The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-07


tests-ths &c. crest legal Ingenuity souid devise
by which It's perfect constitutionality Was triuns.
phantlv established, and its strict legahty sane
toned by the leg isatiye and Judicial departments
of the State and asserts that the perfect fairness |
and impartality with which the law was admins |
tered had exercised a material and sanitary IN |
fuence upon the prosperity Of the city, to such an
extent that men of all parties united IN praisng the
act and its enforcement aud in regarding it as an
inestimable blessing. |
The facts attending the arrest of Marshal Kane
and the Police Commissioners, and of the military
occupation of the city, by order of Gen. Banks, |
are fully set torth aEd the conclusion is arrived at
that the occurrences mentioned must be taken as
the combined and deliberate acts OF the General
Government in contravention of the rights of Mary
land and of her citizens under the Constitution.
The violation of the personal rights of the citizen
involved in the arrest OF Col Kane and the Police
Commissioners is forcDly dwelt upon the facts and
the laws bearing upon them being grouped with
consummate skill. The only answer the report
contends which has been given to the petition of
the prisoners to Congress for a speedy investiga-
ton or trial, is the appropriation by that body Of
sum of money to pay the illegal police; though
the declination of the President to furnish Congress
with the grounds of their arrest is tact confession
that the arrest was groundless and unustifable
Under these circumstances it is maintained to be
the duty Of Maryland to reassert those principles
OF civil liberty which our fathers asserted with
their swords, and appeal to the whole country
since appeals to Congress are obviously futile
against those gross and violent usurpations of
which our State is made the theatre.
| 1t is no longer question of Union or Disuuiou,
but of constitutional right aud civil liberty the
hand, and the humiliation of State distinctive
ness, the establishment of military despotsm, on
| the other The attempt of the General Govern &.
ment to interfere with the internal policy of any
State is clearly violation of the Constitution as
not to admit of doubt. The Police Commissioners
holding therefore, their office under the Constitu-
ton, exactly as does the President of the United
| peJthar (yOnDraSa fha has fba
constitutional right or power to remove them, and
the State of Mary land might with equal propriety
| appoint and pay the army of the United States as
for Congress to appoint and pay police force for
the city of Baltimore.
If the Commissioners were guilty of treason or
of misprision of treason, they were guilty only as
individuals, and not as officers, and as such might
safely and justly bave been dealt with by the judi
cial tribunals.
Failing thus to comply with the plain requisi.
tions of the Constitution and of the laws the Fed
eral Government has deliberately reyolutionzed
the fundamental principles of the Union. The sufi
cheney and the legality of the plea of ''military
necessity is denied IN toto, and in its application
States especially. 1t is principle depending fol-
its legitimacy wholly upon bayones.
The synopsis furnish is but faint and meagre
one, necessarily from the great length of th,
document aud my inability to secure a careful peru
sal of it. The argumentative points of the paper
have not attempted to present.
Mr. kesser presented to-day the petition of
number of citizens of Frederick county prayinp tn,
passage of law for the further protection of Slave
property, which was referred to the appropriat,
committee, together with petition from one hun
dred and thirty-fve citizens of Baltimore countv
presented by MIR. Ford, praying the passage of al
act to prevent the driving of wagons and stock OF
the Sabbath day throughout the State. The un
sophisticated petitioners of Baltimore county do no
appear to have realized the truth of that 'fgliter
ing generality that there are ono Sabbaths il
revolutionary times"
bill reported by Mr. Gordon, of Allegany, t.
amend the 253d section of article SO of the Code
General Laws, in relation to the bonds of Repste
OF Wills, was passed.
bill reported by Mr.. Scott, for the relief of tn
3 Northern Central Railroad Company, by authorz
ing them to plead by way of offset or discount t.
6 any suit brought against them by the State o
l Maryland, was ordered to be printed.
Mr.. McCleary offered an order appointing com
mttee to ascertain and report whether the seat
z. W. Linthicum, a delegate from Dorcheste
county, was not vacated BY his acceptance of tn
office under the General Government of Postmaste
at Church Creek. 1t adopted after a brie
colloquy between Messrs McClesry, Holland an
Linthicum.
Mr. Pitts reported an important bill to add {
, the Code of General Laws article declaratory @
the rights of riparian proprietors on lands border
ing on the navi gable waters of the State whic
was passed after short discussion, in the cours
of which Mr. Legg, of Queen Anne's reminded tn
House that the Oyster bill, which has since its pas
sage so seriously operated against the popularit
OF its advocates in the Legislature was put throug
, the House as purely local measure, and that i
the title of the bill there was no mention made
oysters, or of water lands, or aught else bv whic
its true character could have been denoted DE
string to profit by that experience, he admonishe
the House to beware of hasty legislation an
urged that the bill be laid over for one day and b
, | printed
Mr.. Pitts explained that the bill was altogetbe
unlike the "oyster law" 1t had passed the Hous
at the last session, but was defeated in the Senat
by the friends of the "ovster law" Its true oh
| stated, tha 81
mail upon proprietors of lands bordering on nav
gable rivers.
Mr.. Briscoe, of Calvert, also advocated the meas
ure, assuring Mr. McCleary, in the course of hi
remarks, that there was "ne trick in this BILL"
THE bill provides that riparian proprietors sha
be entitled to all accretions caused by the naturs
recession of the waters, and shall be entitled to ex
elusive right OF Improving in the front of thei
lauds, provided such improvement shall not inter
iere with the navigation of the stream; that n
patent hereafter issued from the land Office sba
prejudice the right of riparian propriet0rs an
that no warrant issued from the land office sha
ahect any land covered by the naVigabe waters
the State.
The Southern Rights men are about to enter ear
nestly upon the tall campaign; their caucus hel
tonight In the Senate chamber, was attended b
every member of that party. Their platform wi
be comprised in the simple WORD Peqee, and ,thaij
desiring a discontinuance of the war, and prefer
ring peaceful solution of the pending troubles
The State Convention under the auspices OF thi
party, Tor the purpose OF nominating candidate
for the State offices, which will be vacated in tn
fall, will be held in Baltimore on Tuesday, Septem
Der 10th.
The day of adjournment has been again post
poned. Monday and Tuesday were successivel
fixed upon for that purpose by the Committee Q
Adjournment and were successfully Abandoned
1t is now said the committee will report in favor
an adjournment at noon On Wednesday,.
But little of any moment was transacted in tn
Senate to-day. The "Stay law" originally Pre-
| " hn no Tub To- A.
House bill now in operation, and which amen
ded by the House in striking out one of the fiv
sections of the substitute, called up. The Sen
ate refused to concur in the striking out, &C. an
} proposed Committee of Conference to reconci
the differences of the two chambers
Leave was granted Mr.. Warield, of Baltimore
in the House to-day, to introduce bill to so amen
the act of 1858 Incorporating the Green Sprin
Avenue Company, as to vest some of the privilege
granted them in the Commissioners of Druid Hi
Park, the result of which will be the construction
OF an additional and very extensive drive whic
cannot fail to enhance very materially the attrac
tions of that beautiful public resort