The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-10

Our readers were, no doubt, gratifed, no less
than ourselves, at the voluntary withdrawal of
the very Incorporate memorial which was present
ed to the City Council, on Monday last, by the
"orkingmen's Committee. We are quite sure
that the language of menace and reproach which
IL adopted, did not represent, in any degree, the
feelings or wishes of the more intelligent and wor
thy of the classes for which it protested to speak
and we are equally positive that any movement
for relief upon such basis, would only result in
changing the universal sympathy of the commu-
nity, into an equally universal feeling of reproba
ton and resistance Hunger and distress have
undoubtedly the strongest claims upon all who
recognize the obligations of human brotherhood
and we do no more than justice 10 the excellent
citizens who represent our municipal government,
when we ascribe to them an earnest and sincere de-
sire to cooperate with their constituents so far az
their official duty will permit, in every becoming
measure of prompt and liberal assistance
to the worthy and deserving In afford
ing, however, to the unemployed an on
portunity Of labor, at the expense of Ne pub.
lie treasury, the City Councils are of course re-
strained, not only by the fact that they are deal
ing with what belongs to the community and not
to themselves, but by the controlling considern-
ton that the City Government was not estab-
lished the public almoner Whatever the
Councils can do legitimately, they are bound 10
do, of course; but when the attempt is made to
extract upon their fears, what their sense of pro-
priety forbids, and especially when the threat is
openly made, that if they do not give bread-at
the discretion and upon the terms of those who
demand THREAD will be taken by force in spite of
them, they will owe it to themselves and the peo-
pie they represent, TO make the most determined
stand, at the threshold, against any and every
such inadmissible and criminal pretension No
man who counselS any portion of the orkingmen
OF the city to a course so unworthy, and ulti-
maely so runous and so sure TO fail, can be other
tnan a demagogue and an enemy in disguise,
ana no puohc officer who would listen for mo-
ment to appeals from them, involving the alterna-
tive OF violence, would be worthy to occupy his
place. Men who are misguided enough to present
such issues forget that they are living in n COM
munity where the law is supreme and is now sure
to be enforced at all hazards. They forget that
the law is above all things-above the wealth of
the rich and the poverty of the poor-and that in
the supremacy of the law are involved not only
the safeguards Of property, but the dignity and
opportunities of labor the chances of industry and
i's rewards. In contest itb the law, they are
therefore assaiing their own permanent interests,
70 wen as mourning the immediate consequences
WIN "n,cn us arm is sure to visit every attempt
~ Inc suoyerson OF The public TRANQUILITY. We
=ie sufe, we repeat that the truly industrious and
worthy men among them have no real svmpatbv
with any such designs or declarations .nd 49,.
they are misled or misrepresented, as a class hv
windy and loud-mouthed charlatans, who are o.
certain to be out of the way, in the hour of resnon
sbiity, as they are sure to be violent and uosv.
while the season of talking lasts. Let the unem.
ployed members of the working community en-
deavor to bear with patience their share of the sa-
critics. which entailed, by this crisis, on all.
Iney can only mend their condition BY good tenn
POI, BY iortituds. by manly and vlrtuous modesa'