The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-10-31

oNH spirit To OlueTSS anu 10 DelleVe III
you will nobly consumate, as you have bravely be-
gun, the great reforms which indispensable,
not merely to our own respectability a commu-
nifty, but to the preservation of the social fabric it.
self.
WIZ. WOODWARD, Chairman.
WILLIAM DEAN, J. HANSON THOMAS,
THOMAS j. COCHRAN CHARLES j. BAKER,
EDw. W. ROBINSON, A. C. ROBINSON,
Robert EARECKsoN, MICHAEL WARNER,
JAMES MUsGRAvE, JAMES HOOPER Jr.,
CHAs II. BRADFORD, ALEXANDER RUSSELL,
RICHARD FoNDER, WILLIAM SwINDELL,
JAMES p. THOMAS. EDWARD Moon,
Louis MULLER, JOSEPH II. RIEMAN,
GEO. WV. BRowN, ALLEN A. CHAPMAN.
CHARLES D. Kinks, Secretary.
We re-publish the above simply with the view
Of impressing anew upon the minds of our read
ers, the fact that Town-Meeting of the Citizens of
Baltimore is to be held this afternoon and that it
is the imperative duty of every friend of Reform to
be present on the occasion. 1t is no mere politi-
cal gathering at which their attendance is solicit
ted. 'AIen of every party are invited to be there
Not by the names of American or Democrat, or
any other party designation, are they called to
meet-but as ''citizens '-''native and adopted"
of ''every trade and profession" Not with
banners and transparencies amid the glare of
rockets, the clangor of brass bands and the roar
of cannon-but quietly, soberly, and in the light
of day, they requested to assembe-to
'reali2e their own great and overwhelming
"strength," and to manifest the noble patriot
'sm and profound enthusiasm which animates''
them. Not in procession are they expected to come
from the headquarters Of rufian clubs whose
character is best illustrated by their names and
with lanterns embazoned all over with the eviden-
ces Of shameless indecency and brutality-but from
their contingencies their stores, and their work.
shops No list of orators hired or imported from
abroad is advertised among the attractions of the
meeting-nor they asked to listen to candidates
seeking to promote their own election, and per-
fectly Indifferent as to the means whereby success
may be achieved. Citizens born and bred in their
midst, and having no interest in the coming cleo
ton, other or greater than their own will be
present to address them. Let the audience be
worthy of the occasion and the men. Among
those who are likely thus to speak, are author
lied TO name S. TrAcKLE WALLIS l. hewitt
STEELE, GEORGE WILLIAM Brown and WILLIAM S.
WATERS. Esqs., and CHARLES Fl. PITTS, Esq, if
his health should permit The occasion is one
which justiies aud demands great gathering of
the people to hear them. Let no man stay away
under false impression that his personal atten-
dance is matter of little consequence-that his
duty requires him only to vote on Wednesday, and
that any further manifestation of his sympathy
with the cause of Reform is wholly unneces-
sary. He is invited to assist not at an
exhibition of brute force, but at great moral
specacle-one which shall illustrate alike the
strength and the spirit of the Peope-their pow
er and their determination to maintain unimpaired
the rights which they possess by all means and at
every hazard. The presence, therefore, ofevery cti
WHO is animated by this spirit is of the greatest
moment, in order that the same spirit may be i'm
parted to others, who sympathising with the cause
of Reform, are yet doubtful of the ability of the
Reformers TO carry the day and overthrow the Or
ganized ruffanism which obstructs their access to
the polls. Abandoned by the authorities, and
thrown absolutely upon their own resources for
protection on the day of the Election, it is of the
greatest Importance that the Reformers should
both know and feel their strength. 1t is matter
which concerns equally voters in every portion of
the city and of every station and calling in life
Let them come, therefore, not from the shops and
houses merely which are contiguous to the
place of assembly, but from every ward and
from the remoest suburbs Let the working-casses
especially come-they whose material interes is
suffer most by the continuance of the present sys-
TEN of club-rule and whose honest votes the row.
dies are most anxious to exclude The hour ap-
pointed for the meeting is sufficiently late to admit
of their attendance without any serious loss of
time or trouble. 1t is but closing their shops and
putting aside their tools an hour earlier than
usual-a sacrifice which they have often made to
witness or take part in parade of soldiers or fire.
men-a Iuheral pageant OF an Odu feuows pro-
cession. 1t is the cause of Law and Order, and
of Free Suffrage--their own cause-that invites
their support and requires some manifestation of
their sympathy. A great popular demonstration
in the Square this afternoon, will be worth hun
dreds of votes on Wednesday-it will go far even
10 recall the authorities to a sense of their duty,
and the rowdes to a knowledge of their weakness.
1t is the most efficient step that can be taken to en-
sure fair and peaceful election, by admonishng
those who are conspirng against the Peoples
righls-of the Peoples strength, and the danger
of resistance aud retribution.