The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-04

We insert in another column, copy of certain
correspondence recently had by Marshal KANE a
the request of the Police Board of this city, with
Mr.. Superintendent KENNEDY, of the New York
Police. The association of the name of the latter
officer, with the malicious and absurd reports con-
corning the police authorities and people Of Balti-
more, which have been recently circulated by the
Northern press i'll CONNECTION with the hegira of
Mr.. LINCOLN, furnished an opportunity for estab.
fishing the falsehood and tracing the fabrication
of those ISLANDERS. We are glad that the Police
Board awaited themselves of the occasion, mas
much as the reply of Mr.. KENNEDY, though char
acterstic of his creed and latitude, puts an end to
all pretext for ascribing any foundation whatever
to the preposterous stories referred TO. With our
own community, the official and explicit denial of
the Board of Police, which we published a few
days ago, as to the fact of their having only in
tended TO send twenty men to the Station, &C., &c,
Of course needed no confirmation. The corrobor-
alton which Mr.. KENNEDYs letter now supplies
must reach the convictions, how little soever it
may avail towards silencing the falsehoods, of the
Republican press and party. He distinctly adj
mits. not only that he never attempted the imper-
Thence Of suggesting to the Board of Police the
sufficency or insufficiency of their preparations
or had anything whatever TO do with the ample
arrangements which they made for tie occasion,
but that on arriving in the city he found his ad-
vice was not needed, and did not therefore OBJ
trude it. He further states that instead of having
advised the change of Mr.. LINOoLN's route from
Harrisburg to Baltimore, he sent an express tele
gram, on February 3D. to Mr. WooD of the
Presidential party, advising them to go down by
the Northern Central Railroad as ''perfectly safe"
Nay, more, he bears voluntary and explicit testi-
mony TO "the orderly and good-natured character
''of the very large crowd assembled around the
t'Depot to receive Mr.. LINCOLN" In regard TO
the supreme nonsense of his having discovered or
traced an organized plot in this city to assassi-
nate the PRESIDENT elect, his disavowal is as ex-
plicit and ingenious as could be expected, from a
gentleman, who after saying that stolen report,
in the Tribune of private conversation, is
wonderfully accurate" goes on and Denies in
DETAIL every fact and statement which it attri-
butes to or connects with him.
So much for the fugacious exploit of the Presi-
dent elect. We have deemed the subject worthy
of this additional notice. not only because of the
Importance apparently attached to it by the organs
and representatives of the dominant political party,
but because appears to us entirely improper to let
any such imputatons upon the temper, character,
and government of our city, pass, unexposed,
to be quoted hereafter as history. There
is no knowing how much capital can be made,
when necessary, out of q falsehood which has been
left uncontradicted or disproved and when we
remember the currency which the Executive of
has Co.
similar SANDER, just as unfounded as the one now
under discussion, we do not choose to let the one
remain. 10 give countenance hereafter to the other.
But there is another matter, suggested by Mr..
KENNEDY's letter, which deserves independent
consideration. We refer to the admisson-or
rather the ostentatious declaration-of the New
York Superintendent, that he is keeping up sys
tenn of police espionage, in Baltimore and other cities
of the South with especial reference to existing
political troubles, and for use at 'some proximate
''day.'' When it is remembered that the police
force of New York is confessedly as much of a
purely Republican party organization as any Wide
Awake Club in New England, while in its legiti
mate sphere, as an official body, its functions are
as purely local as those of a New York Alderman
1t must be obvious that any extension of its opera
tons beyond the borders of the State to which it
belongs can only be for the meres and most illegit
innate party purposes. Over any alleged violations
of the laws of the United States by recruiting or
volunteering for military service, in the South or
elsewhere the New York Police can of course
have no Jurisdiction, even at home for it is State
police, having the State laws to execute and none
other. With any such movements, out of the
State of New York, it can have legitimately no
more to do, than if they were going on in China |
Or Australia. When therefore Mr.. KENNEDY has
the insoence to refer to certain alleged departures
Of desperadoes from this city, for the South, and
10 say that 'it has not appeared to him necessary
''to stop'' them, he not only is guilty of very
rhodomontade, which he will be
very shy of attempting to carry ont here, but
ne does something more. He illustrates, what
almost every development OF the last three
months has gone to show-namely--th what is
called az the North 'stickng to the Union"
reinforcing the laws, and standing by the Gov
''ernment," means really, usurpation by the
North OF the namei powers and functions of the
Federal Government, for Northern ends and MIR.
poses altogether and not Federal. He shows that
instead of the present being a question betwae,
he Federal Government and the South it ;s ono '
between the North and the South, the North BEING
disguised as the Federal Government. He a
hows that the Republican party, as a party
Is Northern State party-has not only
AIKEN charge of the interests of the Federal Gov
rnment, in the South, but has actually the te-
nerity to intrude its State officials into the South
into a dependent province, to protect the Fed