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

We could not have desired more complete
verifcation of our comments upon the course of
The american towards the Reform cause and Mr..
Brown, than was afforded by the disingenuous
tone and petty spirit of its observations, yester-
day, upon Mr.. BRowN's response to its queries
concerning Druid Hill Park. The uncandid in
situations by which it endeavored to create the
impression that Mr. Brown had evaded direct
reply-while it half confessed, in the same breath,
that his high character rendered such an impua-
ton necessarily false-were entirely in keeping
with its habitual principle, TO derive all the adj
vantages of doing evil, while keeping up the de-
corous appearance of rectitude and responsibility
Its obvious aim, its article of yesterday anus
ingly illustrates, was to place Mr.. Brown in the
dilemma, of offending the advocates of the Park
by repudiating its purchase or losing the support
of The San, by recognizing the legality of the
measure. The american had no conception of
the fact that there is downright and straight
forward integrity of purpose. which is certain to
command respect, without regard TO concurrence
or difference in opinion, and it therefore did not
calculate upon placing Mr.. Brown, as it has most
effectually done, in that very relation to both
sides of the Park question which secures his opn-
ions and position from impeachment by either
We should not, however, waste words, except alta
moment like this, with anything so unimportant
and so well understood as the tricks of our
virtuous neighbor But we should not be
at all surprised if, in its issue of this morning.
it were to seize the last moment-when nobody
can reply to ito strike some unmanly blow or
other at the great popular movement for which,
at this time last year, it threw up its cap with all
the vocierous enthusiasm of a new and hopeful
convert and which it has for some time past de-
serted, because no one was weak enough to trust
it in the van. We should not be astonished if it
were to make its appearance, at this the eleventh
hour, in a maze Of platitudes and common-paces,
appealing TO conservative sentiments and ''our
'habitual moderation denouncing democratic
'endencies;' nsinuating Bipartisan animosites;''
flattering 'the commercial interests with which the
" American has always been identihed;' and
winding up with an appeal, direct indirect, to
| call good citizens 10 vote for Mr.. HINDEs, and
save from pollution the municipal sanctuary in
| which Mr.. SWAMI has made himself immortal
1t is barely possible that some consciousness of
lingering ability to blush may deter our neigh
tastic exhibitions so recently, on the other side
but it can hardly refrain from doing something, in
the premises, of which it ought to be ashamed
Possibly its better genius may persevere in
persuading it that the worthiest position
for '1eading commercial journal, such as it
processes to be, is to keep estensibly on the fence
till the last moment in the most important election
| which has ever involved the interests of the COM
munity, whose bread it eats-only helping the
wrong, in quiet way, and not striking at the
right except from behind a BUSH Only one thing
more it could do-and that would be to Jump
down from the fence and cry Huzza for Brown
We trust the Reform candidate may be spared such
calamity-though we confess we think the
chances are quite as good for that, any other of
the contingencies we have suggested.