The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-06
BALTIMORE.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE o, 1850

The american Of yesterday has the following
paragraph in its principal editorial column
TuE RAILROAD AND THE CATTLE TRApE'-one OF our
CITY contemporaries, which has assumed course OF per
,rt hostility to the management of the Baltimore and
Ohio copies and endorses attack upon it, from
he New York Tribune about its cattle trade. As this
subject is one interest and importance, shall
procure facts and statistics bearing upon it, and give
them to readers in day two being satisfied that
they will prove the injustice Of assang home inter
csts without due investigation upon the statements of
rival parties and those who are interested in railroads
The readiness of The american to assert that
THE EXCHANGE 'has assumed course of persistent
'hostility to the management of the Baltimore and
"Ohio Railroad its volunteering, in advance
of procuring the facts and statistics, an opin-
ion that we have done injustice to ''our home in
''terests and its extreme and eager haste to de-
fend mammoth money power, against our alleged
assault are all very characteristic. When LATELY TINS
whole community in arms against the CITY
Railroad swindle The american was the fast friend
of that concern. 1t denounced the Peoples char
ter especially on the ground that it contemplated
''business centre and double fare from one
extremity of the city to the other-a thing which
could not happen, it proclaimed, under the BRoCE
dspensation. Yet when that very impossible
thing has happened, and BROCK B. Co. charge
double fare continuous routes The american
very carefully abstans from 'tassaing' that grea
''home interest" We deny that we entertain, o.
have ever assumed, "a persistent hostility to thu
management of the Baltimore and Ohio Road
We have endeavored to maintain fair and impair
tial attitude towards that corporation, as well a:
Others of similar character, and have no doub
that we have done so. We deemed it our duty tc
oppose the management of both of our great
roads in their plans before the Maryland Legisla-
ture last winter, and the plans of both fell
through. The scheme of the Baltimore and Ohio
managers in particular by which it was hoped to
wrest the control of that work entirely from the
hands where it has hitherto reposed, we de-
nounced rs it misunderstanding alones among
the press of this city in so doing. We have also,
at the proper time, cautioned the community
against placing implicit confidence in any railroad
reports whatsoever. Our remarks were always
general, and could have caused none but a
''galled jade 10 ''wince'' while sound withers
need not have been "wrung." We have never
hesitated to express our appreciation of the
economy and accountability enforced by the
present management of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, and the ndomitable energy which il
has displayed under very trying circumstances
The acoeoed 'policy'' of this management
meets our views, for it has never failed
to announce, in season and out, its determine
ton to secure to this city the advantages of its
position. 1t is this policy precisely, which we
demand, and to which We hold those who SO
loudly proclaim it. 1t is only, therefore, when
facts come to our knowledge, indicating that way
hItc is 70 Al
main-stem of the road to its Western connec-
tions-and our city Itself, which has done and suf
tered so much to open this avenue of trade for her
own benefit, to Northern rivals-that we enter
our earnest protest. 'policy'' announced is
one thing-a ''policy" carried out another
With the former we have, as we have said, nc
quarrel it is to the latter that we have directed
our attenton-not in the spirit of fault-fnding
and captious criticism, but with a disposition to
make due allowance for circumstances apparently
anomalous, arising from complications created by
the competition Of rival routes. We are satisfied
that the matters in reference to the cattle trade,
stated by The Tribune and ourselves are strictly
true. If these be reconciled with the policy of
securing to Baltimore the advantages of her posi-
ton, we shall he sincerely gratifed and we there
fore await the "facts and Statistics ofthe "man-
'agement" of which our contemporary is to be
the organ, with decided interest