The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-02

or an article. Such a course is as justifable as
it is customary, and we therefore reviewed The
Suns rhetoric, and did not pretend to assail its
logic. If its arguments had been worth hand |
ling, we fear our treatment of them would have
been as little to our contemporaries taste as were
our observations on its splenetic spirit 1t has in
its article of yesterday, presented afesh its views
of the question at issue, and they do not seem to
be, after It's meditation of many days, much
more luminous conclusive than when they were
first propounded. The objections of The Sun TO 1
the location of the Park, are, If we understand
its articles on the subject, that the place is remote
from some sections of the city, South Baltimore
being especially mentioned; and that the rich can
get there in carriages, while the poor will be COM
PEELED to use the abhorred passenger railway, and
thereby contribute to the Park tax As it was
conceded on all hands that the Park would be in
the suburbs of the city, the first objection would
have applied to any other SITE unless The San can
invent some plan of placing an object on the outer
edge of square or circle, without at the same
time Withdrawing it from the people on the oppo-
site side. Nor is it easy to comprehend the force
of the other objection. The rich would have
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the outskirts of the town, and the poor would,
when they visited it, have patronized the passen-
ger railway precisely as both classes will do
now. The San must surely have forgotten, when
it urged the Commissioners to locate the Park be-
tween the York and Hartford roads, that it was
suggesting a situation which was nearer to the
I" fashionable part of the city, than Druid Hill
and to which the mass of the people would
only find access by the cars upon routes yet to
be constructed. To whom Park at the
point indicated by The Sun would have been most
convenient, it does not say but it will scarcely
venture to insist that its recommendation was
made with a view TO the accommodation of "South
Baltimore" whose comfort it has apparently been
so DESTROYS to promote. With what grace, more
over, can it talk ofits consistency, when it was will
ing month ago TO cordially advocate" the pur-
chase of five hundred acres quite as remote
from the centre of the city as Druid Hill, and
now asserts as the 'chief and substantial ground"
of its objection to the choice of the latter that the
"peope are iniquitously and GENEROUSLY taxed for
its maintenance Would not the property
which The Sun proposed have been bought and
maintained also by the Park tax? 1t is really
refreshing under the circumstances, 10 see with
what GOODNESS and compacency our neighbor
pumes itself upon its uuselfshness and purity
But the bad humor and worse arguments of our
choleric critic are not the only matters which re-
quire some slight notice at our hands. The Sun
infers from our article that q THE EXCHANGE has
abandoned the defence of the people in the mat
ter of the City Passenger Railway outrage"
nd = nj, 10 trio IF tba
''press which bodies no good to the people"
What this mysterious intmation means we are at
q loss to know. But lest we should be placed in
a false position by its nsinuatiops we take occa-
sion TO assure our readers that we have changed
neither our opinions nor our attitude with regard
10 that iniquitous business. We oppose it now
as we have done heretofore with constancy
and moderation, rather than with insane violence.
We object to the Park tax because we think it
was fraudulently imposed upon us. We are
DESTROYS to see the ordinance repealed, and all
the parties connected with the transaction pun
shed. But the Railway is down and we ride on
1.-THE tax is levied and we pay our share of it.
While we, like The Sun, have always advocated n
Park, still Park was to be bought whether VIC
wanted it not and satisfied that the best site that
was procurable has been selected we approve the
action of the Commissioners. In all this we have
been consistent and straightforward We could
not by any measure we ever advocated, have
promoted our individual interests, and we have
never sought popularity by appealing to mems
more ignoble instincts. Until The Sun can say
as much, it ought not to trumpet so vociferously
its devotion to the people and its unselfsh regard
for the welfare of the whole community.