The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-13

more Markets for the past week, neatly printed
on letter sheet, may be obtained at our counting
room.
Having already congratulated our readers upon
the triumph of Wednesday, only one other duty
devolves upon US. As we have gained no barren
victory it becomes us now 10 sum up its results,
and consider its true significance. The issues
which were, upon that day, submitted to the peo-
pie, were, fortunately, so distinctly presented
that there is no room for doubt as to the mean
ing of the decision which has just been rem
dered The advocates of the Reform movement
have stated so explicitly the questions they wished
the community TO pass upon, that their opponents
cannot bubble about the true construction of the
verdict What has been affirmed and what de-
MED, by the popular VOTE we can therefore, with
out difficulty, determine. In the first place, the
people have repudated utterly the administration
which, as Mr.. SWAMI asserts, has earned for itself
their warmest gratitude. They have declared
their want Of confidence in the wondrous accounts
which he has so often given of our financial con-
dition. They have denied that they have hereto
fore received from the municipal government such
protection thar u4r4s9 rtAIoses WIFE winch the
MAYOR has sought to palliate the misdeeds of the
past four years, and have shown him how lightly
they estimate the public services he claims to have
rendered, by their refusal to permit solitary one
of his adherents to find seat in the Council. On
the other hand, they have accepted decidedly and
unequvocaly every measure which the last Legisla-
ture adopted for their relief. The Police Bill, under
which bitter partisans assured US that our liberties
were no longer safe, and the Election law,
to whose stringent provisions every INSCRIPTIONS
demagogue objected, have been now deliber-
ately approved by the people They have an
nounced their determination to uphold those
only who can be trusted honestly and i'm
partially, to enforce the laws In refusing
to place in the executive or the legisla-
tive departments of the local government anv
single partisan of the authorities now in power
who asked their SURFACES, the citizens of
Baltimore have shown that they believe the
charges which we have 50 repeatedly brought
against the American party, in this city, to have
been, each and all Of them, substantially true
They have endorsed the accusations which i'm.
peached the integrity, efficiency and honor of the
Mayor, his coadjutors, his abettors and his ad-
visers. We presume now Mr.. SWAMI will
scarcely assert that the complaints to which he
would not listen have been altogether unfounded.
nor will he so arroganty assume, henceforth, that
majority of nineteen thousand of his fellow-citi-
Zens ever testified to the satisfaction with which
the public regarded his official conduct. That
these and only these were the issues before the
people, is proved not merely by the fact that they
had been clearly brought forward for months prior
to the election, but by the character of the vote
which decided them. IF the community had sun
posed that the personal qualifications of the candi-
dates party principles of any sort were matters
of paramount Importance in such o contest, it is
impossible to believe that public opinion would have
manifested itself with such unanmity in favor of the
Reformers in every quarter Of the city. The gen.
eral result might have been very much the same
hut certainly neither side would have carried all
the wards and almost every precinct. Some mark
of public confidence would surely have been be-
slowed upon one or two of the more respectable
men, who opposed the Reform movement and
some one ward at least would have declared for
the American party if the contest had been
other than it was. But the struggle was
rty and official corruption, and the people knew
1t. In reply therefore to the appeal made by the
adherents of the existing municipal administration
for popular support, the same response was made
them from all sections of the city. The counting
rooms and the workshops-the factories, the
stores and the Offices, all sent back the selfsame
answer. the whole twenty wards and seventy
live out of eighty precincts refused to endorse
the party that was lately so supreme. Federal
Hill was as prompt as the Eighth ward to re-
ject the miserable faction, and the same opin-
ions were expressed about it in Monument
Square and on the Causeway. Mr. SWAMI S
friends had only a few weeks before the election
re divided the wards, in order that their antici.
pated triumph might be more secure, but not
withstanding this they have been overwhelmed by
a majority far exceeding any that was ever
honestly given in Baltimore. And there i:
good reason TO believe that had the vote
been taken in even smaller districts than the pre-.
cincts, the reformers would have carried at leas
nine out of every ten squares throughout the city
whether they were located in its centre or upor
the suburbs. Nor can it be successfully asserted
that the vote on Wednesday fell short of wha
it should have been, and, therefore, did not fully
indicate the sentiments of the people. There ART
not at the outside, over thirty thousand voter:
within our municipal limits. The absurdty O
the calculation made by the Commissioners who
re-divlded the wards, and who set down the mum
Der of voters at 39,623, can be demonstrated
Admitting that one out of eight in the whole
population is entitled to vote-and this is too
liberal an allowance-then, accord ing to the
new census, We should have about 90 900
men here who voters. When, from this
number, we deduct all those who, from any cause
whatsoever, failed to appear at the polls, it is
evident that the 81 400 ballots cast on Wednesday
represented the full strength of our voting popu-
lation larger proportion of the whole vote
o. Baltimore will seldom, if ever, be brought out.
Thus, on the issues we have mentioned, and on a
full and fair vote of the people, and in every
quarter of the city, have the supporters of Mr..
SWANS administration been ignominiously de-
feated. The citizens of Baltimore have vindicated
their rights, and have brought those who BETRAYED
them to lasting shame. No one party has
achieved victory, bat the American party has
been utterly Inundated and DESTROYED The
results of Wednesdays election can bear no other
interpretations. .. ..