The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-06

ii there were no other sufficient reason why the
conservative vote of Maryland should be cast
against Mr.. BELL to-day, we think that the citizens
OF Baltimore should find q conclusive one in the
iact that the BELL and EVERETT party as an organ
izd'loh, Is with few patriotic and honorable ex-
cepuons only the discarded and defeated Know
Nothing faction, covered with the disguise of q
he" and reputable name. Wherever lis meetings
assemble, the leaders and speakers who attract
tneir applause are for the most part the same est-
maoie gentlemen, who for the last few years have
peen most active in attempting TO flsten on this
state the odious yoke which it has cost orr peo-
pie so much labor and danger to break. Let anv
candid and impartial man go over the list. wber.
ever he sees it, and determine for himself whether
anything really elevated conservati tive can come
from counsels which they rule. In the rapid suc
cesson OF events and the excitement of the PASSING
moment, our readers may perhaps have forgotten
the State Constitutional Union Convention of
April 10th, in this city, in which tie Hon. THOMAS
oWANN, the bean ideal and incarnation of "Amari-
can sentiments and practices, filled so large
space That distinguished gentleman an
peared at Carroll Hall, on the occasion, with Gre.
dentals in His hand from the constitutional
Union City Convention" and the american CITY
convention both-but as the body which he adj
dressed was, as he said, ''to be national in its
character he preferred being received under his
constitutional Union" colors The Convention
thought differently and resolved to admit him and
MT. ROBERT SULLIVAN, expressly on the ground of
their being members of both delegations. To
Tie contestng delegations they gave five votes
each. The Baltimore delegations then retired, on
Inc motion of COLEMAN YELLoTr, ESQ, likewise
prominent and conservative constitutional
Union list, at this moment, under the new NOM
ehciature-for the purpose of q ten minutes con-
sultallon AT the end Of that patriotic council.
mayor SWAMI reported the cordial acceptance by
the Constitutional Unon' delegations. of the
resolutions as adopted, and then proceeded, more
$40, to address the company. He told them
how he was "the disfranchised representative of
Baltimore, by means of the Police Act but as
sured them ''the day of retribution would come"
lie yowed-'l will meet this question and have it
decided at another tribunal-the ballot-box.u
Yes, ne exclaimed, II will meet them at Phil
ippi!' ''We will show Them said he, 'sthat the
people Will repudiate their acts. speak exctedly
on this subject. It is because feel so. Let the
opposition be united and the triumph aciU be sure.n
Dir. WILLIAM ALExANDER-now unbappilv astrav
IN the LINCOLN fold-spoke for the Temperance
Temple set, and accepted the COMPROMISE of the
resolutions in their name, "for the sake of har
mony, peace, and with desire of presenting an
'unbroken front to the enemy" Under these
auspices, and with this blessed reconciliation.
the Convention proceeded to ballot for eec-
toral candidates to carry out the patriotic
purposes over which "Carroll HalP' and
Temperance Temple had kissed like right
eousness and peace. The electoral ticket for
which conservative men are called to vote TODAY
as the Constitutional Union" ticket one and on.
iy, is the ticket then and there chosen. Need
more be sad? Are the conservative people of
Baltimore prepared, to-day, TO muster Eat Philip
pl, /" in order to aid Mr. SWAMI in fastening "the
day OF retribution?" We put the question not |
merely to men really patriotic, whom the name as.
sumed by the followers of Mr.. BELL may fascinate
and delude, but to the supporters of Mr. DOUGLAS,
equally patriotic, who are persuaded and tempted
under the stimulus of that excitement against Mr..
BRECKENRIDGE, to cast their votes for Mr.. BELL,
in order to disparage the object of their hostility.
",
in any event. and the votes of the friends of Mr..
DOUGLAS with the rest, will they allow their suf- |
TRACES to be won by a party, by whom DOUGLAS |
and BRECKENRIDGE men alike are denounced, in |
the language of Mr.. SWAMI, on the occasion re-
ierred to, as "the common enemy2" Ev- |
erybody knows, and no one better than Mr. |
SWAMI, that in the issues to be tried to-day, the |
merits or dement's of his administration and of |
the measures OF Reform which have enabled the |
people 10 overthrow it, have no more real part or
lot than they had in the election for the an
nexation of Naples to Sardinia But no one |
who knows Mr.. SWAMI and his party can fail to |
know, likewise, that he and they will vigorously
claim from it, Notwithstanding, whatever comfort |
It can be tortured into bringing them. We pro- |
test, therefore, that no of sense or conserva-
tism should permit himself to be mised into Civ
ng countenance to such scheme of false pre-
fences