The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-19

ETpreSSiO ANUS, ercluSio est dHerius, is a maxim
which the learned and Honorable gentleman who
has lately received the nomination for Congress
in the Fourth Congressional district and the
learned gentleman who, very much against his
own wishes, and in Difference solely to the judgment
of his friends has allowed himself to be placed in
the same relation with respect to the office of
STATES ATTORNEY for the city of Baltimore will
understand For the benefit of those, however,
who are not learned like HENRY WINTER DAVIS or
Mutton WHITNEY, we may be permitted to explain
that it is a rule of law and logic, to the effect
that when one attempts definition, he is as much
bound by what it excludes as by what it takes
in. If we undertake to enumerate all the great
men of the country, the inference is not only le-
gitimate but irresistible, that we consider those
omitted as otherwise than great. If we assume
to point out from among long list of nominees,
the candidates whom we profess to think credit
able to the party nominating them there is a
pregnant inference that we do not believe those
credtable whom We do not mention; and when
the importance of an office has made the nominee
for that Office the first to be selected by his party
and, therefore, the first likely to be thought of
in considering the whole list, his exclusion from
among those spoken of with appreciation, becomes
more pregnant still. Whatever may have been
the difficulties in the way of Mr.. DAVIS nomina-
ton, about that of Mr.. WHITNEY there were none
at all. 1t is very well known that Mr. DAVIS
road was not without thorns. Serious divisions
existed in the ranks of the Congressional Conven-
ton. The "Tigers" and the Regulators were
by no means unanimous in his favor In the
course of the contest, those 'ardent Americans"
GREGORY BARRETT and JOHN ENGLISH, Esqrs both
leading members of the Convention took each
other by the throat. DAVID HoUCK and JOHN
SHANEY were confronted, in the Temperance Tenn
pie, by JOSEPH II. EDWARDS; and but for the per-
severance and pluck of the latter tried and trusy
friend, there is little doubt that Mr.. DAVIS would
never have had an opportunity of publishing a
synopsis of the speech in which he returned
thanks for the honor of his ''unbought nomina-
''tion." On the other hand, Mr.. WmTNEY's path
was strewn with roses. With a much larger
feld-for the whole city was represen-
ted in the Convention which nominated him
there was in it scarce a shadow of opposition.
Out of one hundred votes he was nominated by
seventy-four, on the first ballot 1t was the first
act of the political drama of the season. So
quietly, and orderly, and promptly, did that Con-
vention select Mr.. WHITNEY, that it seemed to be
called for no other purpose. Although Sheriff and
Clerk, and Judges of the Orphans Court, and
City Surveyor, were nominated at the same time,
none other but Judge KEMP was chosen at the
first ballot, and not one of all the nominees re-
ceived anything like the vote which endorsed Mr..
WHITNEY. In Short however much the 'Regu-
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"Plug-Uglies," and "Eubolts," and "Rip-Raps''
might differ about others, as to the fitness of
Mr.. WHITNEY they were unanimous, and the
gentleman to whom the people of Baltimore four
years ago confded the trust of representing the
State in the prosecution Of offenders, has the
proud satisfaction of knowing that in that
time he has so conducted himself that not one
outlaw in the whole Convention was found to
object to his reelection, or refuse him support
Now, in view of all the circumstances which
we have been at the pains thus to recapitulate, to
refresh the readers recollection, we confess we
were little astonished in reading portion of the
synopsis" published by Mr.. DAVIS some nine
days after the reporters had given his speech to
the world to correct their mistakes and misrepre-
sensations. But for that synopsis this article
would not have been written, because in the
Synopsis alone do the following remarks, or
any like them, appeas Says Mr. DAVIS ave
'have hitherto reformed what was evil, to the ex-
"tent Of our ability. Why not trust us further?
'Have some bad nominations been made? There
shave been more good ones. Some bad men who
F'surreptitousy got nominations, have been dis
'carded. Are rowdies masters of the American
'party? Then who nominated the present candi-
''date for Sheriff, or Judges of the Orphans
"Court or Clerk? are they bad men ~
We think we are not mistaken in supposing that
the office of STATES ATTORNEY at the present
time, is one that more deeply interests the people
of Baltimore than those referred to by Mr.. DAVIS;
and in view of the facts connected with his nomi-
nation, it cannot be denied that Mr. WHITNEY was
more unequivocally, deliberately and unanimous
ly the choice of the American Convention than
any other nominee of that Convention, or any
other nominee now before the people of Baltimore,
including Mr. DAVIS himself How, then, in a
most deliberate and careful resume of his own re-
marks, on most important occasion. and on a
point where he had nothing more than the entire
silence of the reporters to complain of-in enum-
Grating those whose nominations are reputable.
and adduced to show that the "American party
'fis not mastered by rowdies," does he exclude
Mr. WHITNEY?