The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-30
The following correspondence appeared in THE
American Of yesterday:
BALTIMORE, Aug. 81, 1859

American Of yesterday;
BALTIMORE, Aug q, 1859
NeSsrS DoJJin Dc Fulton, Editors Of The american:
GENTLEMEN The undersigned, regarding your call
for meeting of the citizens of Baltimore published
in the American of yesterday morning as forestang
and prejudicing a movement already inaugurated by a
number of business and other citizens having IN
view the same object believing also that the confidence
of the community will be given more heartily to the
spontaneous efforts of the business of the city ire
spective of party than t. an effort emanating from
respectfully request that you Will withdraw from
your present position in the matter and turn over to them
and their the business of further prosecuting
said call and Of making the preliminary arrangements
for said Town MEETING.
Their object in this request being to dvest utterly said
of party character and invoke the support of
all good with perfect to them that they
may act free from all party influence.
We desire to challenge the support OF every lover of his
city, order the ground that in doing he
is not assisting in eevating any political asprant or
litical organization.
We respectfully ask your co operation well that
of all the daily papers of city, being convinced that
there is not which is not most earnestly DESTROYS of
radical change in municipal government and the
establishment of peace and security in our midst.
HUGH DAvY EVANS r. B. PORTER,
DANIEL WAKEFIELD, h. TnoMsEN & Co.,
KIRKLAND, CHASE Co, YOUNG CARSON,
WIN CREIGHTON JAMES II. STONE,
CHARLES d. KINKS, JAMES HOOPER, JR.,
CHARLES FISDLAY, GEORGE W WARD,
JOSEPH H. SPENCER, u. p. HANSON,
WIN. I. WALTERS, II. &. SAuERwEIN,
HoDGEs Bros, CHARLES L. WETHERED
GEORGE II. BYRD, WIN. II. KEIGHLER,
DANIEL HOLIDAY, G. W. MILTENBERGER, NJ D.,
ALDRIDGE, HIGDoN & Co., HENRY TIFFANY Co.,
THOMAS GOODWIN, ANDREW ALDRIDGE,
B. L. GARDNER WIN. TURNBULL,
f. MURDOCH, WIN. +. MAYHEM, JR.,
B. s. LONEY, CLOSE Bro,
W. P. IDDINGs, ISCHAEFFER & LoNEY.
WIN. WOODWARD,
AMERICAN OFFICE,
BALTIMORE, Aug. 81, 1852
To MeSSrS ECanS, Warfeld, Stone, Crichton, Hooper
and others:
GENTLENEN:-In reply to your note bearing this date
laff The int pF
of your committee cheerully unite with you in the
general objects you have in view Our call for Town
Meeting decided on and prepared for publication
before of any action the part of our
felow-c citizens. Before the call published in the
Amer lean cheerully expressed our wish and earnest
desire that everything pertaining to the organization of
the meeting the choosing Of its officers, and the prepara
ton of series of resolutions for its action, SHOULD be
entrusted wholly to committee of citizens similar to
that you have organized We therefore repeat desire
to having nothing TO do with the control of the meeting
only wish being heretofore expressed in the col
of the mericdn that it should be general and
independent of the citizens of Baltimore free
from all political bias and disconnected from all party
purposes.
Recognizing your committee suitable organization
to represent the views OF all parties and classes we cheer
fully surrender the movement TO your guardianship;
pledgng best efforts journalists heartily coope
rate with you in an effort which ought to secure the aid
OF every good citizen. Very respectfully yours,
DoBBIN & FULTON.
Among the names appended to the first of these
letters we recognise those of men whose interests
are dependent upon the prosperity of our city.
They have heretofore belonged to different parties
and now offer to act together without regard to
party predictions, for the purpose of reestabsh-
ing among us the supremacy Of the laws, the pre-
servation of the peace, and the vindication of the
rights of all.
The whole community acknowledges the neces-
siy of some instant action to suppress evils which
have grown to be intolerable. 1t is idle to dis
guise the fact that neither political party as at
present organized, commands the confidence of the
people. Nothing be done for relief save
through the efforts of those who willing, for the
present hour, to forget party ties and political
prejudices and work honestly and manfully to-
gether for the common veal. A combination of the
decent and patriotic people of this city can sweep
away the political hacks and affiliated ruffians
who have so long plundered and disgraced it, and
install in the offices about to be vacated men whose
lives are rreF roachable whose characters are pure
andwhose integrity is above suspicion. A movement
honestly;made and honorably directed, as we have
every reason to believe is the case with the one
initiated by the merchants, must command the
overwhelming support of the vast majority of our
citizens, regardless Of the party feelings which
have heretofore influenced their action and NAV
guide them hereafter.
If at such time men weigh the paltry consid-
erations of party against the common good our
system is failure and our capacity for self-govern-
ment twain imagining" We know nothing of
the probable course to be pursued at the Town
Meeting, nor are we cognizaut of any plans to be
proposed, if any such have been considered or ma
tured. We must wait therefore, before we can adj
wise our readers determinatey of the likelihood of
the desired reformation being brought about by
those who have taken the good work in hand.
We can only express the sincere hope that in few
days we may be able to congratulate all good cit
liens upon the prospect of successful measures
being taken to insure IA freeand honest election
'the preservation Of peace and order upon election
''day-the protection of every legal voter-the Sc
''curity of challengers-the honesty ofjudges, and
''the nomination of respectable, trustworthy and
Independent men,