The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-01
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Our readers may, perhaps, not be aware tina
The american has, of late addicted ITSELF some
what TO the ''ibellous' practices formerly ascrbeG
by it to THE EXCHANGE and has begun to assert,
with considerable cs, that it is impracticable to
find good Getty Government" or satisfactory
civil and judicial servants, in any of the existing
party organizations, or, indeed, among men who
have been politicians of any sort, or aspire
or desire to be such. Its proclamationS of this
alarming doctrine within the last few weeks, have
been repeated and quite vociferous, and theadmnis-
traitors of The Patriot have most admirably awaited
themselves of the opportunity, to avenge their pri-
vate griefs, under color of dcnouncing a heresy.
In an editorial article, on Saturday, entitled "The
''Ishmaelites' beginning with bitter allusion to
HAGAR and the desert, and ending with an externi-
mating apologize concerning Mrs. PARTINGToY and
the Atlantic Ocean-they visited the American
with all the walls of their wrath. They charged
its editors with Giving in tents, like their fathers,
and then with going and 'sitting, like lost chill
''dren, in the market place., /" instead we suppose
of proceeding to the police stations at once, as all
lost children should do. They accused those grave
and responsible citizens of being Flittle birds, +"
likewise, and of ''chirping and twitterng and
''carping and chattering," and also of "whet-
cling their little beaks againstthe tree in which
"they have built their nest" Nay more
they ventured to ascribe to our neighbors
the abominable habit of ''picking open sores,
with their '1ittle beaks' and then "delightedlv
rubbing their hands and jeering and laughing, -
like birds OF the worst possiblcmoral character and
principles, to say nothing of unusual and perverse
corporal construction and conveniencies. To
crown the whole, they deliberately proclaimed it.,
as an uAdeniable TRUTH that the rreproachable and
excellent gentlemen in question, whose modesty
and charity are proverbial, are in the daily
practice-'birds as they are-of Glowing
"a trumpet in the streets, when they
make public aims of 0auperaTy exhorta-
ton p We confess that in spite of little
passage of arms, now and then, with our
neighbors, we had never supposed them capable of
such an enormity as the last mentioned offence
the gravity of which cannot be over-rated if it can
De understood. We trust that they will vindicate
themselves from the charge. In fact we have no
doubt that they will. But it will tax their best
Abilities for they are face to face with an opponent
''O - O''A'"oin II iudlCu LOT lnein. We indeed
remember rarely TO have seen such force of scrip
tnral auslon and phraseology as is arrayed against
them In the article in question Since the labors of
Rather Toni we are not aware of having come
in contact with a production, so evidently pro-
eeedlng from great theologinall," thoroughly
schooled in that most attractive department OF
Tristan virtue and good fellowship-polemical
religion. Still, We repeat, we prophesy for
our neighbor a safe deliverance. On the points OF
principle involved, it must take care of itself; but
we are ready and willing to testify, as matters Of
fact, that, to our own knowledge, its editors dc
not live in tents but in comfortable nests" OF
brick and mortar, where they enjoy their we'll
earned comforts. We are prepared to depose, that,
instead of being but children, I" they rather in.
cline to what is vulgarly called the old fogy,
than otherwise Whether they are ain the mar
+" ket," we cannot say, having no personal know
edge on the point. We have often heard then
alluded to as birds, but never as 'slittle brds' Or
the contrary, so far as we know, whenever con.
sldered ornithologically, they universally elias.
sifed with those noble domestic fowls to which
Rome was indebted for the deliverance o.
its Capitol 1t they need our testimony on these
points, we will with cheerfulness give it, in pursu-
ance ofour unaterabe rule, TO be just even to those
who despitefully use u.s.