The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-21

'This Gallo Town-Meeting, say it with all be
looming Difference, while it could not fail to bring
'dlscredit upon our city, could accomplish no
"more, in my opinion, than the quiet approaches,
Ito this office, of respectable citizens without the
"solernnty of a proclamation of our domestic
''evils to the many commercial rivals who are
'always eager to make capital at our expense"
The Town-Meeting, then, can accomplish no
'more'' than the humble solicitations of individual
citizens at ''this Office" might have done ~ say
'it"l!! Bow down, therefore-Oh ''mixed popua-
''tion'-before ''he high Office which hold -
and let your ''approaches'' be with less 'ssolem-
Unity" hereafter What business have you
"whose habits and pursuits have not brought
''you to examine gravely into the subjects with
(Which you undertake to deal'-what business
have you to interfere with the conduct of our
municipal affairs? And the thousands of you who
assembled together and couched in such
plain language your unfounded complaints,
are you not all misled by the misrepre-
sensations of the press, excited by vim
dictive feelings, and blinded by your foolish
prejudices? Away good people to your homes
and business!l! Attend primary meetings. and look
after the nominations and lean on "the Execu-
"tive' and CHS arm' for the restl-
Listen to ''my experience of "these elections. y,
and cease to discredit yourselves and disgrace
your city by publishing your own absurd views
upon the subject ''The people of this city will
"fnd that this whole subject is vet to be under
'stood"-why then do you presume TO speak
before you have been tutored in the truth? Had
md cT1aIf Co.,
suppliant attitude it might not have been denied
you-for 'the Executive of the city has right to
receive the approaches Of any class of our cit-
s'zens who may desire to communicate with him
Sin reference to any matter touching the public
''welfare." Why is it that you have overlooked
this inestimable 'trght'' of ''the Executive or
been presumptuous enough to suppose it was his
dMyP "Had the respectable gentlemen who
composed the meeting in the Square communi-
Seated with me, before the announcement of the
''call in the public papers, would have assured
s'them of my sympathy and cooperation in any
''effort they might desire, to arrive at fair and
'thonest expression of public sentiment in all the
'fwards where injustice had been done, or
twas expected TO be done to the legal voters"
These respectable gentlemen have chosen to
forget that 'quiet approaches to this Office" and
obeisance to its occupant the preliminary steps
towards obtaining "my sympathy and co-ope-
'raton"-or st all events, the assurances
thereof, which are quite as good as the things
themselves and the fault is theirs if thew have
failed to be ''assured" accordingly az know of
''nothing which should have caused distrust. in
''ths mode of treating the subject, on
'the part of citizens, who were DESTROYS
fof lending their aid and cooperation il correct
ting the grievances of which they complained
And this groundless distrust, so prevalent here,
can be tolerated no longer ''The Executive
"your city" has appointed no disreputable Judges
of Election, nor has he concealed or proied by the
frauds and atrocities which they permitted On
the contrary-elected by an unimpeachable ma
jority of nineteen thousand votes, he has con-
tinued to labor for your prosperity, and has nego-
'tiated and disbursed, for the benefit of your
people, more than twelve millions of capital"
TINS own, OF course Exclusive of that spent upon
tne new JAN! Whatexcuse then can be proffered for
the audacity which has ventured to approach fths
''ofice'' in the form of COMMITTEES from Town
Meeting? 1t may be true that the Declaration of
Rights asserts that every man hath right to pet-
ton the Legislature for the redress of grievances in
ga peaceabe and orderly Manner but there i M
warrant, there or elsewhere for any such intrusion
upon MAYOR who has been elevated to an ertra
constitutional sphereul
1t is thus that the MAYOR of Baltimore con-
descends to reprove and instruct his liege SUBJ