The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-06

community there is yet one more ..
address by Hon. Thomas Swami
Before the temporary interruption of negotiations
with the late proprietor of ''Druid HILL" there
were rumorS that the Park was TO be nthrown
''open'' to the public on the 18th of September,
and that a speech from his Honor the Mayor, in
the midst of music, and cannon, and waving
banners, and perhaps an exhibition of the Steam
Fire Department was to link the occasion in per-
pctual memory and honor with the battle of North
Point and the bombardment of Fort McHenry.
The intervening difficulties, now fortunately at an
end, having prevented this happy consummation,
it was generally feared by the admirers of our
worthy Chief Magistrate, that the oratorical
legacy which he was TO have bequeahed to us
had lapsed and was lost for ever. 1t now appears
that the Commissioners with a zeal which de-
serves appreciation, have resolved TO avert such
misfortune, and that as the Municipal election,
which is near at hand, is about to close the career
of his Honor-''no son of theirs succeedng''-
they have determined that lie shall have
an opportunity, on Monday, of waving
gracefully, once more, before his fellow citi-
zens, that Executive ARM which he has
behalf. "The people Of Baltimore are cordially
"invited to take part in the ceremonies which
means, of course, to listen-and all the tassocia-
'tions' Of the town, whether civil or military,
benevolent or ''literary," are requested Ito
''march to the grounds in procession" for the
same agreeable purpose. A year ago. such an
invitation would have made men close their win
L., H.. oil rf
1t would have assembled. around his Honor, ''as-
''sociationS' of Il somewhat more sympahzing
character, than those which are now likely to
hang upon these last words Of his. The esma-
BILE Red Necks, for whose sake he once wished, so
ferventy, that his commodious mansion were as
ample as his heart would have trooped to the
Hill Of Druids to recprocate his fraernal greet
ing. The Plugs and the Babes; the Blood Tubs
and the Regulators; the Little Fellows, the Tigers
and the Rip.Raps; would all have assured him
by their honorable presence and applause, that
he was 'not without the support and confidence
'of those whom it has been his greatest desire to
''serve.' But alas ! those halcyon days are
over The blight of "a legislative despotism
has fallen upon those cherished ornaments of his
constitutional sphere" Many of them are
seeking alar off, some spot where ''the free play
"of freemens spirits is still unchecked by the
halter, and they will only catch some fragments of
his eoquence in hungry exile Some of them have
already gone, and others must prepare TO follow,
upon drearer and darker journey They cannot
keep the holidays of his Honor as in other times, or
shout, as they were won't at the pleasant and oft
told story of his life aud miracles The legal imped
iments in their way are unhappy, for the present,
insumountahe. In such an untoward state of
things the Commissioners have done the best for his
Honor, in the way of company, that circumstances
will allow. We do not allude TO those ''associa-
"tOns" which are benevolent enough TO 90
Of their own free will, or '1itcrary' enough tc
enjoy the treat which will await them Neither
do we speak Of the Military, the Masons or the
Odd Felows-for our neighbors of the Sun have in
timated that these have scented partisan trick
and an elec,ioneerng humbug in the hurried fes-
tival, and will not allow themselves to be caoleG
into clarifying what they do not think ought te
be gIorifed. We cannot, of course, vonch fol
this, inasmuch as the SIN is in temporary ECLIPSE
over Druid HILL and its light perhaps may be 9Th,
light that leads astray." We mean only TO com
mend the good taste and sense of propriety of the
Commissioners in surrounding Mr.. SWAMI with
the children from the public Schools who are tc
sing an code, as the programme tells US, when
his Honor's farewell "address" is over This
Ode we understand, he's been composed by the
Poet Laureate Of the getty Government" with
special reference 10 the occasion, and after the
classic manner Of the CdTmen Seculdre, is to be
b,ro oh
ens-calling on CERES and DIANA to watch over
Druid Hill until Park police can be lawfully APP
pointed, and implorng JUPITER and PHGBUs tc
unite in supplying the place of Mr.. SWAMI in
the new City Hall--when it is built. The
beautiful appropriateness of this, we presume
no one will gainsay. 1t will not only give tn,
little folks holiday, and afford them an example
in composition which will be worth n course O
rhetoric in the ordinary way-but it will lend ,
moral significance to the whole of the pageant
Hitherto, his Honor has only appeared before hi
lieges, in his official harness and on his own mu
nicpal neutrality-suspicious., controversial and de
liant. Now, for the first time, he meets them, il
''the woods and wilds and melancholy groves. ,
His talk is now no longer of Hmy administration
or "ths office" The pastoral reed is in his hand
and he comes forth to speak to u.s. of turf ant
forest and green glades and dingles The gras
which was growing in our deserted streets, whel
he first rescued us from manicipal humiliation i
his topic no more. 1t has given way to 9Th,
glory in the grass and splendor in tn
Hover round about "Sugar-loaf Hill"
Doubtless his Honor will be equal to all the poetry
OF the occasion Figures of speech will come II
him, we doubt not, more graceful, and, it may be
not less real, than the cunning figures of hi
last financial statement. Doubtless the parb anG
pipe of CoRYDoN or MELIBGUs will become hun
quite as jaunty as the star and rattle of his erce
days. But yet-thongh custom cannot stale
his infinite variety in eyerything that takes tn,
shape of an address, " the effect of the who'll
must be prodigiousy enhanced by surrounding
him with the candor and innocence of youth. L
will give gushing freshness to the ceremonies, u
which otherwise they might not have The deer
echoes of the address will be ten-foId more mu
steal amid the gentler breathngs of the code. y
In such presence, and with such surroundings,
not even the most hardened BIPARTISAN could
suspect his Honor or the Commissioners of hav-
ing harbored political thought In connection
WIN the Park inauguration. Every one Will see
at once the unsophisticated character of the pro-
ceeding, and the absolute impossibility of il:
being meant to assist in canonizing Mr. SWAMI, or
sanctifying the "American Party" or electine
Mr.. HINDEs. Those who may have entertained
the false impression that the celebration nigh
have been postponed for week; that it ought no
to have been gotten up on the eve of the election
that the tsaddressp of Mr. SwANN WAC not an Oh
solute necessity, he having been occasionally
heard before; will be at once convinced, by thu
Ode and the School Children, of the injustice anG
absurdity of such objections. For ourselves, O
course, no such conclusive arguments were neces
sary. 1t is true that Mr. SwANN-standine
upon the lofty platform which he has haG
erected on a favorite site at Druid Hill
with the City, of which he has SO long beer
the Government" lying in beauty at his feet
seeing, afar off the smoke of the locomotives. OF
the railroads which he has constructed-perbap
tracing in the distance the line of the water
works., of which he is at once the lake and tb
Notwithstanding the graceful proportions of tn
new Jail cupola and battlements, which he ha
builded for his people--or filing up the panoram
X with architectural visions of the Washington
Monument, the Peabody Institute, tie City Hall
the McDonogh Institute, the Almsbouse, an,
other magnificent edifces, constructed or to b
constructed, of which he is or is 10 be the fathe
and founder-may well feel his heart expand wit
Il into ~.