The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-07

We had hoped to be spared the necessity O
making any further allusion to Judge BONDS
conduct in the case on which we found ourselves
compelled to comment some ten DAYS since Blu
as he has thought proper TO recur to the subject
and again deliver from the bench a puerile TRADE
against the press, and also to deny the accuracy
of reports that We in common with many other
people, know to be perfectly correct, it is incum.
bent on us TO say at least q few brief words in
yndcation of our own position. In passing SEN
tence on Tuesday upon traverser who had been
convicted of cowhding man upon the street,
Judge BOND took occasion to refer to the remarks
he was reported to have made in the case ofMADI-
son, which, he said, had been incorrectly pub
lished. We will not discuss this point We have
especial reason for placing implicit reliance on
Judge BONDS recollections whether they relate to
events or motives, and, even if we had, we should
in this instance, feel obliged to yield credence to
the concurring testimony of the reporters and the
audience, who listened attentively to the opinion
IN question. We assert, therefore, that Judge
BOND has been neither unsupported nor misrepre-
scented, and his attempt to put new gloss upon
the language he then used is little less disreputa-
ble than the original offence. He is at liberty to
disregard newspaper reports" if he pleases or to
initiate his enlightened predecessor in any other
way that suits him, but he may as well under
stand at once that the press will not forego its du-
ties because of his Interpretations nor will editors
submit TO be cowhided whenever he insolently
suggests that the community would approve of
such proceeding. Public journalists have rights
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Responsibility has not altogether withdrawn itself
INTO Mayors offices, nor have all the honesty
anu truth eXtant, assembled the bench. There are
some upright and honorable men left in the coun-
Uy,Who report or write for newspapers, and neither
tue SheefS nor denunciations of offended officials
can induce society to regard them all as venal
ana hbellous. People" says Judge BOND,
would as soon think of taking the medicines
arrayed IN the columns of a newspaper, as they
"ouIu 10 apply the law set forth in their edi-
'oriais' While we are not conscious of having
COMMITTED any very gross blunders when we
nave endeavored to "set forth" the law, still it
may oe that we have erred in this respect and
nave thereby incurred the contempt of our
learned critic. If 50, we are sincerely DESTROYS
oI being taught better. We are willing to receive
instruction from any quarter. Though we have
JAILED to appreciate some of Judge BONDS impair
ual and luminous decisions, we will even be
gratifed 10 have from him such explanations as
lie will! condescend to give, of those cases which
we are unable TO understand. At the present
'iomeht we are perplexed to know something
"oout The law applicable to such offences as riots
anu assaults. We have observed that one man has
'eeu lhed fifty dollars for assaulting clerk in
our ONCE and threatening or attempting to shoot
l'h-'hat another has been fined one hun
urea dollars for taking possession of the polls
anu urlVing voters away at the muzze of the rifle
anu revolver-and that still another individual was
On tuesday fined one hundred and fifty dollars
lor simply cowhiding a person whom he sup
posed had insulted him. AS it strikes us that the
parties who were subjected to the least punish
"eht mad committed the gravest crimes, we are at
loss to understand the law as ''set forth by the
Judge OF the Criminal Court. The circumstances
surrounding the first two outrages were 10 our
knowledge far more aggravated than those under
which the last was committed, and as far as char
acter was concerned we cannot find that the per-
petrators OF the fifty and one hundred dollar
crimes have any advantage over the luckless ira
verser who was mulcted out of one hundred and
fifty dollars. 1t has been stated to us that the
party last named is in the Custom-Horse while
the other two are members of the political party
to which Judge BOND belongs. But as it u.s. of
course, impossible that he can be moved by any
such considerations as these, we are more than
ever puzzled to know how to explain to our read
srs the laws under which these men were severally
risd. A this isa public event. and not "pri-