The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-25

The Grand Jury of the United States District
Court was discharged on Tuesday morning, bav-
ing been IN session since the 5th of June Dor;o,,
this period it has been diligently hnn,iny -, TO
traitors who have committed overt oc,s oro;...
the Government, and the conspirators ,,hn how
been plotting rebellion. The results Of ;,s lahore
n"'' "ie'i altogether short Of the expectations of
'lo'e royal citizens who have so peisistently in
sisted mat many thousands of cur people have ac-
'uaiiy perpetrated downright acts Of treason, or
nave combined together for the purpose of over
throwing the Federal Government. A few resi-
dents of our city, not dozen in all, have been in
dicted for offences which no Court in Christendon
could construe 10 be treason, and the Grand Jury
has utterly Jailed to ferret out solitary member
OF the many dangerous secret societies about
whose existence IN our midst we have lsttarlv
beard so much. 1t will not be denied that tha
Grand jury has diligently and zeaously souobt
TO make good the charges which the partisons of
Mr. LINCOLN nave SO laVshly and recklessly pre-
lefreo against the people of this city, for the man
ner III which that body was brought together.
and the names of the persons who COM
posed IT. were guarantees that it could be relied
On to serve the Administration faithfully. Il wa,
| selected by Marshal appointed by Mr.. LINCOLN
himself, and who exercised simply his own dscre-
| ton III choosing its members. glance at the
names OF those who were thus called to DISCHARGE
the important duties of Grand Jurors will satisfy
the public that no traitor was likely to es:ape
through their connivance. The following is the
| list:
John seidenstricker, George Rogers, Andrew J.
| kaado phi. Edward B. Leach, Philip Hiss Sr Robert
Gathcart John Head. Sampson Cariss, D S Courtney
r. l"tiis Shaf.r, Joseph Matthews F.. A. &bbatt David
| Dreamer, W. W Maughlin James McDougaI s a!auel G
| Taylor, Israel Pierce, -. H. Grove Wm McPhail Thos
| Kelso, Wi liam j. Nichols, Nathaniel Holland, Charles
Goddard
About all the gentlemen here enumerated we do
not, Of course undertake to speak; but there are
some among them who could have been safely cal
cua'ed on to hunt down untiringly, and punish un-
scrupulously, any opponent of the Government
| against whom the semblance of a case could have
been trumped up. But are not left to coriscture
Oh this point, for we know that various members nj
this Grand Jury have with the utmost viudictveress
and pertinaciy, sought to subsantate tie CHARGE.
which have been levtlled so indiscriminat4Iv
| against hundreds OF our citizens The fact tha,
only some ten Or twelve persons have been in.
dicted-and these only upon the most frivolous
concerned-is surely enough TO satisfy the cos,n,,
nifty of the fasity of the accusations which baxf
been preferred By Mr.. LINCOLN partisaus, and tc
| cover the latter with shame and confusion. Rut
the circumstance which most couclusivey demon
strates the unfounded nature Of these CHARGES i,
the inability of the Grand Jury to discover any
just cause OF complaint against the Police Board
The members Of the latter have been. for week.
past denounced as traitors by the miserable fac.
| non which has never forgiven The suppression q
the rutlan clubs-they have been systematically
lpeiied by those servie journals which were won
| to profit by the frauds which were concoc,ed anf
consummated by those cut throats-they bav,
been deposed by the strong hand of the military
power, because Of their alleged reasonable acts
they have been dragged from their homes. and ar
bltrarily imprisoned in q Government fortress. T,
answer for the miSdeeds which had been laid f.
their account. Bat Grand jury which haf
every disposition TO -indlct them, has failed to &C
cuse them-it had the power 10 examine every
man in Baltimore, and it has not found one VIII,
Can give color to any charge against tleu,-it ha
been IN session during the three weeks Of tbei
confinement, and it has adjourned without maxim.
Solitary suggestion that tends TO crin1iDat
them. What more is needed 10 prove the basenes
Oh their caumnators, and to show The infauon
ana outrageous character Of the proceedings t
which the Government has yentured to resort?