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

- a,sofv ona single Official act Of the Board
. Nth n will say that it imputes partisanship.
W. challenge it TO name one single oncer OF POI
,o Amounted or removed because OF his political
o,inions We challenge it TO prove one act of
sidisoyalty'' to the State or the nation, with
which il is prepared to assert completely on the
part of the Board or any one of its members. We
defy it to name one solitary case in which the
duties of the Board, or those of the whole force,
have not been discharged with the most rigid
impartiality, between all parties and the members
of all parties. If the American will stake its
reputation for veracity upon any one fact, or any
series of enumerated facts, by which it is prepared
to maintain its assertions that the Board Of Po-
lice have been 'wrong from the outset in not
religiously guarding molly devised system from
partisan uses and that the members Of the
Board have manifested "the determination to make
it a political machine" we will pledge ourselves
to demonstrate, that what may be so set up as fact
is either wholly and knowingly untrue, or wilfulIy
misrepresented or perverted. If ever there was
wholesale flsehood deliberately and Systematically
concocted and published in the face of commu-
nifty every man Of which testify to the contra
ry, the article of the american is, par excellence
that thing. If ever benefcent law was admins
tered, fairly and nobly, by day and by night, in
public and private Places on election-days and at
all other times, without respect persons or opin-
ion, it is the police law of 1860, now set aside
If ever community was bound, in simple justice,
to acknowledge the manly and answering integ-
rity of public servants, that acknowledgment is
due TO the upright and honorable gentlemen whom
| the venaity of the american is now striving to
| njure and traduce Never did any people sleep
in peace and confidence more thorough than have
! blessed our citizens from the moment that the Po-
lice Board and its officers took the place of the
ruffans whom the AmericaR and its confederates
have set to rule over us once more. In the midst
of all the excitements of our present national
troubles, rich and poor alike have thanked God,
that at least domestic tranquility would be
secure, so long constituted au horties were
| permitted to maintain their functions and uphold
and control their organized and admirable force
This confidence and this cause for thankulness
have ended for the time with the benefcent system
which has been illegally Withdrawn from US; but
that the purity and impartiaity of the Commits
sioners, SO long as they were permitted TO dis
charge their functions, are fully and generously
appreciated by our people, no man can doubt, who
keeps reputable company. When the American
in its editorial of April goth, called aloud upon
the people to rally around the authorities, upon
the ground that they were doing "their whole
duty" it either alsifed its convictions, or appre-
cated their motives and services as We do now.
When it summoned us all, upon the same occasion,
to shoulder the identical arms which were discover
ed at the City Hall on Friday last, and to march
outside the city to meet the invading forces of the
| Government, it was either false or craven or it
did not think now, that the possession of those
arms was "dsloyaty," or that the brave Marshal of
Police was other than "a loyal citizen" The
truth has not become falsehood in the mean
time, because the american desires to prostitute
ITSELF nor have the citizens of Baltimore lost their
sense ofjustce aud selErespect, because the An,i-
can unhappily does not know what such things
mean.
So far as we can learn, there is no division
OF opinion, among those whose opinion is worth
having, in regard to the dignity and propriety of
t be refusal of the Board to debase themselves and
the State of Maryland whose officers they are, by
unlawfuliy making terms with fragrant usurpation.
When the Government of the United States shall
cease TO trample on the law, it will resume its
reign, and bless us as before. Until then, the
responsibility for the consequences of its over
throw must rest upon those who are guilty of the
outrage, and upon the base conspirators who in
vlted 1t, and the corrupt partisans who hail and
defend its preparation.