stand up for yourselves in your
own manhood. But say TO you elow-ctzenS, that
it is fundamental principle of American and british
freedom that the powers which given to the officer
the law are given to him only the an6
guaranor the rights Of the citizen and fbat in eva
citizens person. when he stands freeman upon his
rights, the law is enshrned as in sanctuary and anv
other man. whether public officer private ruian who
lays violent hand on it, lays upon it the hand sacr
lese ana does 50 at his peril, what may. speak
not to you the language of pasonthe language of vio
the solemn significance of the law ought to be pro
nounced by its oraces when say you on the day
OF election when the Constitution and laws of your
country have clothed you with the right deposit your
ballots the Constitution and the laws have clothed YOU
likewise with the power to do all things that may be ne
ceSay iof e purpose OF securing to yourselves the
efcSe Of that right The right that has been given YOU to
vote is sacred and absolute the privilege of gather
ing the members of your family around your hearthstonp
or worshippng with them at the altar 1t is right which
the same law clothes you with the prerogave protect
ing aud maintaining by the exercise all the strength
that is in your and by all the cooperation with
which good citizens may unite to uphold and en-
force it, and any outlaw who stands between fbe
citizen and the ballot-boX, to strike down the
franchise which points the way to it, does so
! at his peril; for the law justifcs all reasonable
force which may be employed remove him (ApplauseD
say this not to excite passion for the subject rises
above passion, into the higher region patriotism and
rodJen down and the sacred nte han your SnIs
should hedge them around; you have been trifrd with
crs only ia nr6inct Won and II 10 ri%b - H. @
| should take this business into your own halds s.
There is no who does not know that he has never
does it himself Mayors and ShariTi and ~ IL
very we'll but we have fallen upon times when simple
American citizens better than the whole Of hem put
| together. tAppausel '' '''
have not voice or strength to speak you further upon
these questions to-day but far my voice can reach
beg of you that on the lav of the cou,ino nInro, Won
will feel it solemn obligation to shut your stores and Of
fees, and all the places OF your business and give up
profits of the day and its pleasures as n the DISCHARGE of
an imperative public duty Make it far once n S"5a1
of patriot s as on the Sabbath of reioion Won wonJ 90
to your places of worship convinced tbst on tbe ~
tenance of law and order and the yindcaon Of tba ~t
fundamental franchise of a free nnona rsst ot onr
lie prosperity tranquility but The holy narant es f
religion itself. Let have the enthusiasm of vou viii
ms on that dav. Ief us have tT ; ' VI yum @ WIN nun
strength Of matured men-Iet us have t erev hairs Lc
sober counses, the venerable presence Of age Let every
in the community come forth to the peacefu rescr
lend the reverend sanction Of their cOuntenanc for there
can be sacred offering than that which citizens
animated only by patriotism NAV 90 forward to law on
the altar of public duty. (Appause)
Whatever political preudices interests or Temporal
ry passions delusions may lead men astrav there is no
sane man who does not know that in civilized country
and in civilized age, the law must ultimately predomi
nate lawlessness be troden down at last Ii may
not come in hour but at hour other it must
come and blessed be hour it, in it. no man shall lifr
his hand against his brother if the g,eat moral force Of
united people shall peacefully crush down the WRONG and
outlawry shall stand helpless palsjed before it,
This Reform movement which igt and peaceful men
have undertaken and upheld; which so many good men
and true have rallied round and cling to-has stood
sOlemnly believe between outraged and insucd peo
pe and the evil counsels of their despair has walked
forth like Prophet of old into the midst of the nas
lence and has planted itself, were between the liv
ing and the dead. have advocated it from the begin
ming, chiefly because have regarded it great mea
of peaceas holding its the viaIs of balm
and not the vias of wrath. Take my word for it.
the greatest of English statesmen never said
truer thing than when he said that'Where law ends
tyranny beginsn And when sneak of tyranny in tis
connection speak not of that tyranny which is Surro,n
ded and made respectable by responsible mower nat
of tyranny in its most onpressive and vet mot stca
BILE form--the and most degrading that could he
brandsed over any people power welded the over
throw of everything thatiS good by men whose lives are
the concentration of everything that is bad When hear
it said that this against the American par
v call upou anv man who savs II to sfand ~, od sa
upon his responsibility, that the rufianism and
Siosce "ch nave trodueh down our laws INTO dust and
If he viii and il he lrnn ,nn tbat mt, ,o+;id H. ~
dust where the laws are II he viii NOT how s,r ,
declaration that war on crime is war pon his
party therefore on all and care not of what no.
Htica aitnities the may he pat their shoulders to
the wheel Of this movement
see gentlemen of the Whg partv al arpund me and
before me see upon this platform and ia this assem-
blage men who have been active i'm the cunnrIs oT tLa
American party and men who have been active in those
the Democratic rartv; but find them gathered as
unit on the great question which is superior to all partv
which lies the bottom all the institutions under
which We live. and cannot he surrendered unIass
would have the laws and the constitution
perish. There is, in spite of party defamation.
and denial and sophisry rirht and a vrona
in all hings-and as surely as there is Providence that
loves the right and hates the v-ron,, us 90 e,r ,S+
the good use triumph That it NAV inrnn soon is NV
earnest wish and I am sure it is Your wish: and can
only beg that on the d,v of the revf aro Won ,riII III
be bodily present te helm If on
there determined to assert yorr rights firmly and
peacefully and if Won be not left in neace dsterrniI m
assert them stfll' There is in this Reform moyanert
majority of the honest the peaceabe the bjing c
of all parties-there is an immense majority Let
its voice but he at the election which is unon rs
and there will end to the uiansm that melss us
If it assert its power it will bring back the public
least Of their discarded duty and will mt in the nIace
of Others whom it will drive out men capable and hon
est who will back tina laws to efficiency and honor
Come out, then, my fellow citizens on next Wednesday,
and when you have done your DUTY if Won do il CbfiI
and firmly, there will remain nothing part of any
man to add to it, except the shout of victory Immense
applause)
The president introdncad J,,rs ronors H.
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VINO spoke as lolloWs:
Fellow ctzeus:-Nearly two months ago we met in
this square to inaugurate the Reform Moycmept fleD
addressed YOU touching its necessity address vo now
with increased conviction of its iunortance w.s tha
Reformer from nrincinIe tn ~ ants that ba, trat
pired since then have made me- one frT
cessity, If l was then enlisted in the cause as
matter of temporarv evnedenrv am dorbI,, 60 ,or. ~
matter Of ahsointS nacassit, Sic % bt iJ 81 ~ nov as
had an election and although the result Was not sb
had expect for cause free from ndi
vidua interest and so entirely corsecrstnJ ~ t ,I
good vet when we consider the dificnItios ttro"S
which our cause has carved its way think we shonIJ
feel no discouragement but be ready on wednesday newt
to enter the with hope and confidence of
success.
do not know how towards this nura and
noble cause of Reform which is now aritstn, ~ ,i;
mind ! do not know how far your minds have ,ras,aI
the necessity of a radical change in the r
our local affairs neither do know how, far vonr shifts
have caught the nspiration or cause Which onneas 20
directIv to tbn co,s.r,.ati W , ;';i! " 'PpGds ."
and common sense of the peoIc Of Raitirori lt ~ %
of her citizens from early iovhnnd bonnd n a Inv, @ F
interest and by ties of blood with INV and tre
prospects blended with her destiny viii snn,l, f,r ,,
self if | cannot speak for Won va" 'i'"" ''' my
Believing this to be n most sis II, ta M
ltica history Baltimore with corruptons ard abuses
manifesng themselves in every nulsation o orr TbI,
administration with retropressiva tendency in neil
and politics with an evident gravatiop towards copdi-
tion of anarchy which is norhine Lose t,, tt iat ~
yusions of liberty wifi, di.solvntr avs If rror ~,
der club rue and Icars. .s rcGactaJ fr.r, a.
pages of bistorv These are No 80 ~ - -
drawn me from The quiet secuson oF nv, hps;nnsS 100
promped me to throw nv whole enerrss into tl;s as.
however f.ahln and n,itd ,bo,. ,na,, e.. S =; I:'
act from the same contron, ''g se F i , ~ "I,E 80
should experience if called unoT nv tI,( - s ~
to defend nv home and frrside from ba
of a foreign enemy
In considering the appalling bolnc with which opr
rights have been invaded and our netions s,nrnad |
our public servants: who bv tber own yoIiti ha I '
come our nublic masters the ,,nbc MID haca, I'll
dered and the r,uhc tonoue strucL, d,,mb a,d nI;d
with amazement
The heart Turns sick and Iaroria ,t s,,ob On .,o.
of mower and then becomes fred viii fr,,in - -
nation az the wronps and oItrages vIcb ,r ,oot;I
undrr il ~ '' P'"''S'N
We hold these Truths IN ba saIf e-ilort ,,,+ a.,
constituted authorities both mnnirino and i,cii Io
totally failed to answer the nnrnnsa for yvIcr - 80
established viz. 70 r,ainta;,i IL 5 ~ ~, "eIe
munitv 20 prevent fraud and violence IN ,r+nc Il i,i
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