The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-10-08

We presume that Mr.. SWAMI is scarcely as well
satisfied with the endorsement he received on
Thursday evening, as he was with the fraudulent
majority of nineteen thousand over which he was
so jubilant year ago. As some of his friends
anticipated "such an assemblage' as never was
seen in the Square BEFORE and his own opinion of
his meritorious services must have led him to be-
lieve that all men would rise to do him honor, the
pitiful apology for town meeting must have
sorely disappointed him. Any other man would
have been by this time convinced that his admin
istration has not, perhaps, been satisfactory to
the people of Baltimore as he has heretofore ina
gined. But we cannot hope that it will ever oc-
cur to the present MAYOR to consider himself other
wise than infallible and immaculate. He will
probably, believe even unto the end that he is in
no way responsible for one solitary evil of which
we have complained, and that all those who have
ever found fault with him were actuated solely by
personal malice, or by n whimsical desire to break
down the City Government. As the meet ing hope
lessly failed to produce the slightest sensation or
effect upon the community at large, we did not
conceive that it called for any special notice at our
hands, but on reading for the second time the
speech delivered by Mr.. PRICE, we cannot forbear
abiding to its feeble and inconclusve character,
as being, of ITSELF strong evidence of the weak
ness of the cause he advocated. Mr.. PRICE COM
mands, and is entitled to high respect, and
we state this fact lest any should think other
wise from perusal of his remarks. That the
bloody affrays and most wanton murders, which
the press has recorded during the few past years,
were not merely imagined by the reporters, Mr..
PRICE of course knows; for he does not show one
single instance in which these occurrences were
fabricated or magnifed, but, on the contrary, he
announces, with what taste and propriety we
leave him to consider, that eff any miscellaneous
gentleman should come here disposed to get into
IA row, and should feel stray wish to get bullet
'tstruck through his head, he can be accommo-
Slated on very easy terms in Baltimore"
We presume he has also some knowl-
edge of the scenes which really transpired
at the polls at the last and previous elections,
for he cannot have failed to hear hundred times
some members of his own party mention and con-
denim them. He would hardly be willing to say
that be believes the Reform movement inaugurated
here by the Town-Meeting of September sth, to
be in object or intent, in fact or theory, "Vigi-
Glance Committee" that it has directly or
indirectly the semblancc of an organization which
designs to infringe existing laws, or to usurp
authority.
But in a crisis like this, when it must be
apparent to every one that nothing but the oppo-
sition of the Reform movement has prevented the
nomination throughout the city of scoundrels every
whit as bad as those who now claim, in some of
the wards, the suffrages of decent men, Mr. PRICE
has delivered this harangue, in which he treats
the movement as that of Vigilance Com
mittee, and apologies for crime because it
exists elsewhere, and passes over in silence the
outrages which trampled down the elective fran
chse. Although the wrongs which the Town
Meeting denounced as having made our condition
deplorable, were those principally which our
own citizens had suffered, Mr. PRICE
thought proper to confne himself to
the question whether a stranger could
come here and not be murdered. Though the
Reform Committee first sought out the MAYOR
and laid before him its just complaints and
moderate demands, Mr.. PRICE tries to throw upon
it the odium of having striven to take the law
into its own hands. He is jocose the facility
with which q man may get a 'bullet struck
Through his head, :" and facetious about the good
dinners to be had here, but sees nothing in the
existing condition of things to warrant a resort
to the extraordinary measures recommended at
the Town Meeting, that is to say, the appointment
of special policemen, and honest and faithful
judges. That he sees nothing to find much fault
with in the existing condition of things, is fact
sufficient to prevent the community from giving
IN his views that consideration which undar
other circumstances, they might be entitled to-