The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-08


under the shallow preience of making his &C.
acknowledgements for the hospitable manner in which
he has cen everywhere received Judge DoEGLAs
has contrivtd TO make an electioneerinp tour
through the Eastern States Day after dav he has
appeared upon the hastings to defend his political
principles, and thereby advocate his claims to
The Presidency He has lost no opportunity Of
harangning the people upon the issues in which he
has so important and personal an interest, and we
may presume he will continue 10 labor with the
same aSsidnity until the end of the canvass TO Sc
cure the prize he has so long coveted. 1t might
nave been anticipated that Judge DOUGLAS would
pursue some such course for it has ever been his
habit TO demand and struggle for any posi-
ton he desired, rather than to wait until
the tardy action of his friends or the public
might tender him offices and honors. In the
present instance he has overstepped the limits
within which Presidential candidates have hereto.
lore thought it becoming TO con6ne themselves
and If he is successful he will have impaired the
ulghity OF the place he aspires to by the
means he has adopted to obtain it. The
personal intervention of the candidates in a DO
hncal canvass is, in any case an evil, though
perhaps necessary one. If the aspirapts TO
the less important Offices did not themselves
undertake to explain their views and publish their
qualifications they might not be able to find ner-
sons who took sufficient interest in the matter TO
relieve them of that duty. At all events, custom
has sanctioned the proprety of the course generally
followed by politicians, and as they are not
likely to depart from party usages it is there
useless n To tba;r
lie opinion has up to this time compelled the Presi-
dental nominees to stand almost altogether aloof
from the contest. The people have nstinctiyely
feit that if the candidate for that exalted station
Should appear upon the hastings, he would bring
down to lower level the popular respect for him
self and the Office They have been unwilling TO see
the Presidency acquired by the same mean acts and
disreputable practices that suffice to procure for
constable the object Of his ambition. They have
desired that there should be at least one nosition
In the country for which political hucksters dare
not bid. 1t is to be feared that we shall be per-
mitted to indulge such fancies but little while
longer Prominent politicians now claim the
Presidency as their due; national Conventions
can be packed like ward meetings, and candidates
for the office of Chief Magistrate of the Republic
take the stump in vindication of their right
to be promoted to that elevated place In
each and all of these particulars Mr.. DOUGLAS
and his sdherents have set deplorable example
70 the country, and if they in any way profit by
~ we may be sure it will be followed ever after,
Gnu ne pot-house politician and the Presidential
o''iuua'e will be seen henceforth conducting the
~ The same mode and spirit, and will
49, "'out equally the public respect. When
oonoS u pass, he will be indeed sanouine
pa'r'ot VINO can still look forward with anv degree
OF confidence to the ultimate welfare Of ,be conntrv
or the permanency of It's institutions '