The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-29
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WHATBOSTON SA YSABOUT BAL TINORE
The REIGN OF TERROR IN BALTTIMoRE.-In steady
thorough-going contempt for law, Baltimore stands
without rival. In other cities the vicious and
reckless sometimes makes spasmodic efforts to throw
off the control of the public authorities but every
where, except in Baltimore, the reign of disorder
is generally short, and the enemies of order are
forced for the most part to content themselves
with less fragrant violations of the law New York
has reputation for which we have no occasion to
envy her, but even there the offences which we
most frequently notice seldom rise to the charac-
ter of an organized crusade against social order
Philadelphia is sometimes compelled to witness
fremens riot, and never has any lack o f crime In
Baltimore, however, more than anywhere else
violence is open and undsgused; wrong doors bold
and confident in their confederated strength; au-
thorities supine; and peaceful, order-loving citi-
zens for such, of course, there are even there
indifferent or inefficient. .s.H.
1t is not little curious to observe, that most of
the disgraceful which occur in Baltimore
have their origin in political matters and this per-
haps is the only rational explanation which can be
given, for the indifference with which the orderly
portion of the community see the good name of
their city destroyed, and life and property constant
ly endangered The primary meetings for nomi-
mating candidates favorte occasions with the
rufiians who keep the city in terror Baltimore
enjoys the services of justices of the peace con-
stables, and officers of higher grades whose fitness
for office has been successfully maintained BY their
friends in the at the point of the bowie
knife Only last week, at the close of the polls at
caucus for nominating justice of the peace, a
general hight took place, and one man was badly
beaten. 1t is interesting to know that he was
promptly arrested by the police and taken to the
station-house, there to ruminate with his broken
head upon the hardships and difficulties of poitica
life. .. ..e r. f..s ... ... FL
The organized associations, which figure so large
ly under various uncouth names in all public dis
turbances in Baltimore, are political clubs, who
seem by their INSCRIPTIONS services to have purt
chased the silence of their respectable allies
or else to have attained place where their friend
ship Is too valuable or their enmity too dangerous
to be risked or encountered by any opposition to
their msdeeds. These bands of ruffians rule the
primary meetings of the respective parties, and
form chief reliance on both sides at the public
elections. In their savage contests, life has no
| sacredness nor has law any terrors. They do not
fear to parade the streets in triumph when success
full, to burn and destroy property, to stab and
shoot those whom they encounter, as openly and
fearlessly though they were the lords of the city,
And why should they not do so? They are its
lords-free, absolute, and uncontrolled in their
sovereignty. .t..- 81. f.. .., ..
tits this political element of which we speak that
has undoubtedly done the most towards securing
impunity for the lawless men who compose these
associations Public officers apparently do not
like to bring to justice che men to whom they owe
| the enjoyment of office; and in case of murder
which has occurred this very week, there is the
strongest evidence to show that the criminal would
have been sent to the pententiary months ago for
another offence, but for his political relations with
the prosecuting officer Office itself seems likely
to become sort of sanctuary, in which rogues
may take refuge when hard pressed. To refer
again to which the present week brings up
the nominee for police magistrate, in one of the
wards in Baltimore, is a man who was a chief
actor in the terrible election riots in Washington in
June, 1857, and who, although not punished for
his offences on that occasion, has acquired an un-
pleasant familiarity with police practice both in
Baltimore and in Washington.
Evils like these deepseated and hard to reach.
the timidity of class, the selfish interest of
other, and the indifference of third, all stand in
the way of any efectual remedy. The respectable
part of the population in Baltimore would be re-
luctant to admit that they really powerless land
that they cannot execute the laws or restrain the
disordery bands which now parade the streets in
triumph. If, however, they in fact able to re-
store order, what shall be said to their response
bilty for the present state of things. The present
reign of terror is not the work of day or year.
1t has continued for many years, and whatever oc-
cas'on there may be for the energetic action of good
citizens has long existed and has existed only to be
neglected All this may be matter of Indifference
to the people of Baltimore; they may be content
with this state of subsection to lawless mob; but
not indifferent to the inhabitants of other cities
who see this example everywhere inviting the law
less to assert their strength, nor to the country at
large, which feels its reputation affected by the oc
currence of such scenes under institutions which IL
is seeking to make orderly as we'll as free.
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