The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-01

The mendacity and meanness of the Baltimore
American have, we think, reached their cumi-
mating point at last. In lie-practice, at long
range, that journal may now be considered as
having fairly distanced the best performances of
the Sawyer cannon. After its article of Saturday.
upon ''our Police System" we should suppose it
might be safely entrusted with the preparation of
facts, for Col. VILLAGES reports, Gen. BUFFERS
p1oclamations, or even Mr.. Stewards letters and
dispatches.
In the article referred to- the american, as a
matter Of course, justifes the usurpation consum-
mated by Gen. BANKs on Thursday. That, every
body expected it to do, for Gen. BANKS is COM
handkerchief Of controlling military force,
and the american would burn incense to John
Brown, Nena Sahib or Soulouque, if either of
them were in the same place and had done the
same things. 1t bullies Col. KANE, as a matter of
course, also, for Col. KANE, being a prisoner, is
fair game; and if Gen. BANKS were a prisoner, the
American would impartially bully him in his
turn. So too it upbraids the Police Commission
ers for not at once appointing ga loyal citizen in
the place of the kidnapped Marshall and thereby
enabling Gen. BANKS to have the benefit of his
usurpation, without any of the responsibility or
Inconvenience. At this, no one who knows the
american can be surprised, either-cor it is obyi-
ously persuaded that the Board is finally sup
pressed, and it consequently feels itself free to
indulge those instincts which were illustrated in
its family, by the kicking of dead lion, as far
back the days of Esop. If therefore the article
of the american had confined itself to these mere
Developments of its own familiar and disreputable
traits, we should have felt it unnecessary to trou-
BILE our readers with any alluson to its self-degra-
dation.
NOR should we have regarded its patry
anu lhsihcere appeals to the Commission
ers 10 Withdraw their opposition" to the mill
tary authority, and accept 'the terms of compro-
mise offered" as needing any particular comment.
for the american only asks the Commissioners IN |
debase and iorswear themselves-as II ,vo,,1a;,
self delight to do, at a moments notice ware tho
case its own. But when any considerable iop,ra1 |
published in the City of Baltimore-no matter
how undeserving of credit or respect-has the
effrontery to say to the world, as the american
says in the article referred to- that the Board of
Police, by partisan administration of its Office,
has provoked, or even furnished a colorado
pretext for the outrage of Thursday last,
we feel it incumbent upon us, in vindication of
the common decencies of life, to fix the attention
OF the whole community upon the authors of SO
shameless and prohgate libel. From the day |
On which the police law went into active onera- |
ton, down to the hour when the Provost Mar
sbal informed the Commissioners of their forcIbls
suspension, we defy the american to point ON,
in its own columns, one single direct impeacb.
ment of their perfect integrity and impartiali- |
ty. If the game were worth the candle, we would |
undertake to 60 over the dreary calendar of the |
Americans own editorials, and find certificate |
after certificate, under its own hand, of the mis-
cradle falsehood of every insinuation, which it
now makes againstthe official purity of the Board |
and the fidelity of the Commissioners to their
sworn obligations. Wehere challenge the Anerj- |