The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-07


tests-~ths Ge.eTeas legal Ingenuity souid devil
by which It's perfect constitutionaiity Was triuni
phantly established, and its strict iegahty sane
toned by the leg islatiye and Judicial departments
of the State and asserts that the perfect fairness
and impartiality with which the law was admins
tered had exercised a material and sanitary IN
luence upon the prosperity OF the CITY, TO such an
extent that of all parties united IN praising the
act and its enforcement, and in regarding it as an
inestiinable blessing.
The facts attending the arrest of Marshal Kane
and the Police Commissioners, and Of the military |
occupation of the city, by order of Gen. Banks, |
are fully forth; asd the conclusion is arrived at
that the occurrences mentioned must be taken as |
the combined and deliberate acts OF the General |
Government in conravention Of the rights of Mary
land and of her citizens under the Constitution
The violation OF the personal rights of the citizen
involved in the arrest OF Col Kane and the Police
Commissioners is forciDly dwet upon, the facts and
the laws bearing upon them being grouped with
consummate skill. The only answer, the report
contends, which has been given to the petition of
the prisoners to Congress for speedy investga-
ton or trial, is the appropriation by that body of
sum of money to pay the illegal police; though
the decinaton of the President to furnish Congress
with the grounds of their arrest taci confession
that the arrest groundless and uniustifable.
Under these circumstances it is maintained to be
the duty Of Maryland to reassert those principles
of civil liberty which our fathers asserted with
their swords, and appeal to the whole country
since appeals to Congress are obviously futile
against those gross and violent usurpations of
which our State is made the theatre.
1t is no longer question of Union or Disunion,
but of constitutional right and civil liberty the
hand, and the annihilation of State distinctive.
ness, the establishment of military despotism, on
the other. The attempt of the General Govern
ment to interfere with the internal policy of any
State is so clearly violation of the Constitution as
| not to admit of doubt. The Police Commissioners
holding, therefore, their office under the Constitu-
| ton, exactly as does the President of the United
| Skaka thnD Al,
constitutional right or power to remove them, and
| the State of Maryland might with equal propriety
| appoint and pay the army of the United States as
for Congress to appoint and pay police force for
| the city Of Baltimore.
If the Commissioners guilty of treason or
of misprision OF treason, they guilty only as
indiyduals ano not officers, and as such mi ght
safely and justly bave been dealt with by the judi
| cial tribunals.
Failing thus to comply with the plain reuusi-
tons of the Constitution and of the laws, the Fed
eral Government has deliberately revoutionized
the fundamental principles of the Union The sutli-
cheney and the legality of the plea of 'fmilitary
necessity" is denied in TOTO and in its application to
States especially. 1t is a principle depending for
its legitimacy wholly upon bayonets.
The synopsis l furnish is but faint and meagre
one, necessarily so from the great length of the
document and my Inability to secure careful peru
sal fit. The argumentative points of the paper
have not attempted to present.
MIR. kessler presented today the petition of q
number of citizens of Frederick county PRAYING this
passage of law for the further protection of Slave
property, which referred to the appropriate
committee, together with petition from one hun
dred and thirty-fve citizens of Baltimore county
presented by Mr.. Ford, praying the pa ssage of az
act to prevent the driving of wagons and stock or
the Sabbath day throughout the State. The un
sophisticated petitioners of Baltimore county do
appear to have realized the truth of that fighter
ing generality" that there ono Sabbaths il
revolutionary times"
A bill reported by Mr.. Gordon, of Allegany, t,
amend the 253d section of article SO of the Code
General Laws, in relation to the bonds of Register
of Wills, was passed.
bill reported by Mr.. Scott for the relief of thu
} Northern Central Railroad Company, by authoriz
ing them to plead by way of offset or discount t.
any suit brought against them by the State O
Maryland, was ordered to be printed.
MIR. McCleary offered an order appointing a com
mittee to ascertain and report whether the seat O
Z. w. Linthicum, delegate from Dorcheste
county, not vacated by his acceptance of tn
office under the General Government of Postmaste
at Church Creek. 1t was adopted, after brie
colloquy between Messrs. McCleary, Holland an,
Linthicum.
Mr.. Pitts reported an important bill to add &
the Code of General Laws an article declaratory O
the rights of riparian proprietors on lands border
ing on the navigable waters of the State, whic
was passed after a short discussion, in the cours
of which Mr.. Legg, of Queen Anne's, reminded tn
House that the Oyster bill, which has since its pas
J sage so seriously operated against the popularit
of its advocates in the legislature was put through
the House as purely local measure, and that il
the title Of the bill there was no mention made q
oysters, or of water lands or aught else by whic
its true character could have been denoted DE
string to profit by that experience, he admonishe
the House to beware of hasty legislation, an
urged that the bill be laid over for one day and b
| printed.
Mr.. Pitts explained that the bill was altogethe
unlike the "oyster law" 1t had passed the Hous
at the last session, but was defeated in the Senat
by the friends of the "oyster law" Its true oh
= | stated tn Z a h
mail upon proprietors of lands bordering on nav
gable rivers.
Mr.. Briscoe, of Calvert also advocated the meas
ure, assuring Mr.. McCleary, in the course of hi
remarks, that there was ono trick in this blu
The bill provides that riparian proprietors sha
be entitled to all accretions caused by the natura
recession of the waters, and shall be entitled to ex
elusive right of improving in the front of thei
lands, provided such Improvement shall not inter
lere with the navigation of the stream; that n
patent hereafter issued from the land Office sba
prejudice the right of riparian proprietors; an
that no warrant issued from the land office sha
affect any land covered by the navigabe waters q
the State.
The Southern Rights men are about to enter ear
nesty upon the tall campaign; their caucus hel
tonight in the Senate chamber, was attended b
every member of that party. Their platform wi
in the simple woE9 Rtsge5 ar1 atP faI
desiring discontinuance of the war, and prefer
ring peaceful solution of the pending troubles
The State Convention under the auspices OF thi
| party lot tue purpose oil nominating candidate
for the State offices, which will be vacated in thu
fall, will be held in Baltimore on Tuesday, Septem
Der 10th.
The day of adjournment has been again post
poned. Monday and Tuesday were successive
fixed upon for that purpose by the Committee o
Adjournment, and were successfully abandoned.-
1t is said the committee will report in favor
an adjournment at noon Wednesday.
But little of any moment was transacted in tn
Senate to-day. The "Stay law originally pre-
posed by the Senate substitute for the origins
House bill now in operation, and which was amen
ded by the House in striking out one of the fiv
sections of the substitute, called up. The Sen
ate refused to concur in the striking out, &c, an
proposed a Committee of Conference to reconc /
the differences of the two chambers.
Leave was granted Mr.. Wariield, of Baltimore
in the House to-day, to introduce bill to so amen
the act of 1858 incorporating the Green Sprn!
Avenue Company, as to vest some of the privilege
granted them in the Commissioners of Druid Hill
Park, the result of which will be the coustructio,
of an additional and very extensive drive which
cannot fail to enhance very materially the attrac
tions OF that beautiful public resort.