The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-28

We need not refer any citizen of Baltimore to
our record of the events of yesterday. If there is
any man among us into whose mind and heart
they have not sunk deep, already, it is because
nature has endowed him with neither. The pow
ers which rule over US may press, still further, as
doubtless they propose to press, the vndctive and
brutal harshness of their domination, but SO far
as our humiliation is concerned, they have moth
ing left to do. The rights and liberties of our
people are at an end, with the laws and constitu-
ton which secured them to us. Our statute book
is compressed into proclamation, and Provost
Marshal is our master We have but to exchange
the anthems of our freedom fer God save the King
We presume that no intelligent reader requires
his eyes to be opened to the shallow weakness of
the pretences under which the long-gathering
conspiracy against city has at last disclosed
its purposes. The charge against the Marshal of
Police, that he Eat the head of an armed force
'hosie TO the authority of the government, and
'acting in concert with its armed enemies, u is too
transparency preposterous to deserve discussion
1t is simply getting up fictitious military ex-
igency, in order to cover the iniquity of
usurping military Intervention. If the charge
was even reasonably probable, the mere sugges-
proof, would have secured the instantaneous re-
moval of Col. KANE, by the Police Board,
from the station he would then have been unfit
to fill. If General BANKS had not chosen
to resort to the Police Board, the grand jury OF
the District Court, in session now and crow
ded with swift witnesses, would have furnished
him presentment for high treason in an hour, if
he had the slenderest thread of truth upon which
to hang his accusation. The law of the land af-
forded him remedy, speedy, ample and over
whelming; and the fact that he has not chosen to
resort to the law, but has had recourse to military
violence in its stead, of itself establishes, beyond
peradvenure, that his accusation is pretext and
fiction.
But even if the allegation were well founded
against Col KANE, why supersede the authority
of the Board? against the gentlemen who COM
pose it, not even the proclamation itself breathes
syllable of complaint or suspicion. No man in
this community, who has the slightest regard for
the TRUTH will venture to mpeach the perfect in
tegrity, impartality and success with which they
have discharged their important and most difficult
duties. There is honest man among US
who entertained a doubt, yesterday, as to
their continuing intention and ability to
preserve the peace of the community and
protect the lives and property of our people
They are swept away from the places they have
filled with honor-as the Marshal is removed from
the station in which he has commanded the SYM
pathy and respect of all good mentor the simple
and only reason, that it is the policy of the gov
eminent to overturn the laws instead of enforcing
them and to establish its unprincped partisans in
power, by usurpation and force. If any man doubts
this, let him go to the Office of the Provost Marshal
or look at the once familiar faces of the outlaws
who have already supplanted the police force, and
obtained control of the town. Under such vista
tons, the severest OF human duties is forbearance
Yet our people must forbear. We caution and
entreat ali good men to remember themselves
instead of the outrages which are put upon them,
and to offer no pretext for further wrong, by
giving way to natural resentment. To-day is
not all of time, and of things such as these there
will surely come an end. Let them not delay its
coming by rashness. Every act Of oppression is
a seed of retribution, and GoD cares for the
riobt